movement and professional work bucharest, romania
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Movement and professional work
Bucharest, Romania
Traffic
Bucharest cyclists have problems with...
Foto: Bast
Street dogs
Bucharest cyclists have problems with...
Foto: Bast
Pollution
Bucharest cyclists have problems with...
Foto: Bast
Infrastructure
Bucharest cyclists have problems with...
Foto: Bast
The Mayor
Bucharest cyclists have problems with...
The cycle paths completed in 2008
and 2011 were established only on
sidewalks and turned out to
be very expensive and unsuccessful
experiments.
Until October 2012,
the Police Traffic
Division had already
declared illegal so
many paths that their
length exceeded 100
km out of the 117 km
manged by the
Bucharest Streets
Administration.
On March 11, 2013, the Mayor
announced that he refused to lay down the cycle lanes on roads and that he supported cycle lanes exclusively on the sidewalks.
The Community of Bucharest’s Cyclists:
We don’t WANT cycle lanes
on the sidewalk !
March 23rd 2013 – Protest march:
We don’t WANT cycle lanes
on the sidewalk !
There were only 4,200 people.
But it was
the largest bike protest in Romania
Foto: Loading Studio
But the Mayor decided to ignore cyclists
and experts. He wants more traffic.
April 12, 2013: The Mayor announced value of the the investments for the
road infrastructure of his dreams: 13 billion Euros !
With the current city income, the infrastructure planed by the Mayor
would be ready in 40 years.
Bucharest will be buried in debts in order to get buried in concrete.
In 1900, the Mayor’s
plans would have
been visionary!
But we live in 2013…
“If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic.
If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.”
Citizens’ Campaign requestingpublic information about illegal cycle lanes.
The Mayor
refuses to
provide this
public
information.
Foto: Bike Lover
Translation: “Mr. Mayor told me that if I collected 10,000
likes on facebook, he would give cycle lanes"
Translation: ”We don’t like cycle lanes on the sidewalk !”
Translation: “I can’t wait to see their facesafter I make cycle lanes over here!”
Foto: Virusbike
Currently Bucharest has no viable route with cycling lanes for the
city's thousands
of bikers.
PROTEST IN PROGRESS