Promote Safer Cycling
8 Things Top Bike Cities Have Done to Promote Safer Cycling
There’s a lot we can learn from these triumphs in safe city design and bike advocacy
•Corner refuge islands: protected curb extensions for bicycles
•Forward stop bars: waiting areas for cyclists in front of car traffic
•Setback bike crossing: a buffer zone between bikes and car traffic
•Bike-friendly signal phasing: special lights to indicate when bikes should cross
trend in European cities is to ban cars from city centres to the benefit of pedestrians or cyclists.
EUROPEAN CITY CENTRES ARE SAYING NO TO CARS!
Banning or limiting car traffic in large cities has several advantages: it improves air quality, quality of life, well-being and also the city’s image.
To be successful, this kind of measure must be accompanied by ambitious plans to develop alternative means of mobility — public transport, cycle paths, shared mobility, pedestrianisation, electric cars, etc.
cities based on a clear and consistent definition of liveability
How Do We Create Liveable Cities?
A more liveable city is a great place to live. It is more resilient as well, with competitive social, economic and environmental advantages. Using our definition, a liveable city is also a healthy city, promoting health, well-being and equity.
Mobility overall is a human right
Could even say :
Safe Mobility is a human right
Today is the “International Day of Human Rights”
Brasilia Declaration
BRASILIA, BRAZIL (November 19, 2015) – The World Health Organization (WHO) released the Declaration from the Second Global High-level Conference on Road Safety: Time for Results.
“We also need to re-think mobility and prioritise walking, cycling and improved public transport as safer methods of transportation. Civil society and the private sector have crucial roles to play in working with governments to achieve these aims.” ( UN SG Ban Ki Moon )
“The health and transport communities are coming together to embrace a comprehensive approach to road safety that includes safer design as an important principle. In support of the Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 11, countries have stated clearly that improving public transport, walking and cycling are key to addressing traffic safety while reaching other development goals.” -(Claudia Adriazola-Steil, Director, Health & Road Safety for WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities)
It’s time to take the ‘cross’ out of pedestrian crossings
For as our streets were taken over by cars, so their walkability decreased, encouraging even more people to climb into cars instead.
bike-specific lanes are the safest place for bikes to ride.
bicycle culture contributes to public health
How Amsterdam’s wonderful bicycle culture contributes to public health
The Dutch get started in cycling at a very young age, and continue well into their golden years.
Reducing car use would bring health benefits to all
Reducing Car Use in London
There are many short car journeys made by London residents which could easily be switched to walking or cycling:
o 1.6 million car trips per day could potentially be walked.
o 2.7 million car trips per day could potentially be cycled.
If Londoners swapped motorised trips that could reasonably be walked and cycled, 60% of them would meet the recommended 150 minutes of physical activity per week through active travel alone. The population of London would gain over 60,000 years of healthy life every year which would deliver an economic health benefit of over £2 billion annually.
Streets to live 