The European Mobility Week participation report came out a few days ago with
interesting facts about this top European action on promoting sustainable
mobility. European Mobility Week and the Car-Free Day are major awareness raising campaigns aiming
at sensibilising citizens to the use of public transport, cycling, walking and
at encouraging European cities to promote these modes of transport and to
invest in the new necessary infrastructures.
This year 2.268 cities participated with
an estimated population of more than 156 million people. The tenth anniversary
edition of the European Mobility Week set a new record again in terms of
participation – the sixth consecutive one!
As in the previous year, the cities
mainly focussed on:
- Mobility management, such as launching awareness-raising campaigns, elaborating educational materials, or developing urban mobility plans.
- Accessibility, such as lowering and enlarging pavements, removing architectonic barriers, or creating wheelchair ramps.
- New or improved bicycle facilities, with enhancements to both bicycle networks and facilities such as bicycle stands in public areas.
Even though it is a European event,
a lot of cities from countries outside Europe participated: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Taiwan, USA where amongst them. Unfortunately
no city from Australia participated in this promotional
event. Let’s hope next year Gold Coast will be the first Australia city to support Mobility Week.
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