The F11 cycle highway connects Antwerp (520,000 inhabitants) and Lier (36,000 inhabitants) in Belgium. As many other Flemish cycle highways, this 12 km route is...ECF takes a look at the F11 cycle highway bridge over a TEN-T railway in Belgium as an example of EU funding being well spent. Costing just over than €2 million, the...
Italian-British couple, Arianna Casiraghi and Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope, along with their dog Zola, cycled 7,237 km to draw a huge shape of a bicycle across the m...Cycling couple break three world records for largest GPS drawing, aiming to raise awareness for cycling's effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions and to build politica...
The F3 cycle highway connects Leuven with Brussels, following service roads built as a part of a railway upgrade in 2006. But as the cycle highway was not part...Recently opened section of F3 cycle highway costs a record €32.5 million, a price tag which highlights exactly why cycling infrastructure needs to be considered from the...
There is a long-standing superstition that cycle tracks should not be built alongside motorways. But the experience of administrations who have dared to think d...ECF uses the case study of the F203 cycle highway in Brussels to demonstrate the advantages of building a cycle track alongside a motorway, while also highlighting the be...
On 14 December, the European Commission presented its “Efficient and Green Mobility” package with revised legislative proposals on the Trans-European Transport Network (T...
On 14 December, the European Commission presented its “Efficient and Green Mobility” package with revised legislative proposals on the Trans-European Transport...ECF, CIE and CONEBI welcome the European Commission’s “Efficient and Green Mobility” package, which elevates cycling to a priority level across the whole European Union,...
“How much will it cost to build a network of cycle routes?” is a question frequently asked to the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF). Recently even more so wit...The price tag on a cycle track can vary greatly from under €50,000 to over €10,000,000 per kilometre. Why is that? What elements influence the price tag on cycling infras...
For over twenty years the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) has been a cornerstone of EU transport policy. It should come as no surprise therefore that E...
At their joint informal meeting today, the Transport and Environment Ministers of the EU have announced the Graz Declaration on “Starting a new era: clean,...