On 2 October, hundreds of cyclists convened in cities across Greece for demonstrations organised by the Hellenic Urban Cycling Federation. The demonstrations in...Hundreds of cyclists gather in Athens and other cities for demonstrations organised by ECF Member Hellenic Urban Cycling Federation. Protestors demand the government move...
The possibility to observe and cross-analyse cycling infrastructure from different countries would be a huge benefit to understand and improve cycling conditio...ECF examines how OpenStreetMap can help us learn about cycling infrastructure from around the world, providing a brief introduction to the database and an overview of exi...
Between the 27-28 September, the City of Gdansk and PUMA hosted the 11th Active Mobility Congress. It was another edition of the most important Central-Eastern...The City of Gdansk, a member of our CRC network, together with ECF Member, the Polish Union of Active Mobility, hosted the 11th Active Mobility Congress in...
What does the future hold for Dublin as a cycling city? On Friday 23 September, ECF CEO Jill Warren was a keynote speaker at Cycling Solutions Ireland’s “Busine...Jill Warren awards Ireland’s Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Philip Lee LLP with a gold Cycle-Friendly Employer certificate for their commit...
The Flemish cycle highway network in Belgium is the most comprehensive plan to connect cities, towns, suburbs and workplaces across the whole region through hig...ECF looks at the Flemish cycle highway network to highlight the crossover between cycling and TEN-T infrastructure. 49% of the network interacts with TEN-T, emphasising t...
Friday 16 September marks the beginning of European Mobility Week, the European Commission’s flagship awareness-raising campaign for sustainable urban mobility....Car-free Sunday returns to Brussels on September 18, highlighting the incredible impact that reducing the amount of cars on city streets has on both air and noise polluti...
In August 2022, the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility published the General Plan of urban and extra-urban cycling mobility 2022-2024. In line...Persistent efforts and coordination by ECF Member FIAB pay off with the adoption of a cycling plan at the national level. As outlined in our previous report, cohesive gov...
Perhaps the most undervalued and least sexy of the various bike infrastructures, bicycle parking is becoming more and more of an interest to public authori...Our CRC Network Member, Rotterdam, is implementing an innovative way to sway public opinion in favour of bike parking. This clever idea is a reminder of the key role bike...
Ghent, the host city of Velo-city 2024 and the newest member of ECF’s Cities & Regions for Cyclists (CRC) Network, has a long history of cycling and an exci...ECF welcomes the City of Ghent to Cities & Regions for Cyclists, a network that brings together local and regional administrations actively working to promote cycling...
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 City of Zagreb is the capital and biggest city of Croatia, with a population of approximately 900,000 inhabitants, representing 20% of the country’s popula...ECF welcomes the City of Zagreb to Cities & Regions for Cyclists (CRC), a network that brings together local and regional administrations actively working to promote...
On 16 August 2022, a new circulation plan was implemented in the Brussels city centre as part of the Brussels Capital Region’s “Good Move” mobility plan. The ne...A new circulation plan in Brussels city centre aims to reduce traffic, creating more liveable neighbourhoods throughout the city. The plan is part of a growing political...