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Best of 2021: Top 10 ECF news articles

2022 is almost upon us and with the holiday period now here, let’s take this opportunity to reflect on the events of the past year! 2021 was an eventful year fo...A round up of our most-read articles in 2021, including stories of successful advocacy, news from ECF Members, emerging trends in cycling and highlights from across the c...

23 Dec, 2021
A section of EuroVelo 10 and 13 along the Baltic coast in Kołobrzeg, Poland

How do you create a regional cycling network? By using EU funds, the Polish region of West Pomerania has succeeded in rapidly creatïng the backbone of...In only five years, the region of West Pomerania in Poland has created the backbone of an entire regional cycling network, with 800km of high-quality cycle routes – inclu...

19 Jul, 2021
F3 - a cycle highway along a high speed railway; photo credit: Province Flemish Brabant

The F3 cycle highway connects Leuven with Brussels, most of the time following service roads built as a part of a TEN-T railway upgrade. But several investments...

20 Nov, 2020

Road safety is a pressing issue in Europe, with over 25,000 deaths recorded on European Roads in 2019. Of these people an increasing proportion are cyclists, r...

22 Jan, 2020

The new Finnish centre-left government set its ambitions high when it took office in June 2019: by 2035, the Nordic country should achieve zero-carbon emissions...

23 Sep, 2019

The traffic circulation plan introduced in Leuven in 2016 increased cycling volumes by 32% in one year thanks to eliminating through car traffic from the city c...

24 Jul, 2019

(Image Credit: Sport & Citizenship) PACTE project’s Active Education Workshop was held in Berlin on the 21-22 February 2019, bringing together a diverse gro...

26 Feb, 2019

Up to 48 thousand cyclists per day cross Queen Louise Bridge in Copenhagen. We revisit Nørrebrogade on the cycle highway C95  to check how traffic lights w...

10 Sep, 2018

A new elevated section of the F1 cycle highway next to the Antwerp-Berchem train station bypasses two crossings with traffic lights, enabling faster and more co...

13 Aug, 2018

Car traffic can be “filtered out” on selected streets to create better conditions for walking and cycling, and at the same time maintain necessary access to eve...

24 Jul, 2018
Pieckelaan - old road turned into a cycle highway

Instead of cutting trees to widen carriageway, an old car connection between Nijmegen and Beuningen was turned into a cycle path. Now this tree-lined avenue is...

14 May, 2018

Where a road crosses a village, there is often limited space available between buildings. The reconstruction of Lodewijk van Veltemstraat in the municipality of...

16 Mar, 2018

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