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The open streets of the pandemic reclaimed public space for pedestrians and bicyclists. From Bogotá to New York to Stockholm, some of those changes have become permanent. 
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Great news from Romanian capital: several downtown streets closed to cars and opened to pedestrians on weekends, with the goal of creating more promenade areas in Bucharest. This action is called “Open streets” project and it took place this weekend (May 29-30). Mayor of Bucharest Nicusor Dan said on social media: “This project is an …
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The Catalan capital’s celebrated pedestrian-first zones are expanding to cover most of the city center, Mayor Ada Colau announced.
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In May, the Greek capital embarked on an ambitious plan to transform its traffic-clogged downtown with bike lanes and pedestrian walkways. But things didn’t work out as planned.
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The Austrian capital of Vienna installed nine additional, but temporary pedestrian priority zones to ease conditions for walking outside during restrictions related to the COVID-19 crisis. Four of these “encounter zones” (Begegnungszonen in German) opened on Good Friday, this year and five more are planned to open in the week after Easter. The zones are in response to the national COVID-19 measures to close large national parks in Vienna and enforce a minimum distance between individuals of one metre and encourage people to stay at home except for essential activities nation-wide.
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The share of journeys made by car in the city has fallen by nearly half, and the trend is only accelerating. Peter Yeung discusses the trend in Paris in an article on the Reasons to be Cheerful website. Cars Are Vanishing from Paris Bright parasols, wooden sun loungers and expanses of golden sand suddenly…
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The Catalan capital’s celebrated pedestrian-first zones are expanding to cover most of the city center, Mayor Ada Colau announced.
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The Mayor of Zaragoza, Jorge Azcón, accompanied by the Minister of Infrastructure, Patricia Cavero, has visited the works that are being carried out in Violante de Hungary, confirming the commitment to improve Zaragoza streets in 2021 and make the city safer and more accessible. In this regard, he explained that next year the city will …
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Thousands of miles of new protected bike lanes, cycle training and bikes available on prescription will be rolled out under new plans to overhaul cycling and walking in England.
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