In 2010, the Municipality of Bologna will join the European Mobility Week for yet another year. From the 16th to the 22nd of September, many initiatives and events will promote sustainable mobility and present plans to the citizens.
The focus of the 2010 programme is represented by the two days of events dedicated to the promotion of sustainability by the Municipality of Bologna. This effort is in collaboration with public and private sector, and aims to spread the message of sustainable consumption and lifestyles. Such events, dedicated to healthy and sustainable lifestyles, will be held in the compound of Piazza Maggiore and Piazza Nettuno (the two main and most lively squares within the city centre). Several initiatives will be proposed to citizens and stakeholders around the city during the entire week.
The events will focus on cycling, walking and public transport use: new services and opportunities to practice sustainable mobility, with the central theme of matching the edition of European Mobility Week (“Travel Smarter, Live Better”). To this purpose, events focused on mobility and transport matters will be strictly connected to initiatives mainly focused on the promotion of physical activity, obesity tackling and periodical health checking, as described on the list of events that will be proposed:
15th of September (preview)
- Ice Creams and Cycle Lanes: Opening cycling – in cooperation with the cycle Association Bike Group Monte Sole. Departure at 8.15 pm in Piazza Maggiore.
16th of September
- Presentation and promotion of more sustainable means to move in the city: New opportunities will be presented related to compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) vehicles and electric bicycles; exhibition in Piazza Maggiore of environment friendly vehicles being part of the public fleets (Municipality, Municipal Police Dept., taxi and local transport company - CNG bus and trolleybus).
18th – 19th of September
- Info Point: During these two days, an Info Point presenting services promoted by the Municipality of Bologna will be placed in Piazza del Nettuno to give people information on urban mobility services and opportunities in the city, and to foster sustainable mobility, energy saving and efficiency, and sustainability in general. Dissemination and promotional materials will be distributed.
- Customised mobility manager: Through the Info Point, an information service will be activated to help people to identify the best home-school or home-work connection by bicycle. The aim of such service managed by the Municipality of Bologna is to answer the cyclists’ questions, to support them in their everyday movements and to boost the use of bicycles.
- Safe cycling: Safe riding course for schools, children, and families will be provided by the Bologna Municipal Police Department. Children on bicycles will be guided by Municipal Police officers through a cycle path designed in the middle of Piazza Maggiore. Officers will explain the meaning of road signs, the basic traffic rules and the basic principles of a safe riding. At the end of the short course children will be prized with a symbolic driving license and gadget.
- Pasta laboratory, martial arts essay and children point – playing with Environment: Several initiatives will be proposed by the Municipality and associations to involve children and their family and to promote more sustainable and environmentally friendly behaviours.In 2010, the Municipality of Bologna will join the European Mobility Week for yet another year. From the 16th to the 22nd of September, many initiatives and events will promote sustainable mobility and present plans to the citizens.
- La Ricicletta – bicycles with a recycling laboratory: People will be shown how to make objects (even a bicycle!) only using recycled materials.
- Bicycle workshop and self-repair corner: Free check-up for bicycles and application of an anti-stealing registration mark will be offered for free to attendees. Mechanics experts will teach people and children how to make little repair themselves to their own bicycles.
- Try electrical bicycles: In collaboration with Trade Association can, several electrical bicycle models will be exposed and put at citizens’ disposal for a short ride.
- Bicycles auction: An auction of second hand bicycles to prevent the rise of the stolen bicycles market will take place in Piazza Maggiore. The event will be managed by a University Student Association, “L’Altra Babele”, in collaboration with the Municipality of Bologna. The bicycles on sale through auction had been abandoned and found around the city: such bicycles had been duly fixed by the Association before the auction and will be assigned at a symbolic price. Winners will be provided also with cycle safety tools (lights and ring), brochures about road safety and other promotional and dissemination material and gadget.
- Cycling between Districts: In collaboration with the cycle Association Consulta Bici, several groups of cyclists will start cycling from different districts of the city and they will all meet in Piazza Maggiore at 11.00 am.
- Ice Creams and Cycle Lanes: In cooperation with the cycle Association Bike Group Monte Sole. Departure at 4.30 pm from Piazza Maggiore. On the 19th of September, the city centre will be closed to private vehicles access (to be confirmed).
20th - 21st of September
- Bicycle workshop addressed to the Emilia Romagna Region and the Municipality of Bologna employees: In the framework of Mobility Management, strategies will be put into practice by the two Public Administrations: a free check-up for bicycles and application of an anti-stealing registration mark will be offered free of charge to employees of Emilia Romagna Region and of the Municipality of Bologna. Information material and gadget will be distributed to promote sustainable mobility and healthier behaviours.
22nd of September
- Sustainable Mobility Meeting: Conferences and workshops open to citizens and stakeholders will be dedicated to the promotion and information about improvements, new services and opportunities in the theme of mobility management and car-sharing.
- Car-sharing happy hour: Technicians and experts of car-sharing will meet citizens and interested people in a very friendly contest, to talk about the services offered in Bologna, to explain the opportunities and receive the users’ feedback.
- Ice Creams and Cycle Lanes: Closing cycling – in cooperation with the cycle Association Bike Group Monte Sole. Departure at 20.15 pm from Piazza Maggiore.
26th of September (post-event)
- Heart Gazebo – In the framework of the event “Heart and Memory Path”, managed by the Municipality of Bologna: An initiative will be strictly linked to the European Mobility Week. At the end of the several cycling events carried out during the EMW, attendees will be provided with special tickets that give them the opportunity to receive a check related to the heart and blood vessels on the 26th of September, on the occasion of the Celebration for the World Heart Day.
Contact:
Mauro Borioni
Comune di Bologna
Settore Mobilità Urbana
Tel.:+39 051 2195850
mobilitymanager@comune.bologna.it
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