ENVE works in fields related to the European Green Deal, which include the environment biodiversity, circular economy, zero pollution, climate change, energy, and space policies.
The COVID-19 health crisis has brought about an unexpected change in the way we get around, and this has had a major impact on the public transport sector: the drop in carrying capacity could completely undermine efforts made in recent years to promote sustainable mobility by driving people back to their cars, unfortunately resulting in an uncontrolled increase in traffic and pollution.
Bologna has therefore decided to push active mobility: its urban plan for sustainable mobility will steer the planning and implementation of emergency measures, in order to make bikes more attractive than cars, effective immediately.
Based on the guidelines of the bike plan ("biciplan"), the emergency plan for bike mobility aims to adapt roads to the needs of cyclists. This will have little to no impact on road infrastructure, using primarily:
- one-way cycle lanes;
- priority for cyclists;
- speed restrictions designed to create lanes for both vehicles and bikes, with signs which will flag up the presence of cyclists.
Bologna also plans to bring forward the delivery of around 10 km of cycle lanes initially planned for 2021. The contract for a further 13 km of new cycle lanes has already been awarded and the lanes are now being developed: they should be ready in 2020-2021.
