Cycling street
The City of Bruges (Belgium) reaffirmed its ambitions to become a bicycle-friendly city by addressing a new challenge. After observing their cycle tracks gradually fill up with increasingly more bicycle users, the City decided that it was time to re-imagine their cycle network.
In August 2019 and within the framework of the European Horizon 2020 project, HANDSHAKE, the City called upon Copenhagenize Design Co. as well the renowned landscape architecture firm, West 8 and traffic company Vectris to help them design a new concept for their urban cycling network.
To elaborate a strategy, both qualitative and adapted to the needs of the inhabitants, the City of Bruge invited European mobility experts to join us during a seminar and nearly 100 residents during a whole day of discussion and workshops.
Respecting and enhancing the unique attributes of the historical city, the new vision includes innovative strategies to make the network more attractive and comfortable for bicycle users of all ages and abilities. Mayor Dirk De fauw : “We do realize that if we want to remain bicycle-friendly, our work will never be done.”
To discover the whole strategy for the City of Bruges’ cycling network 2.0, check out the brochure, which we created with the City and the partners on the project. Find it here in English and here in Dutch.
