Bicycle Workshop
In the first week of September 2004, 6th-7th,
18 persons from Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Sweden gathered
in Orebro to participate in a bicycle workshop, organised
by the city of Orebro and UBC Commission on Transportation.
 A
first bicycle seminar was held in Cesis (Latvia) in September
2002, and that time an idea was born to organise a smaller
working meeting for bicycle planners around the Baltic Sea
to work around concrete problems and questions. The main
problems for the new EU-member states are that cycling is
traditionally not part of the city transportation and the
infrastructure for cycling is very poor.
The first day started off with a presentation
of Orebro as a "Bicycle friendly city". Then the
National Road Administration presented a project where a
4 km long bicycle lane has been planned and built, as an
example of how you can handle all kinds of problems in a
city centre, along busy streets and in housing areas. In
the afternoon the whole group was taken on a bicycle tour
around Orebro to see and to test how that bicycle network
had worked in practice.
The day after was dedicated to the workshop.
Apart from a presentation of some practical examples from
Malmo, the group has had a lively discussion. Issues such
as a bicycle network, a need for single/double directed
bicycle lanes, safety, security, road signing, information,
marketing and influencing behaviour were treated.
The Commission on Transportation would like
to thank all participants and the City of Orebro for planning
and hosting the seminar.
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