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I'm an old couple and I'm a independent
consultant and I've been involved in the
process of improving promoting and
developing in cycling mobility in the
city of Seville you can see the
evolution of the second interval from
2005 to 2007 there were not really
functional back in two thousand five
pieces of backtracks today before the
infrastructure
you don't have anything it's like no
changes no infrastructure no women no
man no no one no one was by bike after
the infrastructure you can see everybody
using from all of the mothers kids women
everyone
people especially Paola guarding and
crossing of everealm came into office
from a political party to office in the
local government and would happen is
that they pushed their programs to go
build a whole network of cycling paths
and cycle lanes and they tried to
convince the mayor at that point and
they made a poll where they found that
eighty or ninety percent of the people
are great at that point with the
building of a cycling network so they
convinced the mayor with that data and
from there they started to invest in
this network and the government built
very fast and complete
the network and the see details
completely because we have at 0% of
like in the city and in few years we go
for 10%
we went from beginning no network to
this basic network cover maybe
kilometres all over the city all through
the city it was comfortable having just
one happy years the city's not lovely
now with bicycles and also it is it was
a big change in there in the landscape
of the city when you see that the second
level is something like a green strip
going all around the city and this is
very spectacular when the government
build this network there was a lot of
voices against the change but the people
start to use the infrastructure that
reduce the bad line and suddenly the
bike was a new element one of the tough
choices that we had to make is were to
place a bike path and we decided to go
mostly on road space previous road space
so this is the model that we chose on a
sidewalk level because we thought that
would give more perceived safety to the
people there were they will want it to
cycle and you have a sidewalk platform
and the bike path is on that platform
and this was previous parking spaces so
you can see where the previous sidewalk
was just looking up the tree line in
there are no parking spaces all along
the district without just the road and
particularly what interested me is how
the community responded to the
infrastructure with us put on place
because essentially you had a culture
that we're cycling riding bikes was just
not a part of what they did nearly zero
people regular people riding bikes - an
impressive number of folks writing I
think in the proportion of the total of
cyclists wish are women is much higher
than another city
because again is because of a
segregation of the bike lanes from
traffic in Seville we are very lucky
because there the 35% of the cyclists
are women and this is because to ride a
bike is something normal
it says something safe and it's normal
to see women in the bike lines or with
the chair in the back given a lift for
the kids
I think bike sharing initiative here is
very important because it's solving the
problem we have here related to where
can we park our bikes a lot of people
doesn't have a place in their houses to
park a bike so having a bike sharing
station next to their houses they can
use a bike one of the problems that we
have now in the network is that we have
so many cyclists that we need to improve
the quality especially on the pieces of
the network where we have to go cycles
we want to double the number of cyclists
in just three or four years and that
needs for the infrastructure to be
improved because you can see there that
was the old bike path and the sidewalk
there was an improvement actually but
we're not happy with that because we
have many interactions between
pedestrians and cyclists we wanted to
know is just quite from there to here
where you can see a wider bike path a
wider bathroom with the road and a wider
sidewalk so this is the improvement we
have we want to make all around the bike
network right now before anything the
sidewalk was just like this damage from
that wall to here and in the space we're
on top now used to be the bus lane so
that's from here to the curb or was
taken from broad space mostly parking
and but also traffic lanes large
proportion of cycles here not actually
going anywhere the retired people and I
using segregates of cycle lanes just to
take some daily exercise we are very
very happy when this is in an attitude
of happiness to right be basically the
on the city it's good for the health for
the friendship good for for all all
things we use the car in in a very bad
way I think for short distances into the
city is ridiculous so it was a big
revolution and now cycling becomes a
normal activity not a special clothes
very very few helmets very very few
leaked their garments
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we did something that no city had done
at the moment especially on the
Mediterranean area was to build fast and
an entire network the project was the
entire network
the city is surrounded by a metropolitan
area and almost the same number of
people lives metropolitan bringin in the
inner city so and in the metropolitan
range there is a very weak in front so
we need to expand smaller means that we
have to connect the cycling buoy
transportation because the distance are
being we have a lot of public parking
places for cars why don't we think about
building public parks for for bikes
it's normal to see a woman riding a bike
in the city but we would like to see
more because it is always a time in
other place in their marker in
Netherlands they have 50% why because
it's completely normal
the infrastructure is completely safe we
have to do more first we have to improve
the quality of network we have to do
more by pants where some neighborhoods
don't still have it and you know we're
trying to improve a lot and see what
happens in the
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