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There are those who defined it as a "vexatious limit", those who spoke of a "demagogic proposal", those who instead presented it as "a new idea of ​​civilization".In recent days the debate has heated up on cities30, where the speed limit for all vehicles is set at 30 kilometers per hour:it is a new model that has already taken hold in many cities around the world, and which is now also appearing in Italy.To become the first major Italian city at 30 kilometers per hour was Bologna, which in 2022 approved the address lines for the implementation of the plan:the checks began on Tuesday 16 January, and with them the controversies.“I remember well that the first objections to the city30 were that 'the limits will not be enforced anyway', but if the controls are announced the Punic wars will break out”, said the city councilor Simona Larghetti, who had already worked on the first campaign since 2014 on zones 30.“Only in a coun...

Of Elena Colli, Matteo Spini, Jacopo Targa* “We die in Milan”, read the banners of one of the many demonstrations that have taken place in the city in recent months.Unfortunately, 2024 also opened with tragic news:Ivano Calzighetti, 37 years old, was hit and killed by a person driving a car while he was returning home by bicycle. According to open data on the victims of road accidents in Milan, in 2023 29 people lost their lives on the streets of the Milanese municipality.If you look at the number of collisions involving bicycles in the city, you notice that in 2022 the highest number of all the large Italian municipalities was recorded in Milan. For this reason, Milanese cycling activism has attracted a lot of attention in recent times:the numerous actions implemented to request greater safety on the streets of Milan - garrisons, human cycle paths, traffic blocks, "illegal cycle paths" - have attracted the attention of the media national and sometimes as well international....

Thursday 4 April The Institut Paris Région (IPR), one of the largest regional urban planning and environmental agencies on the European continent, has published a regional survey on the mobility of the French, from which it emerged that the majority of citizens now prefer to travel by bike rather than by car.In fact, although the car remains the first motor vehicle used in the Region, with a strong preponderance in the outskirts of the city, the majority of residents in Paris now uses two wheels or public transport.The study confirms the efforts of the French capital in its work to discourage the use of the machine and individual motorized means of transport, which the city has been carrying out for years through targeted and more structural operations. The survey was conducted on a sample of 3,337 French citizens between the ages of 16 and 80 who agreed to equip themselves with GPS for seven consecutive days.According to the IPR, the investigation confirms "the great const...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. There is a phrase that is uttered in all parts of the globe to regardless of any argument relating to the improvement of cycling mobility in the city: “Oh but [*insert city as desired*] it's not Amsterdam". There is in fact this widespread belief that in the Dutch capital the people were born with a greater propensity to use the bicycle.The natural belief that the city was founded in that way:built around mobility on two wheels, always.Sort of Urban DNA:if you don't have that gene, there's no point wasting time. Well, let's try once and for all to dispel this myth.And we do it by telling the story of as Amsterdam has become the world capital of cycling mobility (because you are not born there, but you become one) and how other cities, often many years later, have followed its example.As?Making a resolute and profound urban transformation driven by the desire to take space away from cars and g...