A new program from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Global Designing Cities Initiative will select ten global cities looking to build more cycleways and increase cycle use.
Those selected will also receive guidance from GDCI, which has helped local governments in more than 30 cities with similar initiatives.
was created by billionaire Mike Bloomberg and who as New York mayor oversaw the creation of new cycleways in the city. GDCI was founded by Janette Sadik-Khan, who was New York’s traffic commissioner under Bloomberg between 2007 and 2013.A separate program—for US cities only—has also been launched by City Thread, a nonprofit consultancy which will award cities up to $35,000 in match funding to accelerate the completion of projects that improve mobility, safety, and community connectivity.
“These projects have overwhelming public support from the start, but cities get stuck when the build-out gets bogged down by politics and budget negotiations.”
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