The Brussels government is desperate to get people out of lockdown and onto their bikes rather than back into traffic jams
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“Out of love for our public transport, please, take a bike or go on foot if you can,” Brussels’ regional Transport Minister Elke Van den Brandt, a member of the Flemish Greens, said in an interview.plans to use France's exit from lockdown to boost bikes, with new temporary cycling infrastructure and a €20 million plan to make bikes more attractive.
The plans in Brussels, Paris and elsewhere hint at the beginnings of a reversal of what happened a century ago, when the advent of the car triggered a rethinking of urban space, said Marco te Brömmelstroet, who teaches urban planning and mobility at the University of Amsterdam., breaking with decades of car-centric thinking and starting to experiment with solutions that give cycling more and safer space on the roads,” said te Brömmelstroet.
The crisis has further emphasized the need for change, Van den Brandt said, arguing “it's become all the more palpable that public space is not distributed equally.” On Tuesday, Ribera issued a statement promoting bike use to both aid social distancing and to maintain the unusually good air quality in cities such as Madrid since people began working from home. The minister recommended expanding pedestrian zones, reserving the rightmost lane of major streets exclusively for cyclists, keeping urban speeds below 30 kph and relaxing rules on transporting bicycles on trains and buses as temporary measures.
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