Cities and Bicycles: A User Publication for City Planners and Mobility Policymakers

Abstract

“Cities and Bicycles: The role of municipal ordinances” is a book that comes from expert users, both in infrastructure and data analysis and legislation, to fill an important gap in sustainable mobility. Though It is recommended for all interested public, it is focused in technicians who want to enrich their own knowledge, based on content coming from the preferences and experiences of people who use the bicycle as a means of transport in a daily basis, and apply them in their work. In the article, the author, an exceptional witness as a representative of ConBici for a decade, tells, in first person, how the publication was conceived and who contributed to its writing and realization. It also, to some extent, fills a void for municipalities that currently encourage the drafting of ordinances that affect the bicycle and demand a standard text on which to rely. However, its elaboration is not possible without addressing a deep refurbishment of National mobility regulations . This proccess always seems imminent but it never arrives. “Cities and bicycles: the role of municipal ordinances” aims to contribute in the right way to the changes that sustainable mobi