Cities and its structures are changing in order to adapt themselves to the current environmental and societal requirements. These changes can be seen in the urban structures and in the infrastructures in which the cities are investing more time and material resources....
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The Zipper® system by ZICLA has been recognized as a Good Practice by the Design for All Foundation.
The Design for All Foundation has recognized our Zipper® system as a Good Practice. The Zipper ® system has been conceived as urban equipment that improves the safety of the cyclists when the bike lane is located on the road. The units of the Zipper system are...
5 amaizing ways in which cycling is beneficial for our wellbeing.
Summer holidays are about to arrive and with them people use to choose the bicycle to move around the city of the place they live in during this period. But this does not mean that the bicycle is only practical for summer, on the contrary, it is a very good option for...
ZICLA’s Zebra® separators are part of the landscape of Barcelona.
Barcelona is the city where we have installed more Zebra® separators since we began manufacturing them. Both, ZICLA and Zebra® separators were born in Barcelona, and it has been the first big city to include this product massively in its bike lane network. In fact, if...
The bicycle, a key tool for the present and future of the mobility in the cities.
The bicycle and the sustainable mobility. Due to the population increase, the urban traffic and the severe pollution challenges we are facing nowadays the sustainable mobility, in which the bike is a key factor and must be one of the milestones in the agendas of our...
EU Green Week 2018.
The EU Green Week 2018 began the 21st of May in Utrecht (The Netherlands) and ended the 25th of May in Madrid (Spain). Meanwhile in Brussels, it took place the high level EU Green Cities Summit. During this week, there were discussions about the ways in which the...
The recovery of the place that currently take up the cars, key for the future of the cities.
The place that car occupies in the cities has an effect on our living space. People that live in big cities such as New York, New Delhi, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Madrid, etc. know that the living space is at the same time a precious and scarce good. That is why it...
In Barcelona bike lanes are customized to the streets’ characteristics.
Customized bike lanes in Barcelona. Each city has its own strategy to design innovative streets that include bike lanes; in Barcelona, the people in charge of the mobility have decided to adapt each bike lane to each street. Moreover, there are streets where the bike...
The folding bicycles a key tool for the sustainable mobility.
Each day there are more cities investing money and space to improve the bike lane networks in order to offer a more sustainable mobility to its citizens. Barcelona is one of these cities; in fact, almost every inhabitant is able to find a protected bike lane,...
Complete streets, livable cities.
Nowadays, we are facing the problem that many of the streets that constitute our cities do not embrace in the same way kids, elderly people, cyclists, people with reduced mobility, public transportation, etc. This is why, Complete Streets policies are gaining...