Riding a bike is highly beneficial for our health, the environment, the economy, and other things. Some people are skeptical of the economic benefits of constructing a bike lane. Traders based in the street where the bike lane will be constructed are the most critical...
Alfredo Balmaceda has been interviewed by EcoAP News. Alfredo Balmaceda has worked for over 20 years on environmental sustainability and circular economy issues, well before the terms meant much to the average person. A civil engineer (PhD) and chemical and...
Although more and more cities offer shared bicycle systems to their citizens, their use does not always meet people’s expectations. The general aim is to promote sustainable mobility, but a good shared bicycle system is not enough. Citizens need something more or...
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....
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...