In 2016, the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) began a project called Bicivia, a network of metropolitan bike lanes designed to connect the metropolitan area from north to south and west to east in a fast, safe, direct way. The stretch between Esplugues de...
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ZICLA: Eco-innovation in the DNA. An interview by EcoAP.
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...
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...
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...
Cyclists and pedestrians together can get more livable and friendly cities.
The tranquillity of streets in a city and the generation of smoke-free spaces from exhaust fumes is one of the ways to make cities more livable and more friendly. The widespread use of bicycles in the city clearly contributes to the tranquillity but its growing...
Why protect innovations and innovators.
Innovation is a key factor for society to advance. In the same way that it is very important to innovate, it is also important to protect those who made the intellectual and economic effort to innovate. Industrial and intellectual development are protected through the...
Barcelona is working to become a 100% accessible city.
What do we know about universal accessibility? Universal accessibility means much more than being able to put a wheelchair on the bus or that a vision impaired person can cross a crosswalk because of the beeps that the traffic light emits when it turns green....
Park & Ride : out-of-town parking to reduce cars in the city center
The Park & Ride concept refers to parking lots in the suburbs of the big cities to encourage people to park their vehicles there and go to the city center using public transport, bicycles or car sharing services. These parking lots are usually next to bus or rail...
These are the 10 cities with the best public transport. Get to know them!
With some 80% of all wealth concentrated in cities and with an urban population constituting the majority of the world's people, cities are the hubs of human activity. But, why is it important to develop sustainable form of transport? We're going to explain it....