At ZICLA we believe that a commitment to sustainable mobility, which includes walking, cycling and public transport, is the way to achieve accessible, inclusive and friendly streets with a small environmental footprint. Promoting sustainable mobility is one of the...
SUSTAINABILITY
More and safer bike lanes mean more cyclists.
Nowadays there is a widespread consensus on the importance of a transition towards more sustainable means of transport such as the bicycle. That is why many big cities are investing in different projects and initiatives to promote the use of the bike. It has been...
New York City’s Congestion Pricing tax.
Cities are getting involved in many initiatives to promote sustainable mobility in city centers, or at least to control and to reduce the massive use of private vehicles for daily commutes. The New York City's Congestion Pricing tax. New York City has chosen...
The application of the latest technologies in vehicles is not enough to achieve sustainable mobility.
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...
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...
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...