Fostering of bicycles
Participation
The bicycle strategy aims to foster the use of public and private bikes. For this reason, promotional and educational programmes are planned for the city, with the backing, involvement and participation of all the players concerned.
Promoting the use of bikes in Barcelona originated with the Bicycle Working Group discussions, as part of the Mobility Pact. Work and development will continue along these lines.
Therefore it will be the organisations involved in the Pact that will monitor the development of the planned initiatives and foster joint work on promotion and awareness-raising, which will be carried out on the basis of joint responsibility and in coordination with all the players concerned.
Promotion
Education
Microxarxa escolar "Transformem la mobilitat"
The municipal programme d' Escoles + Sostenibles promotes this micro-network to offer a set of thematic resources organised around a specific support service for schools. Specifically, this project is an initiative to promote sustainable mobility, improve the safety of the spaces where pupils walk, find out about travel patterns, collect incidents on public roads, participate in a collective proposal and draw up a mobility action plan for the school.
BICIA'T
The BICIA’T or "On your bike" project promotes the use of bicycles among council workers as a sustainable and healthy way of getting to work. Initiatives are already under way for constructing non-folding bike parking places at municipal buildings. This is part of the More Sustainable City Council initiative and the idea is that it should serve as a model to be adopted in other structures.
The bicycle as an environmental-education tool
The Barcelona's More Sustainable Facilities has 17 facilities dedicated to extending the culture of sustainability with a stable programme of activities. Among these facilities is the Bicihub, an environmental facility dedicated to promoting the use of bicycles and encouraging sustainable mobility.