Motivate your environment to take the bike
If you replace the car with a bicycle for short distances, the air quality and your own health improve.
You tackle the following challenges:
That's how you do it
More than half of the people who live less than five kilometers from their work use their car to travel. There is therefore still a lot of potential to increase bicycle use.
As a government, you can make bicycle use more attractive with measures such as:
- build safe and comfortable bike paths,
- provide sufficient (free) bicycle sheds,
- improve the traffic flow for cyclists,
- implement bicycle rental systems.
Tips
The Flemish Department of Mobility and Public Works developed a vade mecum for bicycle facilities . This includes design guidelines for bicycle facilities such as bicycle paths and bicycle sheds.
For questions about bicycle policy, you can contact the Provincial Support Center for Bicycles.
Knowing more
Improving the traffic flow for cyclists must ensure that cyclists come into conflict with other road users as little as possible. This can be done by:
- Construction of cycle paths separated from other road traffic
- Adapted traffic lights (green wave for cyclists, simultaneously green for cyclists in all directions)
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More information
- Vademecum bicycle facilities (Department of Mobility and Public Works, Flanders)
- Blue Bike bicycle rental service (Flanders)
- Bicycle Support Center (Flanders)
- Creating a healthy living environment: focus on air quality (Department of Environment)
- Find a shared bike in the Netherlands (Netherlands)
