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This week we asked ourselves whether Italy is a cycle-friendly country or not. We took a closer look at our country to better understand how it is structured and organised to accommodate us bikers.<\/p>\n
We obviously realised that there are municipalities that are more organised than others and Cycling cities<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>already a great little example of eco-sustainability and green lifestyle.<\/p>\n We must give the Italian Environment and Bicycle Federation credit for having methodically begun to map our country from a cycling perspective. We are talking about the 'Comuni Ciclabili' project, conceived by Alessandro Tursi. launched in the summer of 2017 in the form of a collection of\u00a0<\/strong>voluntary applications.<\/p>\n The project invited interested cities to participate by filling in questionnaires to be verified by local representatives. The result of the first edition revealed a total of 69 participating municipalities, to which 13 more were subsequently added.<\/p>\n As of July 2020, there are now 136 bicycle-friendly cities and towns. Specifically, we have seen that Florence is the fourth regional capital to have joined after Turin, Bologna and Trento.<\/p>\n LEmilia Romagna<\/a> is the leading region with 25 municipalities, followed by the\u00a0Veneto<\/a>\u00a0which comes in at 21. In third position is theAbruzzo<\/a>\u00a0which, with the new coastal municipalities of Vasto and San Salvo, comes to a total of 15, we finally find the\u00a0Lombardy<\/a>\u00a0with 12 municipalities.<\/p>\n During the 2020 edition, postponed due to Covid, Rome also joined the pool of Italian Bicycle Municipalities,<\/strong>\u00a0an encouraging result given the wonder of our capital city and the many municipalities it encompasses.<\/p>\n Italy therefore confirms itself as an increasingly transformative and bike-friendly country. The Covid-19 pandemic is changing the geography of mobility worldwide through the implementation of an extensive network of cycle paths.<\/p>\n Public transport, considered a safety risk due to its inability to foster social distancing rules, has increasingly pushed citizens towards sustainable mobility.<\/p>\n This is helped by the adoption of the\u00a0Bonus Bike<\/a>\u00a0and other important regulatory changes, such as the inclusion of the\u00a0Advanced House<\/a>\u00a0in the Highway Code.<\/p>\n