A few days ago there was an article in our newspaper that I really liked. An engineering office had examined the traffic situation by order of our city and the article was about the results of this study. The engineers found our modal share for cycling to be far too low compared to other cities and rated this as “not satisfactory” – an opinion that I strongly agree with, by the way. They also advised the city to invest at least 3 Euro ($ 4.50) per citizen and per year in bicycle traffic. That’s much more than the current amount. The experts recommended to improve the situation for cyclists and pedestrians in the different parts of the city and to intensify public relations to provoke more people to make trips by bike instead of by car. They said their hopes are mainly pinned on the bicycle.
Another conclusion was that our bus traffic works exemplary, so there is not much room for improvement on the public transport sector.
In my opinion there has been rather much useless whitewashing going on in our town, so I was very happy to see a newspaper article that finally adresses the real problems instead of beating about the bush.