On May 20, 2012, a bicycle parade was held in Moscow dedicated to the need to develop the bicycle infrastructure of the capital. It was attended by more than 5 thousand cyclists who traveled from the Luzhniki sports complex to Vasilievsky Descent.
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According to information published on the RBC website, the organizer of the action was the Let's bike it! Movement. The protesters did not set the task of organizing the race, since the purpose of the event was to open the eyes of officials to the lack of equipped and long bike paths in Moscow. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, a bicycle is an environmentally friendly mode of transport, and secondly, the capabilities of modern models make it possible to travel distances faster, which makes bicycles indispensable in traffic jams.
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The May bike parade started at 16.00 Moscow time and stretched along several embankments of the Moscow River. It used a variety of bike models: road, mountain, city, folding, etc. In addition to ordinary citizens, several dozens of government employees took part in the action. Among them were those officials who did not deny that bicycle infrastructure in Moscow was poorly developed.
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By the way, in many European cities, bicycle is the most priority mode of transport, for example, in Amsterdam, where about 40% of residents go to work on this type of transport. Copenhagen, Barcelona, Beijing, etc. are not far behind Amsterdam. In these cities, priority is given to health, clean ecology, and also the saved time and money for travel.
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According to a survey conducted by RIA Novosti, almost one in three out of more than a thousand people expressed a desire to ride a bicycle to work or study if special tracks and ramps were equipped for this. And considering that 2012 in the Central Administrative District of Moscow was declared the year of the development of the cycling movement, it remains to be hoped that the views of lovers of environmentally friendly modes of transport will be taken into account and executed.
- RBC official website
- Official site RIA Novosti
