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EU has allocated EUR560,000 to encourage urban Belarusians to ride bicycles
19.05.2017 16:11 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As to Darya Chumakova, Deputy Director of the Belarusian not-for-profit non-governmental organization Center for Environmental Solutions, the European Union has allocated EUR560,000 to encourage urban Belarusians to ride bicycles, Belarus Radio reports referring to
BelTA.
As to the report, the project designed to encourage bicycling in Belarusian cities and towns was presented before mass media. The project is supposed to encourage the development of bicycling infrastructure at the national and regional levels in addition to enabling more effective organization of the bicycle transport system. Social and economic benefits of encouraging urban bicycling in Belarus will be assessed as part of the project’s implementation.
As to Chumakova, there are plans to arrange park and ride facilities in Minsk where people will be able to switch from mass transit systems to riding a bicycle in order to get to their destinations. Special meters will be installed on bicycle tracks to count the number of bicyclists. It is now necessary to set up a working group, which will take care of the project’s implementation, in addition to creating a digital information center and a map of bicycling routes in Belarusian cities and towns.
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