Cycling has become much more popular during the pandemic, and this can be seen both on the streets of Bucharest and in other major cities in the country. But cyclists continue to suffer from the lack of special infrastructure for them.

Rainey Stadler, a specialist in urban mobility, analyzes the reasons why the authorities are taking a step back and offers a number of solutions based on the best practices of “cycling” countries.

Let’s take the example of Bucharest, where in a year the authorities had only one initiative – to turn Calea Victoriei into a pedestrian area for the weekend, which is not new at all. Thus, we are not talking about new kilometers of bicycle paths, which are still functioning.

Theoretically, from 2008 to 2010, 122 kilometers of tracks worth 11 million euros were built in the capital. But, surprisingly, two years later, most of the cycle paths were canceled by the traffic police because they did not follow the rules of road safety.

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