Ostrava joins the European Mobility Week campaign

Ostrava will again join in the European Mobility Week campaign to promote sustainable forms of transport. A regular participant, Ostrava will join the campaign for the 14th consecutive year. In cooperation with the Ostrava City Library, an accompanying program has been prepared in selected branches. Events for the public will also be accompanied by guided excursions or a lecture at the Ostrava Museum with an excursion to the Komenský Park. Already on Sunday, September 16, people can help clean up the bicycle path leading through the Poodří Protected Landscape Area in Polanka nad Odrou.

As part of its engagement in the European Mobility Week campaign, the City of Ostrava will also symbolically commit to building another part of the bicycle path “Bicycle connection between 17. Listopadu Street and VTP”. Of the planned 416 km of bicycle paths, Ostrava has built more than 250 km and more will gradually follow. Bicycle infrastructure is thus being gradually expanded and improved.

European Car Free Day

In 2000, the European Commission launched the European Car Free Day (ECFD), and since then it has become one of Europe’s important environmental protection days. Every year the event is firmly scheduled for September 22. The main purpose of the campaign is to highlight the unsustainable increase in individual car traffic in cities and various ways of its solution – supporting public transport by road and rail, building bicycle paths, improving the pedestrian areas, etc.

In Ostrava, on the occasion of the European Car Free Day, an information stand of the City of Ostrava on sustainable transport with an accompanying cycling support program will be part of the OZO Open Door Day. Bikesharing fans will be able to use the REKOLA bikes for free from the city centre to Kunčice, where a temporary bikesharing rack will be located.

About the European Mobility Week campaign

The European Mobility Week is held annually from 16 to 22 September, and it is an opportunity for cities around the world, but above all in Europe, to raise the profile of sustainable transport as alternatives to passenger car transport. This campaign is also an opportunity for individuals to consider whether it is beneficial for them to use their cars and to consider walking or cycling.  The information published within the European Mobility Week focuses on the possibility to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, improving air quality, health, and creating an urban environment where people can live and work comfortably. 2017 saw so far the most successful European Mobility Week, with more than 2,500 cities involved.