Ghent, a city approaching half a million people, was transformed by a travel plan in 2017. Since then, cycling has doubled and public transport use is up 12%. The real surprise comes in the placid feel of the place.
So The Climate Show went to Ghent, a city of approaching half a million people. A city transformed by a travel plan in 2017.
But the real surprise comes in the placid feel of the place: major junctions thronged by carefree pedestrians and crazy multi-occupancy bikes, the minimal traffic dominated by white vans and taxis, as they are some of the few vehicles allowed in.Getting off the train, we saw an area the size of a football pitch covered in parked bikesSo how has this been achieved? I caught up with deputy mayor Filip as he cycled around his city.
The centre of the city is largely barred to vehicles, but suppliers, some health workers and elderly residents are allowed to drive. Outside of that, it is now impossible to drive directly between six surrounding suburbs: you have to go out to the ring road, round and back in, to your destination. Walter is delivering fresh drinks and frozen food to the city's many restaurants. As he struggles to pull his pallet trolley across cobbled streets, he complains that politicians don't understand working people, about their newly restricted delivery times and what he sees as a new menace: careless cyclists.
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