REGIONAL INFORMATION:
Stredne Slovensko / Slovakia

Implementation

Within the first implementation phase, comments and proposals from the citizens were gathered. The second phase mainly focused on the research and evaluation proposed location and the public tendering of bicycle racks. The third phase represented the installation which ran from October to Decembre 2012 had been installed 300 bicycle racks.

Activities

• Meeting with schools/stakeholders

This activity involves the prepration of pilot investments in city of Žilina. The activity consisted of: Meetings with stakeholders, development of online questionnaire and an internal meeting within municipality. We have contacted the staskeholders and institution which could be potentially interested in installation of bicycle racks. For this reason we have organised meetings with representatives of primary and elementary schools. In this meeting we introduce the project and presented the possibility for installation the bicycle racks for the schools. The schools received the questionnairies where there stated their insterest in bicycle racks and also the requierement number of bicycle rack.

• Developement of the online questionnaire

In order to ensure the good and suitable location for installation of bicycle racks, we have developed the online questionnaire where the inhabitants had the chance to comment and propose new locations of bicycle racks and shelters in their city.

• Internal meeting with municipality representatives

In Novermber 2012 the municipality organised the internal meeting where the particular departments of the municipality which could discuss on the best possible installation of bicycle racks. The following deprtments participated:
Department of EU projects, Department of construction, Department of Investments and NGO MULICA.

Output

Due to the online questionnaire, more than 120 proposals for bicycle racks were proposed by the citizens. Meeting with the municipality was necessary because of successfully planning the installation of racks. The municipality has an analytical web tool which is used for comparison, downloading  and monitoring of data provided by the bicycle counters. This information is used for further strategic steps. It will have an impact on new bicycle infrastructure build in future. This is the most important argument for the city implementing better condition for cyclists.

• The installation took place from October to Decembre 2012 whereas almost 300 bicycle racks were installed. The locations with number of racks is shown in the picture below, the new bicycle racks from the Central Meetbike project are marked with green colour. Old bicycle racks are shown in blue. Until today, following locations were newly equipped with the bicycle racks:

• • Elementary, high schools
  • Theatres, sport locations
  • Public places as squares
  • Shops
  • Swimming pool
  • Post offices
  • Railway station
  • Courts
  • Regional government office
  • Hospital, Heath centres
  • etc.

• Installation of automatic bicycle counters

This is the first bicycle counter within all of Slovak republic. The main reason for installing these was to have „hard“ data which can be used in the process of evaluation and monitoring of cyclists in urban environment. The location of counters have been chosen with respect to the existing cycling infrastructure. Based on that the municipality choose two location. First is on the separated cycle track situated along the commercial zone. The second is situated in the shared track for cyclists and pedestrian.

To get more information on the Central MeetBike project, please click HERE to see the project website.