What's Green Bikes for Peace project?

The Green Bikes for Peace project was a 30-day-long biking tour crossing 5 countries, with youth participating. The aim of the trip was to draw attention to sustainability. Thus various programs and subprojects are organized before and during the trip, in order to demonstrate different aspects of sustainability in a creative way. Our project had many partners and sponsors. The detailed route and dates of the trip. The development of the project can be followed in the diary!

Vienna from a biker's point of view on a Sunday afternoon

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Submitted by kobrizsa on Mon, 06/07/2009 - 12:10

Our official program for today started at 3 pm on the boat with a workshop on the basic theories of cycling facicties and the cooperation with the local government, presented by Alec Hager and Fidelio (IG Fahrrad). After the theoretical discussion we grabbed our bikes to be able to examine the developed local infrastructure in practice. Roland (IG Fahrrad) spiced up the 3-hour-long tour with cultural and historical stories. In the evening we had dinner at a university-community place where cooking was a real civil action with the participation of all volunteers.

Human powered vehicles
No skaters on the cycle lane
Workshop on the boat
Public bike system
Who's going to take me?
Separated cycle path on the bridge
A solution that should be seen in more cities
Gloomy City Hall
University-community open kitchen
Civil cooperation

3 comments for "Vienna from a biker's point of view on a Sunday afternoon ".

1. Vienna's cycling facilities

Submitted by saviourag on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 20:53.

Vienna's cycling facilities may not be up to scratch by Danish or Dutch standards, but they certainly are good compared to many other capital cities. Vienna is a city that is blooming with tourism of all sorts, especially cycle-tourism. As soon as we reached the outskirts of the city we could already envisage a bicycle-traffic congestion.

Cycletouring is a popular activity along the Austrian stretch of the Donauradweg and it's mainly an activity for the old and couples with kids. Since the targeted market is German tourists, information along the way in languages other than German is terribly lacking and so non-German speakers may feel excluded.

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2. Vienna cycling

Submitted by szciklon on Thu, 09/07/2009 - 07:08.

I am "horschi" (Orsi), thanks for the compliment.
I was amazed by the number of one-way streets in Vienna opened for cyclists into the other direction. I took about 30 for just the fun of it! I didn't like the separate bike paths, but I loved the lanes and the boxes for cyclists where they can wait to turn or go straight and can be seen by cars.
I also loved and would highly appreciate in Budapest the thing I saw on Donauinsel next to the boat where we had our accommodation: a tall column, where you can drink and which also sprinkles water, it was really refreshing in the heat.

3. bikekitchien

Submitted by mrlau on Wed, 08/07/2009 - 21:48.

never seen such a beatiful place. loads of halfrotten bikes leaning against the walls. famous horschi in the kitchen preparing wondrful mixedculture pasta for us. popsongs, played just 4 us. we danced like cracy. and wise bikemechanics repairing our bikes and constructing bikemonsters, like the tallbikes and bikelorries. the best was thomash from the hungrian bikekitchen, he made my mtb to be running like a mustang horse. he said it isnt perfect jet, so it might improve, aslong it is a selfrepairing puch. and with experience it will get even fatster. they had a free corner as well, where i found bags 4 my brother, who is going to join us soon.