1. Movement and professional work
Bucharest, Romania

2. Bucharest cyclists have problems with...
Traffic
Foto: Bast

3. Bucharest cyclists have problems with...
Street dogs
Foto: Bast

4. Bucharest cyclists have problems with...
Pollution
Foto: Bast

5. Bucharest cyclists have problems with...
Infrastructure
Foto: Bast

6. Bucharest cyclists have problems with...
The Mayor

7. The cycle paths
completed in 2008
and 2011 were
established only on
sidewalks and
turned out to
be very expensive
and unsuccessful
experiments.

8. Until October 2012,
the Police Traffic
Division had already
declared illegal so
many paths that their
length exceeded 100
km out of the 117 km
manged by the
Bucharest Streets
Administration.

9. On March 11, 2013,
the Mayor
announced that he
refused to lay down
the cycle lanes on
roads and that he
supported cycle
lanes exclusively
on the sidewalks.

10. The Community of Bucharest’s Cyclists:
We don’t WANT cycle lanes
on the sidewalk !

11. March 23rd 2013 – Protest march:
We don’t WANT cycle lanes
on the sidewalk !

12. There were only
4,200 people.
But it was
the largest bike
protest in
Romania
Foto: Loading Studio

13. But the Mayor decided to ignore cyclists
and experts. He wants more traffic.

14. April 12, 2013: The Mayor announced value of the the investments for the
road infrastructure of his dreams: 13 billion Euros !

15. With the current city income, the infrastructure planed by the Mayor
would be ready in 40 years.
Bucharest will be buried in debts in order to get buried in concrete.

16. In 1900, the Mayor’s
plans would have
been visionary!
But we live in 2013…

17. “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic.
If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.”

19. Citizens’ Campaign requesting
public information about illegal cycle lanes.
The Mayor
refuses to
provide this
public
information.
Foto: Bike Lover

20. Translation: “Mr. Mayor told me that if I collected 10,000
likes on facebook, he would give cycle lanes"

21. Translation: ”We don’t like cycle lanes
on the sidewalk !”

22. “I can’t wait to see their faces
Translation:
after I make cycle lanes over here!”
Foto: Virusbike

23. Currently Bucharest has
no viable route with
cycling lanes for the
city's thousands
of bikers.
PROTEST IN PROGRESS