BICIPOLITANA Pesaro

The “Bicipolitana” concept (Urban cycle paths) has been launched in 2005 with the delivering of the Pesaro City “Plan of the cycle paths” aiming to improve the bicycle circulation in city and to solve conflict between cars and bikes. It has introduced the necessity to plan the cycle lanes in relation to the location of “zones 30” in the urban area. Later, in 2010 the “Plan of the cycle paths” has been updated to complete the already existing cycle paths in relation to the town-planning changes occurred during the last few years in the city.
To the current state, the bicycle routes network of the city has a total extension to approximately 87 km in the year 2017 (in 2010 the network was 55 km). The primary cycling network is constituted by 14 bicycle and pedestrian trails, called “lines”, detectable in radial and tangential routes.
The radial routes link the city center with suburban neighborhoods and are identified by numbers; the tangential routes run in parallel to the coast and are identified by letters.
The secondary cycling network links the nodes of the primary cycling network to the main areas and services of neighborhoods.
The success of Bicipolitana is related to the participation of citizens. Usually the project starts with a comparison activity with traders associations and residents, all in synergy with the neighborhood council. There are also specific councilors’ committees who give opinions on the intervention.