City Cycling (STADTRADELN)

The campaign contributes to climate protection and sets an example to promote cycling in municipalities. As the local decision-makers for cycling infrastructure, local politicians should experience first-hand what it means to cycle in their own municipality and help to initiate and implement measures to improve the situation for cyclists. The CITY CYCLING campaign is designed as a competition to promote cycling. The most active local parliaments and municipalities are sought – as are the most active teams and cyclists in the municipalities themselves. Members of local parliaments are invited to form teams with citizens and to compete to top the leader board. Ideally, they should act as team captains for CITY CYCLING teams to set a positive example to encourage citizens to cycle more. During the 21 consecutive days, as many journeys as possible should be covered by bike – for both private and professional purposes. School classes, clubs, organisations, companies and local inhabitants are also all invited to form teams. During the three-week campaign period, cyclists record the kilometres they cover in an environmentally friendly manner in their online cycling log, a web-based database for logging the kilometres cycled.