Construction of cycling roads

Tartu is a rather compact city territory and most of the destinations are easily accessible by foot or by bike. If the percentage of pedestrians has been fairly high at the moment (about 40%), the proportion of cyclists is quite small (up to 3% of all movements). In order to increase the proportion of light traffic from everyday movements and to improve connections between downtown and suburbs (including surrounding municipalities), it was decided to build new bicycle roads of at least 50-60 km. The planning of roads was based on the principle that a logical network of bicycle paths would be created and all the main directions going out of town would be covered. Road design was also based on the daily routing of people identified through surveys. Along with the creation of new bike roads, existing roads were also repaired and bicycle traversing opportunities for more than 100 kilometers on the roads were improved during the project.