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IV Municipal Conferences on Bicycle Education
On friday 4 March 2016 were officialy inaugurated the IV Municipal Conferences on Bicycle Education, organised by the Educational Center on Road Safety and teached by Granada al Pedal and municipal technicians.
This event was headed by the Delegate of Mobility and Citizen´s Protection María Francés, the President of Granada al Pedal and the Manager of the company Transportes Rober, sponsoring the Bikes.
Municipal targets of the use of bikes
- 1. Promote this mean of transport as a healthier and more substainable one for citizens and the city.
- 2. Educate safer and caring users of bikes
Ways to achieve these targets
- 1. Create the Urban Plan of Road Safety (2.012), where began a diagnosis of the problems of the city and different proposals to solve them, such as bikes are.
- 2. Measures on Road Infrastructures :
Independently of the bicyle lanes existing in some areas of the city, and because of the structure of the city of Granada as an historical city, it has been made a great work to peace the streets (speed 30km, 20km, 10km and pedestrians), to ease COEXISTENCE between different means of transport, encouraging those more EFFICIENT for the city: bus bikes and pedestrians.
- 3. Measures for the Cyclist Training:
- Theorical - practical courses for young schoolchilds of all ages.
- Cyclist Conferences: this year celebrates the IV Conferences with an evident increase of the number of participants.
- Creation and dissemination of informative leaflets of the Municipal Ordinance for pedestrians and bicycles. (2010).
- Creation of educational material about bicycles.
As Novelties in this Edition, are:
- A reflective armbands, that will be given to all attendants to rise awareness of the importance that To be seen has when riding a bike.
- Creation of an Interactive Pendrive, as a Computer support to Train the Trainers. It will be given to each teacher, preferably to Sports Education ones, subject where is easier to work with these contents. This flash pen has information about the benefits of bicycles, places to ride a bike and how to ride it safely. At the end, includes a large range of questions to arrange workshops or activities. Includes a DVD with different urban routes in Granada made by professionals of the CEV.
- Acquisition of a bicycle fleet exclusively destinated for these Conferences.
- 4. Creation of Campaigns, to rise awareness on the rest of drivers, about bicycles and the necessity to respect their space and riders, who are more vulnerable.
Metodology of Conferences
- 1. Theorical session in the classroom, to give information about bicycles and their different places in the city of Granada, and the correct and safe way to circulate in it as well. There is much emphasis on the importance not only of knowledges but values and possitive behaviour on the ciclyst.
- 2. Practice in a Circuit of basic skills, to ensure the correct use of bicylces and circulation in an area with signing and regulations.
- 3. Outdoor practice, in a route around: roads with no reserved place for bicyles, metropolitan bicyle lanes, sport bicyle lane, and urban bicycle lane, with the cooperation of Local Police in some hot points of special difficult, such as roundabouts under A44 motorway.
- 4. Back to classroom, to observe difficulties and solution of raised doubts. Finally will be projected a DVD of circulation through the center of Granada.
Population whose is aimed this activity:
Schoolchilds of all Educational Centers of Granada that apply for it, from 6th degree of Primary Education and hereinafter (preferably from E.S.O.). Also to its teachers and relatives in some ocassions.
Attendants of last two Editions
| 2014 | 2015 | |
| Total Educational Centers | 17 | 25 |
| Total Groups | 33 | 53 |
| Total Attendants | 850 | 1386 |
Center for the Complete Management of Mobility
Delegation of Citizens Safety and Mobility.
City of Granada
