On Thursday, September 18, within the framework of the “Mobility Week”, the Minsk Cycling Society and the “Green Network” partnership will organize a workshop on the topic:
“How to Design a Convenient Cycling Infrastructure in the City”
A workshop on this topic is being held for the first time in Belarus.
Invited to participate in the workshop:
- Designers and architects working with this topic (representatives of the Committee of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Minsk City Executive Committee, UE "Minskgrad", BelNIIPgradostroitelstvo and other design institutions in Minsk and other cities)
- Cycling activists from various cities of Belarus, who are in dialogue with the city authorities, represent the interests of the cycling movement.
- Expert organizations involved in the development of road traffic (BNPP, traffic police in Minsk, etc.)
- Other people and organizations interested in gaining new knowledge on the development of urban cycling infrastructure.
- We also invite bicycle activists from neighboring countries.
- Representatives of the press who are interested in gaining knowledge on this topic.
Bartosz Adam Skórzewski, a bicycle infrastructure designer from the city of Szczecin (Poland), a member of the Polish association "Miasta dla Rowerów" and the organization "Rowerowy Szczecin"
Why we conceived this workshop:
- Cycling infrastructure is just beginning to be created in our cities. Often, as active urban cyclists, we see that the cycle paths we create can be uncomfortable or unsafe. We see a need to create synergies between bike infrastructure designers, who themselves may not be cyclists and understand the problems, and active urban cyclists, who can formulate a request and give feedback to designers.
- We see a request from other cities in Belarus to create a high-quality cycling infrastructure and we see groups of cyclists who can take on the function of coordinators of this process, but who do not yet have knowledge of the correct creation of cycling infrastructure.
- We see that it is necessary to choose the most suitable standard solutions from a variety of possible solutions, to create technical standards.
The objectives of the workshop:
- Provide designers and bicycle activists of other cities with information about what kind of cycling infrastructure is possible and necessary for the city.
- Give feedback from cyclists to designers: what is being created in Minsk is convenient and what is not.
- Selection of suitable options for technical solutions and design approaches for the city.
- Analyze existing infrastructure projects, both implemented and planned.
- Prepare summary documents for designers and the administration of Minsk, the press.
- In the evening, a discussion will be organized with the cyclists of Minsk on the topic of cycling infrastructure.
