Cycling plays an important role in making our living environment healthier and more sustainable. Cycling also facilitates making our daily activities and new housing locations more accessible. Not surprisingly, more and more cities are giving higher priority to cycling (and walking).

Enschede is one of the frontrunners in the Netherlands in this field and has high 'cycling ambitions'. On Thursday 30 October, KIVI Traffic and Transport will gladly take you on an interactive and inspiring cycling excursion through Cycling City Enschede. For instance, the F35 is one of the first fast cycling routes in the Netherlands, there are several innovative bicycle parking facilities and there are also several innovative practical applications in the field of (bicycle) data in Enschede.

Regarding bicycle stimulation, the initiative 'Cycling to the Veste' is a great example of how to get more people on their bikes (to FC Twente). We also show you at project 'Molenstraat' how Enschede puts sustainability into practice. By putting walking and cycling centre stage and making more room for greenery and water storage, Enschede becomes more pleasant, sustainable, climate-adaptive and accessible.

During this bicycle excursion, Benjamin Groenewolt (policy advisor mobility at the municipality of Enschede) and Alex van Gent (advisor sustainable mobility at Arcadis) will tell you in an (inter)active way about the opportunities and challenges of realising bicycle projects in our cities.

Registration fee: € 5 (including networking drinks, excluding bicycle rental / we assume own bicycle or public transport bike)

Programme

15:30Reception at Enschede city office (next to Enschede railway station), participants are responsible for bringing their own bike (OV bike for example)
16:00Start cycling excursion
18:00 hrsEnd of cycling excursion and start of networking drinks (municipal offices)
19:00 hrsEnd of networking drinks