Participating towns and cities

CroatiaRijeka, Croatia

Website:
Population:
128.000 inhabitants
Department:
Development, City Planning, Environmental Protection and Land Ma
Contact:
Tanja Saulig Brajdić
Titov trg 3
51000 Rijeka
(++385) 51 209 465, 51 209 450

Participation 2010

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Rijeka organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2010, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
Workshops for children – artistic and ecological with the topics «The cities are suffocating» and «Travel smarter, live better»

Marking the new walking pathways in the city

Painting the bus stations related to walking pathways that are marked

Promotion of electric bicycle in the main walking street– free trials for citizens
Monitoring the numbers of cars entering the city and number of passengers in them

Discovering the mountaineer pathways in the city – organized walk for school children to the «Veli vrh»

Measurement of blood pressure and sugar concentration in the blood in the main walking street - free of charge

Testing the physical preparedness of the citizens – measuring the sprint running on 50 m in the main walking street

Aerobics and zumba for everyone in the main walking street – free of charge
Discovering the walking pathways in the city – organized walk throughout several parts of the city

Setting up the «Park on the wheels» - in front of the school «Nikola Tesla» it will be settled mobile installation «Park on the wheels». The used waste containers were redesigned, painted by the school children and filled with the soil. In them the trees will be planted. As they have wheels the containers can be moved and organized in different shapes.

In the local media (TV, radio, newspapers) and web site of The City of Rijeka during the Environmental mobility week the citizens will be informed about activities and educated how to be smarter and travel better