Participating towns and cities

GermanyBayreuth, Germany

Website:
https://www.bayreuth.de/
Population:
74.231 inhabitants
Department:
Stadtplanungsamt
Contact:
Thomas, Gesa Martina
Wilhelm-Pitz-Str. 1
95448 Bayreuth
(++49) 921 25 1141
Bayreuth already registered 1x for EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK in: 2024

Participation 2024

Find more information about Bayreuth here.

Activities within the week Activities within the week

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

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Civic participation event in mobility planning
The city of Bayreuth creates a strategic concept for climate friendly mobility. Civic participation is a major part of the process. As a big kick-off event for Bayreuth's activities during the European Mobility Week, the civic participation is going to be introduced and accompanied by the first and second mayor of the city, as well as the Department of Urban Planning.
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Program for public schools
We offer a variety of field trip programs including inclusion awareness via wheelchair parcours, workshop for experiencing mobility as a blind person (white cane), guided tour Fairtrade-Town, bicycle tour around the city center and introduction to mobility planning (focused on way to school).
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Family Bike demonstration (Kidical Mass)
Families with children meet for a bicycle demonstration around the city ring (major traffic route around the city center) to promote better conditions for bike mobility (especially with cargo bikes and kids' trailers)
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Family mobility festival at Peuntgasse
Bike and scooter parcours for kids (kindergarden, elementary school), bike security training for kids, DUI-simulator for adults, information booth of Parents for Future, Blind angle awareness (with garbage truck)
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Street festival at Neuer Weg
car-free streets, information booths on urban planning and climate-friendly mobility, official bike registration, second-hand bike bazaar, flea market, summer festival of the "Transition Haus", wheelchair parcours, artwork, music, food trucks and street café, inclusion of local businesses

Permanent measures Permanent measures

Bayreuth implements, planned or promotes one or more new permanent measure(s), which contribute(s) to modal transfer from private car to environmentally sound means of transport.

Traffic calming and access control scheme
Speed reduction programmes in zones near schools implemented
Reduction of outside parking zones promotion
New traffic regulations: traffic circulation and parking promotion
Speed reduction to 30 km/h is going to be implemented in an entire quarter of the city, including a resident preschool &Kindergarden and a business area. This measure allows for safer bicycling in the

Car-free day Car-free day

Bayreuth carries out a Car-free day and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.

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The city quarter "Neuer Weg" will be held car-free on Saturday, September 21, for a street fair and a flea market. In the area, businesses and local clubs are welcomed to join in activities on the streets that promote climate-friendly mobility, considerate behavior in traffic situations and inclusion of physically challenged people.
Find more information about Bayreuth here.