Participating towns and cities

Italy, 2012

Alessandria, Italy

Website:

www.comune.alessandria.it

Population:

95.000 inhabitants

Alessandria already registered 1x for EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK in: 2012

Participation 2012

Activities within the week

Alessandria organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2012, taking into account the annual theme.

All week

Sunday 16 ... in the city

ZTL in city
hours 10.00/18.00: bicycles to the conquest of Alexandria. The center is open only to pedestrians and bicycles.

"A WHOLE BIKE"
Freedom Square hours 10.00/18.00; Try electric bikes, punching Gazebo bike; Gazebo ciclorivenditori.

THE CITY 'OF CHILDREN with "Gliamicidellebici"
Public Gardens (at Equestrian Monument): 9.30
Pedaling for all through city spaces reserved for children: to offer enrollment to the project "SPEDIAMOLI BOOKS TO SCHOOL".

Ciclofficina TRAVELING
Repairers bike "Ciclofficina popular Cooperative Work and Liberation" available to the public in the streets of the city.

PROJECT PRESENTATION "RavvivALE!"
A project to give new impetus to live the urban space in a free and imaginative.

PROJECT PRESENTATION MetropolitAle
A project to stimulate new points of view over the city, to find alternative routes giving voice to ideas of citizens for improving the public realm.

Permanent measures

Alessandria 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.

New or improved bicycle facilities

Improvement of bicycle network (creation of new lanes, extension, renovation, signposting etc) implemented

Develop public bicycle hiring and sharing systems implemented

Improvement of bicycle facilities (parking, locks etc) implemented

Pedestrianisation

Create or enlarge pedestrian streets implemented

Improvement of infrastructure (new foot bridges, pavements, road crossings, zebra crossings etc) implemented

Public transport services

Use of ecological vehicles for public transport fleets implemented

Launch of integrated services for the various public transport modes implemented

The development of accessible transport services for all implemented

Traffic calming and access control scheme

Speed reduction programmes in zones near schools implemented

New traffic regulations: traffic circulation and parking implemented

Accessibilities

Create the tactile pavements implemented

Create wheelchair ramps implemented

Elaboration of sound devices in traffic lights implemented

Removal of architectonic barriers implemented

Launch of accessibility plans implemented

New forms of vehicle use and ownership

Launch of online car-pooling and car-sharing schemes implemented

Mobility management

Adoption of workplace travel plans implemented

Adoption of school travel plans implemented

Create/establish mobility centers and on-line information services (eg travel planner) implemented

Launch of awareness-raising campaigns implemented

Elaboration of educational materials implemented

Development of travel plans / mobility plans in consultation with local stakeholders implemented

Provision of incentives and bonuses to employers implemented

Create systems for buses and walking trains implemented

Development of systems and equipment for measuring air quality in public places implemented

Organisation of regular fora or surveys on public opinions and ideas implemented

Further info

PROJECT PRESENTATION "THE CITY 'POSSIBLE"

Towards the development of sustainable mobility in areas around schools municipal primary first and second degree through the involvement and participation of children, their parents and teachers with themes, graphics, photographic images, debates and build their idea of "city as possible." Zone 30, environmental islands and restricted traffic zones for the project with the municipal administration of the city accessible and livable.
A city on a child or person with a disability measure is actually a city on a human scale.

Car-free day

Alessandria carries out a Car-free day 2012 and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.