Participating towns and cities

NorwayPorsgrunn, Norway

Website:
www.porsgrunn.kommune.no
Population:
35.000 inhabitants
Porsgrunn already registered 5x for EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK in: 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

Participation 2010

Activities within the week Activities within the week

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

All week
Actions relative to the theme: "Travel smarter, Live better"
During the EMW Porsgrunn and Skien will co-oordinated our activities, and show the conection between movement and health.We will use humour in our campain. We will focus on bicycle, walking, fruit and vegetables.
- bicycle rebus in town senter
- bicycle competion between achivements in Porsgrunn and Skien
- bicycle tour combine with walking in the woods/mountain
-competion between primary schools in Porsgrunn and Skien (walk and bicycle to school)
- piazza on a parking lot in town senter
-seminar were the participants are youth, politicians and shoop owners
-opening of parking place for bicycles
-exebition in town senter

Permanent measures Permanent measures

Porsgrunn 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 facilities (parking, locks etc) implemented
Pedestrianisation
Improvement of infrastructure (new foot bridges, pavements, road crossings, zebra crossings etc) implemented
Public transport services
The development of accessible transport services for all implemented
Traffic calming and access control scheme
Reduction of outside parking zones implemented
New traffic regulations: traffic circulation and parking implemented
Accessibilities
Create the tactile pavements implemented
Create wheelchair ramps implemented
Lowering of pavements implemented
Enlargement of pavements implemented
Removal of architectonic barriers implemented
Launch of accessibility plans implemented
Create useful tool for people with reduced mobility implemented
Mobility management
Elaboration of educational materials implemented
Provision of incentives and bonuses to employers implemented
Further info
- Atractive and safe parking for bicycles
- Charging stations for electric cars
- removment of parking spaces for cars in town senter
- Parking charge

Car-free day Car-free day

Porsgrunn carries out a Car-free day 2010 and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.