Detailed description (English): The revision of Aveiro municipality’s Master Development Plan started with a period for public participation, as obliged by the Portuguese law, where citizens could contribute with suggestions. Due to the importance of the Plan to the future of Aveiro, and particularly to the definition of local mobility policies, Ciclaveiro organized a participative and collaborative process aiming to debate sustainable mobility, gather suggestions that represented the desires of the community and in the end to have a set of suggestions supported by a large group of citizens to be presented to the municipality.
Complemented by actual orientations from Portuguese and European institutions, best practices and examples of successful cases on implementing sustainable forms of mobility, and recommendations from the reference bibliography in the field, the process resulted in a document with 52 suggestions to establishment of a vision and objectives towards a more inclusive and sustainable mobility, improvement of the public space and road safety of vulnerable users, creation of cycling infrastructures and improvement of bicycle use conditions, and promotion of regular bicycle use. The document was subscribed by 213 citizens and 5 associations.
Target group(s): Citizens and municipality.
Objectives: Contribute to the revision of Aveiro’s Master Development Plan with suggestions that can contribute to a more sustainable mobility, to better cycling conditions and to a relevant raise in the number of bicycle users in Aveiro.
Expected Outcomes: 44 participants, a document with 52 suggestions for Aveiro’s Master Development Plan revision with 218 susbcriptions, coverage by local local and national media.
The Plan revision whole process is going to last for 18 months, and the municipality is expected to analyse all the suggestions received.