Bike Transportation – Seville vs. Prague
After my arrival to Seville, I quickly started to notice how popular and how different bike transportation is here compared to my home city – Prague, Czech Republic. Seville is a perfect city for cycling because of its pleasant climate year-round, extremely well-developed bicycle lane network, and in addition, the city has a very low altitude (7 meters on average), so for cyclists, it is very easy and comfortable to ride around the city. development of the cycling network throughout the years in Seville “The secret to our success was treating cycling like a system of transportation — building an entire network of connected lanes, instead of a few disconnected lanes year after year.” These are the words of Manuel Calvo, a member of the Plan de la Bicicleta de Sevilla , a project that promotes and develops a cycling transportation network in Seville. Nowadays, the Seville bike lane network is approximately 180 km long (could be compared to the distance from Sevilla to Málaga by car)...