Brussels, 06/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - The Italian city of Bologna has won the 2011 European Mobility Week Award. The prize, judged by an independent group of mobility experts, was awarded on Monday 5 March in Brussels by Janez Potocnik, Environment Commissioner, and by Siim Kallas, Transport Commissioner. The other finalists are the town of Larnaka, in Cyprus, and Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. “Bologna, Larnaka and Zagreb have found creative ways to permanently make their transport infrastructure more sustainable”, said Potocnik.
Siim Kallas pointed out that “the 2011 Transport White Paper highlights the need for a new approach to urban mobility”. Bologna has been rewarded for having organised a whole car-free weekend instead of a single car-free day, and also for having permanently set in place charging points for electric cars and a plan to extend the city's network of cycling paths to 130 km. (AN/transl.jl)