The Velo Masterplan for Bucharest, which has reached the final stage of consultation, foresees a main network of bicycle tracks, which will total a number of 150 kilometers, during the next five years, Radu Andronic, the representative of FIP Consulting, told a press conference on Wednesday.

Almost 400 kilometers of secondary network could be added to them, which can be realized with the involvement of the sector municipalities, in the next ten years.

Andronic, the representative of FIP Consulting, the company that drafts the document, says that if the plan is implemented, Bucharest will become a „new Amsterdam or a new Paris”, in the conditions in which, currently, the bicycle tracks „somewhat efficient” in the Capital City of Romania count for 25 kilometers.

Radu Andronic added that the bike tracks represent part of the wider solution for alternative mobility and that the Velo Masterplan must be correlated with the public transport system.

„Through this Velo Masterplan, we want to have a strategic, integrated approach for the whole of Bucharest, which avoids those situations in which we have tracks made by certain administrations, which start from nowhere and lead nowhere,” said the Chief Architect of Bucharest, Matei Damian.

AGERPRES