Shkodra Cycling City Great tradition-bright future Presented by: Entela Shkreli GO2 NGO

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1 Shkodra Cycling City Great tradition-bright future Presented by: Entela Shkreli GO2 NGO

2 Shkodra General data inhabitants flat and compact city proximity to Shkodra lake three rivers 25 km from Adriatic Sea 40 km from Albanian Alps near Montenegro and Kosovo

3 Shkodra Northern Albania

4 Shkodra: lake, mountains, plane, seaside

5 Shkodra: tolerance & culture

6 Shkodra: urban pattern, topography and urban travel distances are ideal for walking and cycling 2 km 2 km

7 Boulevard structure Shkodra s urban identity

8 Cycling is still mainstream travel mode within the city and in the flat areas of the Shkodra Region 24 % 44 % 29 %

9 Shkodra s Cycling Culture in the early days First bicylcle introduced by Consul of Sweden at end of XIX century Cycling instantly adopted by citizens as a way of Moving and posing Mostly Italian bicycles and French bicycles

10 Shkodra s Cycling Culture in the early days First woman to cycle employed in Austrian Consulate in 1910 s

11 Shkodra s Cycling Culture in the early days Cycling institutinalized

12 Mobility Revolution (Communist Era) Car ownership was forbidden Cycling everywhere In Albania Shkodra remained the Capital of Bicycles Mostly Albanian and East European Bicycles After 60-s a lot of China produced bicycles

13 Mobility Revolution (Communist Era) Wide Boulevards: Wide sidewalks for walking Asphalt for cyclists Zebra crossings made no sense

14 Mobility Revolution (Communist Era) Tirana 1987

15 Mobility Revolution (Communist Era) Shkodra 1987

16 From Revolution to Repollution? Postcomunist Era (after1991) Open Market Trying to Modernize the Country Car seen as status, as Western, as Freedom, as Progress and Bicycle as a symbol of poverty and non-modern Everything done during Comunism times became outdated and wrong

17 From Revolution to Repollution? Postcomunist Era (after1991) Economy in Transition Tirana and other cities lost their cycling culture Mercedes everywhere and the raising number of cars became a matter of pride Car oriented policies

18 From Revolution to Repollution? Why Shkodra did preserve its cycling culture? established cycling culture excentrism and selfconfidence Pragmatism But also : lack of economic development Floods in Shkodra 2010

19 From Revolution to Repollution? Local government : lack of confidence and confusion regarding policies on mobility Proud of cycling, but investments in road s modernization (car oriented) Extention of promenades, but not seeing urban mobility as a city wide challenge Road infrastructure seen as a magnet for investments Municipality of Shkodra 2010

20 Shkodra s modal split, 2011 Household travel survey School & company travel surveys and BYPAD Audit REPORT 44 % Walking 29 % Cycling 3 % Public Tranport 73% Active, Clean and sustainable transport 24 % 29 % 44 %

21 Shkodra s phenomenon of Sharing urban streets

22 Sharing urban streets in practice in Shkodra

23 Sharing urban streets: a matter of equilibrium between two opposites respect & tolerance self confidence & pride survival of the fittest (strongest) arrogance

24 Sharing urban streets: a matter of equilibrium between two opposites Flexibility Perceived safety

25 Sharing urban streets: a matter of equilibrium between two opposites streets belong to cars to active modes

26 Sharing urban streets : a matter of equilibrium between two opposites stressed behavior relaxed behavior

27 Sharing urban streets: a matter of equilibrium between two opposites Semisegregating integrating

28 Sharing urban streets : a matter of equilibrium between two opposites Behavior by prescribed legal rules Behavior by social adaptation and mutual respect

29 Sharing urban street rules in Shkodra Cycling on sidewalks perceived as rude and unpolite behavior! Parking on sidewalks is OK! (plenty of bike racks) Cycling on the promenade full of people is arrogant Counter flow cycling is accepted by police Don t cycle too fast

30 Shared space rules in Shkodra Zebra crossings looks nice on asphalt You see the driver, but pretend you don t see him, so he will care for you (he will stop and let you go). When you re totally wrong, raise your hand (as a sign between sorry & hi ) and smile. Respect drivers! (not cars) This license plate is dangerous

31 How does it work? Are these informal strict rules effective?

32 How does it work? Are this strict rules effective? There is still space for improvement, but they rock as Hell!

33 pedestrians parking cars cars cars parking cars pedestrians How does it work? What does the traffic planners pretend...

34 pedestrians parking cars cars cars parking cars pedestrians How does it work? What does the traffic planners pretend...

35 How does it work? Cyclists squat what already is theirs! cars bike cars cars bike bike cars parking pedestrians bike bike

36 How does it work? Shkodrans takes traffic very personally! Everyone is a cyclist, pedestrian and often driver too (if not himself, friends and relatives)

37 How does it work? They believe in (traffic) tolerance In general the drivers in Shkodra are respectful and understanding due to high cycling share and culture Cutting the main square (designed as a junction

38 Sharing urban streets (Strength) Transforming junctions into squares Conflictual in appearance, but very communicative City center functioning fine

39 Sharing urban streets (Strength)

40 Sharing urban streets (Strength) Fits perfectly well with local culture of cycling Traffic engineers tend to introduce segrating measures

41 Sharing urban streets (Threat) Car traffic growing Problems with parking and raised number of accidents

42 Sharing urban streets (Threat) Enforcement No immunuty against irresponsible drivers

43 Sharing urban streets (Threat) Cyclists may be soon on defense Cyclists may be soon marginalised (cf Tirana) Fragile co-existence at growing car traffic

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45 Future urban mobility scenarios (1) Segregated urban travel behaviour? or Sharing urban streets? or Semi segegration?

46 Future scenarios Existential dilemma for our cycling culture Preserve the sharing urban street behavior in the city centre? within the city center

47 or?

48 Future scenarios Existencial dilemma for our cycling culture Go for segregation? (Naively popular solution)

49 Future scenarios Existencial dilemma for our cycling culture Why not segregation? It s not actually working Will definitely raise the conflicts in road traffic Road accidents number will rise

50 Future urban mobility scenarios (1) Segregated urban travel behavior? or Sharing urban streets? or Semi segegration? Sharing space in car restricted city centre + 30 km/h Seperated cycle network towards the city and on ring road safer ring road crossings

51 Future urban mobility scenarios (2) Trend scenario? (doubling / trippling of cars) or SUMP scenario? preserve compact city car access restriction maintain high active modes level Public space rehab Paid parking & parking management Ring optimization

52 Other challenges... Still the economy is going low Local cycling team is practically ran by passion. No wages for sport cyclists. The same thing for our mobility NGO GO2 Still waiting if Shkodra wins an IPA project for SUMP Modernization of cycling infrastructure needed

53 Thank you! For choosing bicycle to fly in our city! Shkodra Cycling Airways