According to the General Urban Plan, there should have been 2021 kilometers of bicycle paths in Belgrade in 324. Now there are only 121 kilometers. The concept that every place in the city can be reached in 15 minutes, which is applied all over the world, is far away
Do you know what the "15 minute city" concept is?
If you live in Serbia, it is very likely that you do not know, because there is no city in the country where most of the places for daily needs and services such as work, shopping, education, health care and leisure are available within a 15-minute walk. by bike or public transport, from any point in the city.
Around the world, 16 cities have been registered that have implemented the "15-minute city" urban concept.
Paris has plans to fully adapt its streets to cyclists by 2026. In Utrecht, the fourth largest city in the Netherlands, anyone can reach essential city amenities in 15 minutes by bike, and the local government has plans to further improve this mobility privilege by 2040.
What about us?
Cities in Serbia show no intention to implement this concept of a sustainable city.
Belgrade and Novi Sad have built approximately 100 kilometers of bicycle infrastructure each, which is about a third of what was foreseen in their planning documents. Pirot, Valjevo, Bor, Smederevo, Prokuplje do not have built bicycle paths.
The length of bicycle paths in 2016 in Belgrade was 65 kilometers, and according to the General Urban Plan, the length of the paths planned for construction in the period from 2016 to 2021 was 259 kilometers. This means that in 2021, 324 kilometers should be built in Belgrade.
Today in Belgrade
There are now 121 kilometers of bicycle paths in Belgrade.
There are almost none in the center, except for about 200 meters in Takovska and Rooseveltova. In the Boulevard of Liberation, the path is part of the carriageway. There are also in Vasina Street. Below Kalemegdan as well, but they are of the recreational type. There are them in Zemun and New Belgrade.
The construction of new and reconstruction of existing paths in Belgrade is foreseen as one of the measures of the Action Plan for the achievement of the goal "Favoring bicycle traffic in everyday movements", as part of the Sustainable Mobility Plan. The dynamics of construction and revitalization are foreseen through three phases, from 2021 to 2030.
Belgrade in the plans
The construction of 504,8 kilometers of bicycle paths is planned, and the Roads of Serbia did not plan to build bicycle paths on state roads in the period from 2019 to 2021.
In December 2021, the city of Belgrade conducted a public procurement procedure for awarding a concession - "Entrusting the management of the public bicycle system in the territory of the city of Belgrade".
The concession was awarded to the Consortium of companies "Helbiz" Belgrade and "Helbiz" Italy. The duration of the concession is 15 years, and its total value is five million euros.
In Serbia, there is no single document that covers bicycle traffic, so it is not easy to influence the development, goals and financing of this type of traffic. For this to happen, many existing laws must be harmonized.
The law on traffic safety is awaiting amendment in which there is a set of measures, positions and articles that should be adapted to European legislation, in order to regulate this. The City of Belgrade has a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, but it is not a binding legal document.
The first bicycle path in Belgrade was built in 1979 from Hotel "Yugoslavia" to Ušće, followed in 1997 by a seven-kilometer long path from the promenade on the Danube Quay to Ada Ciganlija. When it happened to cities across Europe, we better not know.
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