Göttingen shines: Another award as a bicycle -friendly city!

Göttingen shines: Another award as a bicycle -friendly city!

Göttingen, Deutschland - Göttingen has achieved another significant success: the city was again recognized as a bicycle -friendly municipality. This honor, which was awarded in Hanover on Monday, December 16, 2024, confirms the continuous efforts of the city to promote cycling. Mayor Petra Broistedt emphasized: "Göttingen is a bicycle city. We do everything for that." The award was handed over by the Lower Saxony Minister of Economics, Transport, Building and Digitization, Olaf Lies, accompanied by other representatives from the city administration, including StadtbaUrat Frithjof Look and the cycling officer Selma Wrobel.

award for sustainable transport infrastructure

The city of Göttingen can refer to a well -developed network of cycle paths, numerous bicycle parking spaces and measures for traffic safety for cyclists. With an impressive proportion of 36 percent in all ways, the bicycle plays a central role in the city's traffic. The new "Schildweg" bicycle road recently opened and the "Dooring Zone" for parked cars was introduced, which further increases the safety of cyclists. These persistent developments show that Göttingen is working seriously on an improvement in the cycling infrastructure, as well as goettingen.de reported.

It is also noteworthy that Göttingen was honored as part of the Wattkrart project for the innovative support of less well -positioned citizens. The jury selected the city due to its successful concepts for social support for the energy transition. On June 17, 2022, climate protection managers Eva Holst and Amelie Möller as well as Dinah Epperlein, the head of the department for sustainable urban development, received a 750WP balcony work as a prize. Great appreciation for the community efforts to implement sustainable solutions and to support the citizens, as wattbewerb.de emphasized.