Safe streets for children: Wiener Grätzl Kidical Mass on May 10th!

Safe streets for children: Wiener Grätzl Kidical Mass on May 10th!

On May 10, 2025 from 3 p.m., the third Viennese Grätzl Kidical Mass takes place, an event that works for child -safe cycle paths in Vienna. According to ots, the activities are aimed at children, parents and supporters: inside who cycle through the city on 20 child-friendly routes. The aim of the initiative is to demand safe roads so that children can easily be mobile on the bike.

The organizer Florian Klein from the Radlobby Vienna emphasizes that all routes are secured by the police to ensure the safety of the participating children and families. The routes are child -friendly and offer easy coping for smaller cyclists: inside. The central demands include wider cycle paths, clear intersections and traffic -calmed zones near schools and kindergartens.

with successful forerunners

The importance of such events is also very interested in the last Kidical Mass, which took place last weekend. Over 1200 participants, including many children, cycled together from the museum district to Auer-Welsbach-Park. This demonstration aimed to emphasize the need for a safe bicycle infrastructure, which was also supported by [Radlobby] (https://www.radlobby.at/Wien/2024-09/das-war-september-kidical-mass-Wien).

Events such as the Kidical Mass are not only festivities, but also a call to call. Adults help as folders to ensure security, and it is cycled at a cozy pace so that families and friends can always take part. Florian Klein emphasizes the need for a child -friendly wheel infrastructure and demands more brave and timely transport policy from the next government.

The way to secure cycling infrastructures

The promotion of cycling is not only regarded as a local initiative, but as an essential part of a sustainable turnover of traffic. According to mobility forum, well-developed bike infrastructures play a central role in climate policy and support tourism. Cities worth living must be bicycle -friendly, which is underpinned by the setting of cycling officers and the development of modern cycling infrastructures in municipalities.

The activity of the citizens: Inside, stronger political support for cycling also requires. The federal government has already launched measures to finance cycling infrastructure in order to increase the quality and safety of wheel networks. A good planning and financing approach is in the foreground to enable complete and direct use for all cyclists: inside. Therefore, participation in the Kidical Mass in Vienna is not only regarded as a celebration of cycling, but as an essential part of the demand for a better and safer infrastructure for everyone.