For short distances it is more efficient if you go on foot! 60% of journeys in Brussels are shorter than 5 km. Brussels Mobility places pedestrians at the heart of its mobility policy and is starting today with a somewhat idiosyncratic awareness-raising campaign.
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"We are all pedestrians! If you see that 38% of the journeys in Brussels are traveled on foot, this is the main Brussels means of transport. It is good for health, for the atmosphere in the city and for the environment and that is why pedestrians are central to the vision of Good Move, our Regional Mobility Plan. And now we are putting those principles into practice in our policy for the execution of works and renovations. "
Awareness raising ...
Steps has been chosen as the main theme of the next Mobility Week, as a connecting element between all the means we use to meet our travel needs (school, work, recreation, shopping). Brussels Mobility also supports a new association platform, walk.brussels, which will be available to the general public at the beginning of the summer. One of the main goals of the non-profit organization behind the platform is to bring the association sector together around everything that is important to pedestrians.
… And infrastructure improvements
A study of 2020 (the Movid-19 survey) shows that the people of Brussels attach increasing importance to steps. 71% of them indicate that the Covid crisis provides an incentive to build wider sidewalks, if necessary by making use of space that was traditionally reserved for the car. The movement on foot is also the starting point of the new Regional Mobility Plan Good Move. Our ambition is to make active travel means the first option for short journeys, with 56% of journeys for distances shorter than 2 km covered on foot or by bicycle. To this end, the Regional Mobility Plan provides, for example, for the construction of 11 km of “pedestrian boulevards” by 2024.
“In parallel with this awareness-raising about foot travel, it is of course essential that efforts are also made to improve the comfort of the pedestrian infrastructure and the accessibility of the public space. Brussels Mobility has therefore already started a multi-year plan for the maintenance of the sidewalks, with a budget of 6 million euros in 2021 "