{"id":14788,"date":"2018-04-17T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T11:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/?p=14788"},"modified":"2018-04-17T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T11:52:32","slug":"work-governmental-funding-of-cycle-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/en\/artiklar\/fungerar-statlig-finansiering-av-cykelinfrastruktur\/","title":{"rendered":"Does government funding for bicycle infrastructure work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On May 16, a breakfast seminar on cycling, social economy and financing will be held at the Maritime Administration in Stockholm. We asked the moderator Pelle Envall from the Traffic Investigation Agency to tell us what issues will be dealt with.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who benefits from coming and listening?<\/strong><br \/>\nPeople who are interested in how cycling can contribute to a better society. Those who feel that they dare not cycle in their city because it feels dangerous and unsafe to share space with large and heavy motor vehicles. Those who are afraid to get their bicycle stolen because of lack of good bicycle parking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do you raise specific funding for bicycle infrastructure during breakfast?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is a great need to invest in the bicycle infrastructure in Sweden to make it safer and to make cycling a more enjoyable experience. An analysis carried out by the Traffic Investigation Agency estimates that the cost of developing bicycle lanes in decided Swedish bicycle plans is SEK 40 billion. At the seminar we would like to discuss the role of the state in the future to ensure that infrastructure investments in bicycles can be implemented. Does the state&#039;s financing system work well or does it need to be changed to facilitate cycling infrastructure financing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there any other country that Sweden can learn from?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are several countries to learn from. Some examples are Norway, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. These countries have come further in understanding and acting to build up competence for the development of good quality bicycle infrastructure and to coordinate marketing and infrastructure measures so that people receive information and want to try out offers for new bicycle lanes that are being built. At present, it is not clear which countries will be mentioned during the seminar, but as I said, there are several countries that Sweden can learn from.<\/p>\n<p><em>Date:<\/em> May 16<br \/>\n<em>Breakfast time seminar:<\/em> 08: 00-09: 00 (breakfast from 07:30)<br \/>\n<em>Place<\/em>: Sj\u00f6fartshuset, Skeppsbron 10, Stockholm<br \/>\n<em>organizers<\/em>: Traffic Research Agency, Swedish Cycling Cities, Cykelfr\u00e4mjandet, Swedish Cycling<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSenAxJltLZlmaUhT5LEEAYmmfN3IRtp7qURCEM8CEfVxi9H0w\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to registration<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den 16 maj arrangeras ett frukostseminarium om cykling, samh\u00e4llsekonomi och finansiering p\u00e5 Sj\u00f6fartshuset i Stockholm. Vi bad moderatorn Pelle Envall fr\u00e5n Trafikutredningsbyr\u00e5n ber\u00e4tta om vilka fr\u00e5gor som kommer att avhandlas. Vem har nytta av att komma och lyssna? Personer som \u00e4r intresserade av hur cykling kan bidra till ett b\u00e4ttre samh\u00e4lle. De som k\u00e4nner att [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[142,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","category-nyheter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedenbybike.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}