In fewer than ten years, urban mobility in Seville has been transformed. City residents have been won over to utility cycling, resulting in a tenfold increase in cyclists and fewer traffic jams. The proportion of journeys by bicycle has jumped from 0.2% to 6.6%.
The overall effect of the bicycle plan on Seville has been considerable, with pollution falling for the first time since the 1980s and a notable reduction in congestion. The change in attitude is drastic, too, with politicians and the public alike now viewing cycling as a way of reclaiming the European city from an American-style obsession with cars and roads.
They now want cycling’s share of traffic to grow from 6.6% now to 15% by 2015.
Can Edinburgh learn from this experience?
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