What does the future hold for Dublin as a cycling city? On Friday 23 September, ECF CEO Jill Warren was a keynote speaker at Cycling Solutions Ireland’s “Busine...Jill Warren awards Ireland’s Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Philip Lee LLP with a gold Cycle-Friendly Employer certificate for their commit...
The Flemish cycle highway network in Belgium is the most comprehensive plan to connect cities, towns, suburbs and workplaces across the whole region through hig...ECF looks at the Flemish cycle highway network to highlight the crossover between cycling and TEN-T infrastructure. 49% of the network interacts with TEN-T, emphasising t...
In August 2022, the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility published the General Plan of urban and extra-urban cycling mobility 2022-2024. In line...Persistent efforts and coordination by ECF Member FIAB pay off with the adoption of a cycling plan at the national level. As outlined in our previous report, cohesive gov...
Italian-British couple, Arianna Casiraghi and Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope, along with their dog Zola, cycled 7,237 km to draw a huge shape of a bicycle across the m...Cycling couple break three world records for largest GPS drawing, aiming to raise awareness for cycling's effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions and to build politica...
On 21 November 1997, EuroVelo, the European cycle route network, was launched in Logroño, Spain. Back then the EuroVelo initiative was a mere vision of a dream...ECF is proud to announce that 25 years after its inauguration, a much-requested feature has been unveiled by the EuroVelo Management Team. New downloadable GPX tracks wil...
Amidst record breaking heatwaves, and mounting pressure to address transportation issues. We have been working hard to convince EU decision-makers of the need...ECF has been spending recent weeks pushing for cycling to play a greater role in Europe. The bicycle’s link to European transport policy and the flagship TEN-T network ha...
On 3 June, the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) will host a free webinar featuring numerous cycling and sustainable mobility advocates from around the world...ECF outlines how the bicycle can shape our future for the better, as we count down to World Bicycle Day 2022. Want to find out more? Don’t forget to register for our free...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has forced European governments and citizens to rethink our collective dependence on fossil fuels for Europe’s energy needs. Dep...ECF joins forces with CIE and CONEBI to publish eight recommendations for how the EU, national governments and individuals can use cycling to lessen dependence on fossil...
For the first time after two years, ECF and its member organisations gathered in Berlin for an in-person Annual General Meeting. The meeting was hosted by ECF M...On 6-7 May, over 60 representatives of Europe’s most influential cycling advocacy organisations convened in Berlin for ECF’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2022. ECF welcom...
On Wednesday 23 March, Elke Van den Brandt, the cycling-friendly Mobility Minister of Brussels-Capital Region, was one of several high-level guests at the...Elke Van den Brandt, the Brussels Minister for Mobility, and other high-level speakers spoke at the inauguration of EuroVelo 5 in Brussels, highlighting the importance of...
The European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) has recently published a report on national cycling strategies in Europe. The report, titled "The state of nat...Eight EU member states have made clear references to EuroVelo in their national cycling strategies, setting goals for the further development, promotion, digitalisation a...
The European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) has published a new state-of-the-art report on geometric design standards for cycling infrastructure. The report gathers...ECF releases new report which compiles, compares and analyses 20 national and regional standards and guidelines for geometric parameters of cycling infrastructure across...