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Synopsis

Construction of a continuous, 60.7 km cycling and pedestrian route that will circle the city and link up with surrounding parks. The loop will connect with the city centre by means of green links. The aim is to create a route that will extend out into secondary routes through surrounding parks, spreading throughout the region along old livestock trails, rural roads and existing cycling routes. This new cycling route will act as a link between currently separated open spaces, parks and sporting areas, a truly structured system for both the city and its outlying community areas. At the same time, the plan calls for replanting and landscape work along a wide swath of the route. The idea is to create varying landscapes along the route, all of which will make up a linear park connecting the green links with the large parks, with the following features:

• a paved surface, including sections of a minimum width of 6 m (4 m for bicycles and 2 m for pedestrians), lined with landscaping, and more developed sections, up to 25 m wide, with trees and gravel walkways for pedestrians,
• rest areas for cyclists (every 2-3 km) and for pedestrians (more frequent),
• complementary information signs (km, services, cyclist route maps, parks, sporting areas, etc.),
• an easily recognisable logotype to give the route its own image,
• 6,000 trees and 330,000 shrubs planted for the first phase alone.

Thanks to its peripheral lay-out, the project will link many of the potential Olympic trial sites, most notably the Olympic Loop located around the Stadium known as the Peineta.

Target groups: all citizens
Fields: walking / pedestrians - cycling

This case study is one of 175 projects from the Smile Project Local Experiences Database listed on this website.