Cycling in Cologne

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Cycling in Cologne is a common way of getting around Cologne , the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia . Bicycle traffic in Cologne has a share of 14% in the modal split . Bicycle traffic in Cologne is growing steadily.

Promotion of the cycling infrastructure

Cyclists in Cologne
Remembering Miriam S., victim of an illegal street race in Cologne in April 2015

The city of Cologne has been a founding member of the working group for pedestrian and bicycle-friendly cities, municipalities and districts in North Rhine-Westphalia (AGFS) since 1993.

In 2016 the city presented a bicycle traffic concept. The concept plans to reduce car traffic by a third by 2025. The city of Cologne is criticized in the press for the slow implementation.

A cycle expressway from Cologne to Frechen is planned for better connections to the surrounding area. The city of Cologne, however, came third from last among cities with more than 200,000 inhabitants in a 2017 survey on bicycle friendliness by the General German Bicycle Club (ADFC). In the survey from 2018, Cologne deteriorated and came in last.

Since 2016, the Cologne Rings have been redesigned to be bike-friendly. The plan is for a complete and largely standardized cycle path by converting the right-hand lane and one lane exclusively for cycle traffic as well as Tempo 30. Completion will take place in 2020. The trigger for this measure was the #RingFrei initiative ; for this she was awarded the German Bicycle Prize 2019 in the "Communication" category.

The initiative “Forum free cargo bikes - Dein-Lastenad.de” was also awarded the German Bicycle Prize 2019 in the “Service” category. A from the Cologne association wielebenwir e. V. initiated a free cargo bike system that now provides more than 180 cargo bikes to over 10,000 users across Germany.

Special routes

Bicycle expressways

The cycle expressway network to and from Cologne is in the planning stage:

  • Cycle expressway Cologne - Frechen (in planning)
  • Cycle expressway Cologne - Bergisch Gladbach (planned)
  • Cycle expressway Cologne - Bonn

Long-distance cycle routes

Several cycle paths lead through, start or end in Cologne, including:

Numbers and Statistics

In 2008 the city of Cologne set up "permanent counting stations" for bicycle traffic in the city area. Between 2009 and 2012, cycling increased by 20 percent. There are now eleven counting stations. The data (daily values, average values ​​and total number) can be called up on the Internet using an interactive map.

Associations, initiatives

Bicycle demonstrations, forms of action

Recurring

Unique

  • First Cologne bicycle demonstration: "Cologne on the bike ... so that the city doesn't get under the wheels!" On October 17, 1992 with 1,000 participants
  • “Cologne on the bike - ring free for cyclists” on May 8, 1993 with 2,000 participants
  • “Obstacles over bridges” on May 7, 1994 with 2,000 participants
  • "Stop killing cyclists" on October 7, 2015 with 480 participants
  • The ADFC Cologne demonstrated at the Hansaring for a protected cycle lane on October 29, 2016
  • "We do the #RingFrei" on September 16, 2017 with 800 participants
  • Bicycle demonstration "Protect the climate - initiate the traffic turnaround" from Cologne to Bonn on the occasion of the World Climate Conference on November 4, 2017 with more than 1,000 participants
  • Departure bicycle - bicycle rally: "Handing over the signatures in front of the state parliament" planned for June 2, 2019
  • First "Cologne Naked Bike Ride" planned for July 12, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cycling concept for downtown Cologne
  2. ↑ Cycling concept for downtown Cologne
  3. ↑ Hardly any space for cyclists in Cologne ( Memento from March 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), on wdr.de
  4. ↑ Cologne-Frechen The planned express cycle route is slowly taking shape
  5. ^ Controversy over bicycle traffic in Cologne
  6. ↑ City of Cologne, Continued positive development in bicycle traffic , March 12, 2013
  7. ^ City of Cologne, New service for permanent counting stations for bicycle traffic
  8. ↑ a b c Rheinschiene 21 edition 21/1998. In: VCD-Chronik 1988 - 1998. VCD-Köln, accessed on April 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Tim Stinauer: Protest cyclist demo after serious turning accidents in Cologne. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. October 7, 2015, accessed May 25, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Cologne Hansaring: ADFC demonstrates for protected bicycle lanes. In: Kölner Stad-Anzeiger. October 29, 2016, accessed May 25, 2019 .
  11. ↑ World Climate Conference More than a thousand bicycle demonstrators drive from Cologne to Bonn. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. November 4, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Cologne demo planned to protect cyclists. In: WDR. May 20, 2019, accessed May 25, 2019 .