Bicycle Mobilityin Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro downtowndowntown.

Arlindo Pereira, March 2014.

Bicycles are already a reality in Rio de Janeiro's Downtown, despite the lack of cycleways.

The challenge is how to deal with the new situations that arise, with quality and safety for everyone and coherence with local and

user needs.

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro downtown

Tram Network (planned for 2016)

Tram + Bus Rapid Transit

And this is what we have had of cycleways!

The original idea was a petition for cycleways in downtown

But why a petition, or a protest, which would probably be ignored, if we can do it better?

Civil Society – NGOs and Cyclists – created acycle network project for

Rio de Janeiro's downtown area

Methodology

Place with data showInvite interested people

Show existent projects and ideas

Centro.

MAM Mauá

Centro.

Pedala Rio - IPP

Centro.

Saens Peña – Praça XV

Centro.

Porto Maravilha

Centro.

Bike Rio

Centro.

Rio Branco

“Olympic Routes” - scheduled for 2016.

Workshop with (big, paper) maps

Place with tables

Asking for online contributions, and mixing them later

Three groups:

- G1 people who use bicycle in the area,

- G2 people who use bicycle somewhere else and would like to use in the area,

- G3 people who don't use bicycle, but would like to.

Four maps:

- M1 Routes used today and desired,

- M2 Origin/destination,

- M3 Bicycle parkings, bicycle shops and support equipment (such as showers, air pumps) existent and desired,

- M4 Existent projects superposed to identify conflict points and connections.

Each group worked for 30 minutes on each map.

Next step, debating the work done and defining points for the support countings.

Now it's time to superpose the maps produced on the workshop with posterior contributions to consolidate the most used and

desired paths.

Antonio

Diogo

Douglas

Edu

Marcos

Marcus

Norton

Tatiana

Thiago

Vinicius

Routes used today

Cleaning the routes the only appeared once

Superposing with the workshop map

Desired routes

Cleaning the routes that only appeared once

Superposing with the workshop map

Used today and desired

Superposing with the workshop map

Workshop result

Simplified workshop result

Downtown of the future

Existent projects superposed to the routes created

“Olympic Routes” superposed to the routes created.

Work

Culture and Leisure

Commerce and Services

Schools

Subway Stations

Mass Transit Stations

Future Bicycle Sharing Stations

Support Counts(counting cyclists for 12h – 7h-19h)

From the 3,000 grand total,only 3% were women :(

40% of the bicycles in downtown area are of services or delivery1 in every 4 bicycles in downtown area are cargo trikes.

Given the big number of trikes found out in downtown area, the cycleway's width must be adequated to these vehicles.

Olympic Routes + Ciclo Rotas Centro

Ciclo Rotas Centro

Field work!

We collected data in 100 points of downtown area, looking for every single segments of the streets.

Different types of bicycle infrastructure

Cycleways

Copacabana

Cyclelanes

Xavier da Silveira street - Copacabana

Urca, Rio de Janeiro

Sharrows

33km for £1.5M

Finished the field work,a new meetup to validate the results.

Study consolidation

Study consolidation

Publicating the work

Exposing the work

Our work in newspapers

Exposing the work in a parking lane that would become is now a cycleway

The project as a book

What is already built

Ciclo Rotas Centro - Rio

Ciclo Rotas Centro - Rio

Ciclo Rotas Centro - Rio

Ciclo Rotas Centro - Rio

arlindo@ta.org.brta.org.br

Thank you!