The people of the Algarve will be challenged to regularly use the bicycle, as a means of day-to-day transport, within the scope of the European Cycling Challenge 2015, to which AMAL – Comunidade Intermunicipal do Algarve recently joined.
This challenge launched to urban cyclists from participating European cities will take place during the month of May.
The initiative was launched in 2011 and its main objectives are to promote the regular use of bicycles among the population and, at the same time, to recognize the roads and streets that will be traveled by bicycle users, through a free smartphone application (Cycling365) , created specifically for the purpose and that can now be downloaded.
«The use of new technologies can be an important tool for the future, since the data collected by the mobile application will offer a description of the spaces and routes taken, allowing to gather a set of information that may come to be useful when it comes to made some intervention in these places, as well as the elimination of existing risks in them», explained AMAL.
As part of this initiative, an Algarve team will be created, which will compete with other European cities and regions in an initiative that annually involves thousands of citizens of different nationalities.
«The city/region that manages to reach the longest distance covered among all the participants, only in daily activities that are not sports-related, is the big winner of this edition», revealed the entity that brings together the 16 Algarve municipalities.
To take this challenge to fruition, AMAL has the support of the Algarve authorities, the GNR, the National Road Safety Authority, the School Establishments Department, the Louletana municipal company Inframoura and the Bicycle Users Federation.
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