BaltiCCycle news (English) 08(1)/09: Already signed www.dviratis.lt/deklaracija?

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Dear future and former BaltiCCyclists!

Forget the crisis – think about the summer and become a cyclist … Like so many here … Well, we did not become an Amsterdam (or: Copenhagen) of the East yet – but we are on our way ...

It's probably the first time that we can present you a declaration of Cyclists' groups from the new member states of the European Union addressing their particular problems: It's the “Declaration of the Velomanija Vilnius”; You may sign it online here:

www.dviratis.lt/deklaracija

more below … We'll remind the city of Vilnius for “Car free day” on September, 19^th on it...

 

Your Cycling
The German Lithuanian,

Frank “Frankas” Wurft, M.A., frankas@balticcycle.eu

Vilnius/Hannover www.BaltiCCycle.eu

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ACTUALLY:

2009-08-16 (VII) Lithuanian Cyclists' marathon, 3^rd stage
in – Anykščiai, Hipodrom Niūroniai, 16^th of August . More: http://www.mtb.lt/index.php/pageid/266

 

The Njuvs

 

• Youth week and declaration “Velomanija Vilnius 2009”

The "Declaration of the Velomanija Vilnius 2009" is the result of a workshop during the same named youth week in and around the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. It had around 30 participants from cyclists or traffic orientated organisations from Poland (Torun an Szczecin), Czech Republic (Prague) and Lithuania (Vilnius). There were as well single participants from Slovakia, Germany and Austria.
The declaration is a common work thus the background of the participants is quite different. It is probably the first time that such document shows a consensus making conclusions from our personal experiences as cyclists in cities of Central and Eastern Europe.

Sign it here:

www.dviratis.lt/deklaracija

The declaration exists by now in Lithuanian, Polish, German and – of cause – English.

 

If you want to add another language, just send the text to Frankas@bicycle.lt

And here's the version with comments and explanations(in English only):

http://wiki.dviratis.lt/tiki-index.php?page=Velomanija_Declaration_Commented_Version

 

Here an overview of the press reactions.

http://groups.google.lt/group/velomanijavilnius/edit/velomanija-in-the-press

 

Pictures from the “VELOMANIJA 2009 Vilnius

http://picasaweb.google.com/velomanija

 

Pictures from our friends from Torun/Poland:

http://rowerowytorun.com.pl/index.php?akcja=&art_id=6&id_news=169
Here is something about the bicycle infrastructure of Vilnius:
http://rowerowytorun.com.pl/rowerowa-infrastruktura-wilno,499,l1.html
Photos form Critical Mass are here:
http://rowerowytorun.com.pl/masa-krytyczna-wilno-lipiec-2009,498,l1.html
Sorry, everything in polish  :) 

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Cycle routes plans in Kaunas

 

a step ahead in the second biggest city in Lithuania: There is a new bicycle path from the Old town to the lake at Lampedziai and the corrected detailed plans of the city's are online ready for critics:

http://www.tpi.vgtu.lt/?id=14727.23742

1. Bicycle parking:
http://www.vgtu.lt/upload/tpi/kauno_dvir_t_stovejimo%20aikstel.pdf

2. Bicycle routes:
http://www.vgtu.lt/upload/tpi/kauno_dvir_t_trasu%20parinkimo%20schema.pdf

There is a discussion on it in the Lithuanian Cyclists' forum,

http://www.gerasdviratis.lt/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=13742&start=0

a general overview in the BaltiC Cyclists' Wiki on
http://wiki.dviratis.lt/tiki-index.php?page=kaunas

 

 

Do we need a self-service bicycle system?

 

This is the proposed question on www.dviratis.lt .

 

The plans for such a system were presented from the head of the public transport system of Vilnius, Vaidotas Antanavičius, to the participants of the “Velomanija”, here the presentation (I am afraid in Lithuanian):
http://groups.google.lt/group/velomanijavilnius/web/Dviraciai%202009%2007%2031.ppt

a discussion on it in the Lithuanian Cyclists' forum:

http://www.gerasdviratis.lt/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=13652

 

(more background news in the Lithuanian Newsletter)

 

LATVIA:

Cycle tour Riga-Ventspils starts this weekend,

15^th – 23^rd of August,

average 52 km per day, participation fee 27 Ls (ca. 40 EURO...

more: http://vic.velokurjers.lv/bicycle/#svetcelojums

 

 

Rail connection Riga-Ventspils

Hurrah! There is a train connection between the capital Riga and the sea port of Ventspils. Unfortunately only 1 x per day and direction....

 

New page on the ferry connection to Liepaja
+ http://liepajaferry.com/

more on the http://wiki.dviratis.lt page “Transport”

Movie Cycling Lithuania and Latvia Part 1 of 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1cmuBQhG_0

 

 

Smoll Stuff

 

2009-09-19 On “European car free day“ as well the president Dalia Grybauskaite and the prime minister Andrius Kubilius are welcomed
… both are known as cyclists. By now there is only this official article:

http://www.delfi.lt/news/economy/automoto/article.php?id=23414676

 

We're working on an “unofficial” NGO- programme ...

 

 

2009-08-11 Two Italians are cycling from Sweden to Georgia … via Vilnius (Videonews)

http://www.lrytas.lt/videonews/?id=12499180551248041228&sk=5

… they claim: for an ecological lifestyle you don't have to wait for EU regulations ...

 

2009-08-09 Cycle tour "The Baltic Way" – for it's 20^th jubilee (2009-8-9 to 23)
… on it's way, see (in English as well):

http://www.jalle.lt/baltijos_kelias/?page_id=5

I don't know more, but maybe my information level will change...

 

 

2009-07-27 A video report from the prime minister's cycle trip through Lithuania (in Lithuanian)

http://www.lrytas.lt/videonews/?id=12487037801248257255

 

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 Frank "Frankas" Wurft, M.A. (Deutsch, English, Lietuviskai, Francais, Esperanto)

 

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