The rental and promotion of cargo bikes in the city of Fürstenfeldbruck has now been awarded.
As part of the municipal climate conference in Berlin, the large district town received an award in the “Climate-friendly mobility” category.
Fürstenfeldbruck - The prize money of 25,000 euros is to be reinvested in the rental bike project.
The city is currently making two e-cargo bikes available to its citizens - free of charge for up to three days. One is in the city library at Bullachstrasse 26, the other in the town hall branch at Niederbronnerweg 3. The small vehicle fleet is now to be supplemented by two more cargo bikes. "We also want to create an online platform for lending and need new locations for the other bikes," says Brucks Mayor Erich Raff.
The whole thing is financed with the prize money that the city received for handling cargo bikes.
Not only the loan system was recognized, but also the funding program for the purchase of such bikes.
The city spends 25 percent, a maximum of 1,000 euros, when a citizen buys a new e-cargo bike.
For the Federal Environment Ministry and the German Institute for Urban Studies, this was worth the award of one of the three prizes in the “Climate-friendly mobility” category.
Combined both
The bicycle was not reinvented, as the city's bicycle traffic officer, Claudia Gessner, says: "There are municipalities that lend cargo bikes and there are municipalities that encourage the purchase of cargo bikes." But Bruck is probably one of the first cities to which combines both. The idea: people should get to know the advantages of the means of transport through the loan and then ideally decide to buy it themselves - with an additional incentive through the subsidy.
This works, as Raff has observed: "Parents take their children to school with the cargo bike, others use it for trips to the recycling center." Around 40,000 euros have already been tapped from the fund of 50,000 euros.
Many journeys in Bruck between two and five kilometers are now made with cargo bikes.
"A very big contribution to climate protection," says Raff.
For the climate protection officer Thomas Müller, the award is "a great honor, but also an incentive to continue".
Climate-friendly mobility makes an important contribution to climate protection.
The city is on the right track.
“We want to continue on this path,” says Müller.
