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You risk your life every training ride”: #TadejPogačar blasts “criminal” Italian traffic and promises to “stay away from those roads for a while”
#Italy is pushing green #transport like #bicycling but has forgotten to install the #bikelanes” 🚲 🇮🇹 https://road.cc/news/tadej-pogacar-blasts-criminal-italian-traffic

#Paris Votes for People-First Streets — Again
“Victorious Socialist candidate Emmanuel Grégoire arrived to give his victory speech riding a #bicycle” 🚲 🇫🇷 https://momentummag.com/paris-votes-for-people-first-streets-again/

“You risk your life every training ride”: Tadej Pogačar blasts “criminal” Italian traffic and promises to “stay away from those roads for a while” after Milan-Sanremo win

Tadej Pogačar has spent a sizeable chunk of his recent winters training along the Italian Riviera, as part of his almost evangelical mission to add Milan-Sanremo to his bulging, history-making palmares.But now, following his enthralling, long-awaited triumph at La Primavera on Saturday, the world champion has promised his partner, fellow pro cyclist Urška Žigart, that ... Read more

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> #Italy is pushing green #transport like #bicycling but has forgotten to install the #bikelanes”

Italian here, this is simply false. The government has been consistently de-funding cycling project since day 1.

https://www.greenme.it/mobilita/bici/non-e-un-paese-per-bici-litalia-non-investe-nemmeno-1-euro-per-le-ciclabili-nelle-citta/

Transport minister is and has always been against cycling and tryes all the time to introduce laws against it

https://www.editorialedomani.it/idee/commenti/la-crociata-di-salvini-contro-le-bici-e-le-piste-ciclabili-emktdny5

Pogacar is completely right about the topic, he saw what I see every day in Italy: discrimination, violence, anger against people using bicycles

Non è un Paese per bici, l'Italia non investe nemmeno 1 euro per le ciclabili nelle città

Nel testo della legge di bilancio spunta il definanziamento del Fondo per la ciclabilità urbana: dall’1 gennaio zero euro per nuove ciclabili.

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