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Environmental Sustainability and Cycling as a
Transport Mode: Best Practices

Figure 8. Distribution of Urban Bicycle Stations of the
Montreal Bicycle Sharing System Bixi BIXI. (2022b)
The city of Montreal in Canada is one of the world’s cycling cities that
stands out today with its 889 km of cycling path infrastructure. 711 km of these
bike paths are maintained to allow being used for 12 months of the year.
The Bicycle Plan prepared in 2019 aims to plan the cycling route network by
designing improvement routes over the existing cycling route infrastructure.
This plan is updated by the local government every four years (Montreal,
2022). When the modal distribution of urban trips in Montreal is examined,
68% of whole urban trips are made by private vehicle, 5% by bicycle, 24% by
public transport, 2% by walking (Deloitte, 2019b).

• Ankara
Ankara has been chosen as an example of best practices instead of cities
such as Konya and Kayseri which strive to highlight the cycling culture in
Türkiye through the development of cycling route infrastructure, because
planned development steps are taken towards cycling in Ankara as of the
beginning of 2019 and the end of 2022. Ankara has been facing the problem
of car dependency for many years and it ranks as the first city in Türkiye in
terms of ownership of private car per 1000 persons (TURKSTAT, 2022). When
the modal distribution of trips in the city is examined, 38.6% of trips are
made by private cars, 41.8% by public transport (urban rail systems, buses
and minibuses) and 19.6% shuttle vehicles and taxis. In simpler terms, 38.6%
of urban transports are realised by private cars, 61.4% by public transport.
Cycling is not included in the distribution rates because it has not reached a
proportional value (EGO, 2020).

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