After Croatia and B&H, the public bike system
Nextbike announces arrival to Slovenia and Serbia. In Cacak, stations are being established, where bicycle renting will be enabled from July 1, and Pozarevac is looking for designers of cycle tracks.
These and similar news, which have been appearing in the media regularly in the past several months are only one of the proofs that cycling is increasingly popular throughout Serbia and that cyclists are trying to get the necessary infrastructure. At the same time, foreign tourists are increasingly interested in
coming to these parts on two wheels.
It seems that these trends have been recognized by the PE Zavod za urbanizam Vojvodine (Urban and Spatial Planning Institute of Vojvodina), whose representatives presented the Study of the Cycle Route Network and Bicycle Centers of the AP of Vojvodina at the recently held Summer School of Urban Planning.
– This study encompasses the entire territory of Vojvodina, with its geographical characteristics of a plain and with several mountain and hill areas, such as Fruska Gora and parts around Subotica and Vrsac. This is a preliminary analysis of the activities carried out so far in implementing cycle routes, corridors and lanes within and outside populated areas. In a way, this is a preparation of the ground for the Provincial administration and the 45 local self-governments encompassed by the study to treat the matter of cycling and cycling tourism with utmost seriousness as an activity which will be very attractive and current in the upcoming period – Zoran Kordic of Zavod za urbanizam Vojvodine explains for eKapija and notes that both the AP of Vojvodina and the Republic of Serbia should recognize considerable benefits of these tourism trends, which are already becoming a standard in Europe, could bring.
In an interview given during the gathering organized by the Serbian Society of Urban Planners and the Republic Geodetic Authority from May 31 till June 2 in the ethno-village of Stanisici near Bijeljina, B&H, Kordic reminds that three cycle corridors pass through Serbia, with sections of all three in Vojvodina as well.
– These are the Danube Corridor, stretching along the length of the Danube (Corridor 6), the Tisa Corridor, along the eponymous river (Corridor 11) and the corridor established several years ago, which the European Cycling Union has named the Iron Curtain, which follows the former dividing line between the two blocs. It also passes through Vojvodina in the area of Vrsac and Bela Crkva. We are also planning the Sava Corridor, as a part of Vojvodina belongs to the Sava basin, which should pass through three states on the Sava's path – Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. We have mentioned it in the study and it will certainly be pronounced an international corridor – Kordic says.