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  Public Realm activity in 4I4U: "Actions to raise awareness on urban mobility issues"

  Participants: 90 participants of the Hackathon “Solving city problems regarding urban mobility”, around 3000 UPC students and around 100 anonymous citizens

  Responsibles: Mónica Aguilar, Alexandra Hoesli

  Assistants: Alberto Bazán, Adrian Catalin, Jose Manuel Ordoñez

  Data: 1st November 2022 to 28th February 2022

  Location: Plaça Telecos, Campus Nord, UPC

  The project 4I4U aims to engage young citizens on the mobility of the future, empowering them to become actors for change who participate in the transformation of their cities. We want to encourage them to contribute to improving urban mobility to make cities more livable. We designed two actions carried out in various buildings and prominent spaces on the Campus Nord (UPC) where UPC students, employees, visitors and professors usually spend their time or pass by.

  The first two activities consist on small-scale and temporary changes of the physical environment of the Plaça Telecos in the Campus Nord at the UPC. The low-cost intervention, though, pretend to be a first step to raise long-term awareness regarding urban mobility issues and encourage use of nearby sustainable transportation options around the Campus.

  The two last activities consist on two online forms that helped us to achieve a twofold objective: on the one hand we give informative pills about main issues related to urban mobility; and on the other hand we collect the opinion of the participants about their mobility habits and their personal experience about the problems observed in urban mobility.

  Action 1: 400 adhesives arranged along the Campus Nord (UPC)

  Taking advantage of the celebration of our Hackathon “Solving city problems regarding urban mobility” on November 16th, and the coincidence with the UN Conference on climate change (COP27, from November 6th to 18th), and knowing that the UPC is very involved, we have completed this action in collaboration with UPC Sostenibilitat, and the UPC kindly allowed us to carry out this action at the UPC facilities.

  This way, we count on the 90 participants of the Hackathon, and during 5 minutes they helped us to paste the adhesives following a map, so that each student should quickly paste 1 or 2 adhesives in a given location.

  

  

  

  This is the result of the activity, it was a lot of fun, and many people who passed by asked us about the action and the project. In addition, it was also a kind of very useful icebreaker action at the beginning of the Hackathon.

  

  

  

  We invite you to watch the group shout of the slogan 4I4U, as starting point of the Hackathon.

  Additionally, we placed 200 stickers on the walls of about 30 toilets in buildings A1 to A6 that house the Campus Nord classrooms.

  

  These adhesives include informative pills about urban mobility problems (focusing on pollution and derived serious problems) and we invite people to participate with the 4I4U project by filling in a Form to help improving urban mobility in Barcelona.

  

  

  Action 2: Roll-Up "Project 4I4U-EIT Urban Mobility"

  We prepared 3 roll-up to show them during the Hackathon. Afterwards, we placed them in three very representative places on the Campus Nord, where students pass through: the library, the cafeteria and the classroom corridor. The UPC kindly authorized us to have them there till the end of February 2023. In the roll-up we show all the logos of the participant entities in the 4I4U project and the QR code to invite people to fill in our anonymous form "Helping to improve Urban Mobility in Barcelona".

  

  

  Action 3: Form "UPC Sustainable Mobility - 4I4U Project"

  Additionally, we prepared two forms to gather information about mobility habits in Barcelona. The 1st form was sent to the UPC students of the Master in Urban Mobility of the Urban Mobility Master School-EIT Urban Mobility, and to the participanst of our Activity "UPC Sustainable Mobility". We have 23 answers, being 70% from 18 to 25 years old and 30% from 26 to 35 years old; 61% are male and 39% are female.

  Most of them (around 80%) either use public transport (mainly metro and bus) or walk, and just a few (around 9%) use car, motorbike, e-scooter or e-bicycle. Quite of them (around 25%) use e-bicycle, tram or run.

  

  Action 4: Form "Helping to improve Urban Mobility in Barcelona"

  So far (10th Dec 2022), we have received 80 answers in the Form with very interesting comments, suggestions and reports about urban mobility issues and personal experience about urban mobility in Barcelona. We have disseminated the Form using several means: roll-up, adhesives in the walls of the Campus Nord, email and Tweeter. The age range of the participants is mostly 16-25 (53,2%), being 62,3% male and 37,7% female.

  

  1. How could we decrease the number of vehicles in Barcelona?

  • 41% chose "Car pool or ride sharing instead of driving alone".
  • 87% chose "Improve public transport, for instance Rodalies in the Barcelona metropolitan area or the FGC train network".
  • 54% chose "Consider teleworking or staggering your work hours to avoid jams, wasting gas and pollution during peak rush hours".
  • 68% chose "Walk, ride a bike or use micromobility (e-scooter...) instead of your private car/motorbike".

  Other interesting open suggestions where:

  • Reducing the number of vehicles in the interior of Barcelona requires the creation of vehicle parking areas on the city limits, so that those who come from outside can park and access the interior by public transport.
  • Make car itineraries more difficult, while improving public transport, bikes and PLEVs (Personal Light Electric Vehicles).
  • Change traffic rules to enforce speed and acceleration limits and street design to shorten distances for walking and cycling. This will allow to change traffic signals to be low speed vehicles friendly and discourage the use of private vehicle based on exceeding speed/acceleration limits.
  • More “Superilles” and other traffic limitations during certain days of the week.
  • Improve infrastructure (safe and wide bike lanes). Incentives to use public transport, which should be efficient and fast, with a good frequency; governments must invest more in maintenance.
  • Vehicle usage is determined by the maximum capacity of the roads. The only real way to limit it, is reducing road capacity.
  • Discouraging car use by reducing lanes and restricting some areas only for resident. Urban toll is an option as well.
  • Tax use of car inside the city for non essential vehicules (as London example).
  • Make the electric chargers free of charge to estimulate these cars in front of gasoline cars.

  
  

  2. How could we encourage people to use public transport more?

  • 73% chose "Increasing the offer and frequency of public transport services".
  • 49% chose "Make public transport more cost-effective".
  • 14% chose "Increasing fuel prices to disincentivize driving".
  • 36% chose "Discourage driving by closing streets to cars, and increasing parking prices".
  • 37% chose "Provide discounted bike-share or car-share memberships".
  • 67 % chose "Make transport cheaper for employees/students".
  • 56% chose "Promote active transport (biking, walking, jogging...) with available infrastructure at the workplace/University (showers, lockers, bike rooms...)".

  Other interesting open suggestions where:

  • Make big parking lots in the outskirts of the city to leave the car and reach the downtown in public transportation.
  • Make public transportation free. Improve public transportation infrastructure outside of main metropolitan areas. Enforce safe bike parking zones, get rid of cars in cities. Improve infrastructure for cyclists. Re-instruct pedestrians to learn how to live around bikes.
  • Promote multimobility (e.g., e-scooter + metro).
  • Increasing parking prices and fuel prices will not be efficient because it will allow people with more money to use car, but we need to be all sensitive to the issues of mobility, that is why increasing the offer of public transports and micro mobility is great.
  • Free public transport for students, so that they do not use motorbikes. Also, companies should promote colective transport.
  • Companies should publish an employee's mobility balance, pay employees for 0 emissions commuting, and be taxed by employees emissions.
  • The whole neighboring cities (metropolitan area) should implement bike lanes to allow connectivity between them.
  • Use collected data to check the increase of passengers during the current half discounts of tickets and set a new price when the offer is finished, based on n° tickets sold per price (between current and previous).

  
  

  3. Did you know you are exposed to dangerous pollutants while moving around Barcelona? Check the box if you knew it. (PM=Particulate Matter). You can read more in aqicn.org and www.iqair.com.

  • PM10 (diameter < 10 micron) float in the air and easily penetrate the human body.
    
  • PM2.5 (diameter < 2.5 micron) penetrate our respiratory system and the smallest particles can enter our blood vessels, lungs and heart. 
  • PM1 (diameter < 1 micron) can contribute to the development of deadly diseases such as heart attacks, lung cancer, and other serious diseases that lead to premature death.
    
  • NO2 causes respiratory problems and respiratory infections after longer exposure.
  • CO2 cause headache, nausea, dizziness and repeated long-term exposure can lead to heart disease.

  The responses show that only about half of the participants were aware of the health effects of these dangerous pollutants:

  • Only 54% knew that 20.8% of PM10 and PM2.5 comes from traffic.
  • 64% knew that PM10 produce eye & throat irritation, coughing and asthma.
  • 64% knew that PM2.5 produce aggravated asthma andchronic respiratory diseases.
  • Only 44% knew that the concentration of PM2.5 in Barcelona (9 microgram/m3) is currently 1.8 times higher than the annual WHO air quality guideline value (5 microgram/m3).

  
  

  4. Do you have any smart idea how the mobility and pollution issues in cities could be improved?

  5.  Have you observed any difficulty in moving around Barcelona?

  Dark zones in some areas while going on my PLEVs (Personal Light Electric Vehicles) e-Scooter

  Some zones still lack good, safe and connected infrastructure for bikes while others are starting to overcrowd. Building/increasing capacity of bike lanes will improve sustainable mobility in the city.

  Barcelona city like most cities was designed to allow high speed >30km/h vehicles. Now we should redesign streets and crossings for walking and low speed vehicles. To deal with traffic jams and traffic lights many vehicles use fast acceleration and braking, becoming much more pollution emissors and energy consumers than expected by authorities. This could be alleviated with public buses and taxis, with less private vehicle. These public transport should smooth rides and improve average speed in Barcelona.

  No, currently I do not use public transportation in my daily trip, I found out that discovering the city while walking is more attractive and healthy for me.

  I move using public transport and in this case the only problema is the low frequency. and the difficulty to find in google maps alternatives to combine public transport and walk.

  The metro doesn't work at night.

  Depends on the time of the day. The main problem I would say is entering the city from outside

  Yes, in peak hours or sometimes in public transportation

  Moving around Barcelona by car is a nightmare, but it can sometimes be more comfortable thn taking public transport

  not really, Barcelona is fine. Moving outside Barcelona is worst (the outer part of Barcelona is also bad connected)

  Too noisy to walk around.

  i noticed the difficulty to park

  I am very happy with my bike

  The new structure of bus with notation V1, V2, H1, H2, etc. is confusing

  It's difficult to move as a pedestrian. Traffic lights give priority to cars over walkers. Bikes and mainly scooters don't respect pedestrians.

  Yes the frequency

  Sí, moltes ... bicicletes i patinets no tenen el seu espai natural ni està regulada la seva circulació (o no es respecta) i envaeixen l'espai del vianant. Per no parlar de com estan dissenyats els carrils bici ... Les persones amb mobilitat reduïda, ho tenen francament malament. Estacionament puntual pel transport de mercaderies ... un drama, sempre estacionats damunt les voreres!

  Bike lanes do not impede cars from entering them. It is common for cars to stop at bike lanes.

  Yes: it is increasingly difficult and uncomfortable to move around Barcelona by any means (walking, car, motorcycles, ...)

  L9 completition would solve many of my mobility issues withing the city

  Toda la gestion de movilidad que se está haciendo de Barcelona está contribuyebdi a un efecto contrario al buscado ya que se parte del criterio de pensar que la gente debe y puede dejar de utilizra el coche. BCNA es el centro neurálgico de la AMB donde cada dia la cantidad de desplazamientos para trabajar obliga a utilizar los coches ya que no hay accceso a muchos centros indstriales. Pot otra pacificar calles para trasladar el problema a la de al dado lo único que produce son mayores problemas de circulación. És fácil comprobar como calles en que es transito estaba controlado ahora es un caos debido al culo de botella de pasar de dos carriles a 1 solo. La ronda de BCNA se ha quedado pequeña.

  Habitualmente mucha gentes estaba dejando los coches accediendo por la ronda a sectres en que ahí mismo habia metro para luego desplazarse en transporte púbica y desde el Ayuntamiento deciden que ya no se va a poder aparcar en esas zonas lo que motiva que ahora esten entrando en coche o haciéndoles pagar parkings ya que el que se desplaza de esta manera es porque no siempre se puede hacer des de cercanias. Es decir que se toman decisiones antes de pensar que el problema de BCNA no es que la gente de aquí sea idiota y se esté paseando con el coche sino que la mayoria viene de fuera en la gestión diaria de trabajo, solo hay que ver la evolucion de transito por las horas punta o como cambian en el domingo. Si no hay las infrastructuras de parkings en las afueras de la ciudad para que luego la gente se pueda desplazar hacia el interior mediante transporte público poca cosa se podra resolver. Yo utilizo siempre transporte publico por BCNA y mi coche solo tiene un uso de trabajo cuando debo salir fuera de BARNA, Pues cada vez que lo cojo , de manera necesaria no me quita nadie tenen luego más de 1 hora de transito para poder llegar a casa, entre obras y reducción de carriles, Es que hay que entender que la capitalidad de la ciudad motiva unas necesidades de movimiento que van ligadas a su propia envergadura económica de pais, Y aqui sin prever estos lo unico que importa es quitar carriles cuando no está resuelta la movilidad del exterior que deberia ser la principal.

  Los radares

  parked cars in the road to deliver gods, narrow sidewalks, lack of bicycling roads in some parts

  Not at all. However, delay time by buses especially (night buses) is usually a pain.

  Only when biking to certain areas.

  Too many cars.

  Of course, during peak hours public transport and main roads are saturated

  Private motor vehicles are not just polluting the city, but are also a danger tue to high speeds and lack of respect for other types of mobility (walking, cycling)

  I observed difficulties for moving directly among the cities rounding Barcelona, since often the only available possibility is to go to Barcelona, increasing the commutation time and the congestion in Barcelona itself.

  Yes cars try to kill me and pedestrians keep trying to get killed because they trust their ear too much when jaywalking through bike lanes.

  
  

  But it's great compared to other cities in Spain.

  no (I don't have a car)

  Yes I avoid taking buses sometimes because I know they are very busy at times. There are also little to no parking for bicycles which is why I dont have a bike here

  The streets are full of cars, taxis and vans making constant small deliveries and blocking streets.

  1) The Vans doing deliveries or loadings and unoloading need to be more controlled by the local police with fines when they are more than 2 minute blocking the street.

  2)Taxis shall to be able to only stop in certain places. Reduce the amount of taxis allowed in the city should also be a priority, sometimes the streets are full of free taxis just increasing the jams.

  3) Big buses of two sections empty are blocking streets when turning. I think the best would be to place double buses over periods of high demand, and individual ones when the demand is lower.

  4) There are bike lanes in very fast streets such as Carrer Aragó which is an absolute disparate and a clear hazard for cars, motorbikes, bike riders or even pedestrians

  Fear in some areas

  Yes, especially at night it's easier and faster to take a taxi than to take the public transport. Also, the bici bikes are often not available because of charging (they have so much power, that the battery drains fast and they have to charge often).

  Of course, always jamm traffic

  With the amount of traffic in the mornings, it's very slow to get from one place to another in the city.

  During rush hour in the morning, parents that send their kids to school with their private vehicle occupy the public transport lane increasing the travel time of the bus.

  
  

  
  

  6.  Do you have proposals of a kind of service offered to get home safely at night? This is a worrying problem especially for women. More info: Women in Urban Mobility - EIT Urban Mobility and YourWayHome   

  • Going to the roots of the problem: increase people values and education. Education campaigns at Schools, show how bad and dangerous these acts (scare and harass women) are.
  • More buses at night, maybe smaller (e.g., electric). On demand bus from places with night activity to the rest of the city. Night buses with stop on demand (in front of home) specially for vulnerable people (women, LGBTI, autistic...).
  • Free taxi or taxi discounts for women at night.
  • APP for calling service that connects people safely and can help them walk or use micro-mobility together.
  • APP for service to bring safe women to their home at night.
  • Lightning improvement in the streets and parks, more cameras, more surveillance, make it easier to report these kind of acts.
  • More severe sentences and punishments for the offenders of this type of acts.
  • More police and security in the streets and in the metro stations at nigth.

  
  

  7.  Do you think that actions like this to create awareness in the Society should be done more frequently? 97% said Yes.

  
  

  Action 5: Suggestion of installing a bicicling service in the campus. Additionally, we have proposed to the Bicing company the installation of a bicing stop inside the Campus. In any case, there are already four very close bicing stops (4 to 6 min walk) around the Campus, although a bicing stop on the Campus would further encourage UPC students to use them. Also, we have suggested UPC Sostenible that they also request the new bicing stop from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) itself.

• 87% chose "Improve public transport, for instance Rodalies in the Barcelona metropolitan area or the FGC train network".
• 54% chose "Consider teleworking or staggering your work hours to avoid jams, wasting gas and pollution during peak rush hours".
• 68% chose "Walk, ride a bike or use micromobility (e-scooter...) instead of your private car/motorbike".

Other interesting open suggestions where:

• Reducing the number of vehicles in the interior of Barcelona requires the creation of vehicle parking areas on the city limits, so that those who come from outside can park and access the interior by public transport.
• Make car itineraries more difficult, while improving public transport, bikes and PLEVs (Personal Light Electric Vehicles).
• Change traffic rules to enforce speed and acceleration limits and street design to shorten distances for walking and cycling. This will allow to change traffic signals to be low speed vehicles friendly and discourage the use of private vehicle based on exceeding speed/acceleration limits.
• More “Superilles” and other traffic limitations during certain days of the week.
• Improve infrastructure (safe and wide bike lanes). Incentives to use public transport, which should be efficient and fast, with a good frequency; governments must invest more in maintenance.
• Vehicle usage is determined by the maximum capacity of the roads. The only real way to limit it, is reducing road capacity.
• Discouraging car use by reducing lanes and restricting some areas only for resident. Urban toll is an option as well.
• Tax use of car inside the city for non essential vehicules (as London example).
• Make the electric chargers free of charge to estimulate these cars in front of gasoline cars.

2. How could we encourage people to use public transport more?

• 73% chose "Increasing the offer and frequency of public transport services".
• 49% chose "Make public transport more cost-effective".
• 14% chose "Increasing fuel prices to disincentivize driving".
• 36% chose "Discourage driving by closing streets to cars, and increasing parking prices".
• 37% chose "Provide discounted bike-share or car-share memberships".
• 67 % chose "Make transport cheaper for employees/students".
• 56% chose "Promote active transport (biking, walking, jogging...) with available infrastructure at the workplace/University (showers, lockers, bike rooms...)".

Other interesting open suggestions where:

• Make big parking lots in the outskirts of the city to leave the car and reach the downtown in public transportation.
• Make public transportation free. Improve public transportation infrastructure outside of main metropolitan areas. Enforce safe bike parking zones, get rid of cars in cities. Improve infrastructure for cyclists. Re-instruct pedestrians to learn how to live around bikes.
• Promote multimobility (e.g., e-scooter + metro).
• Increasing parking prices and fuel prices will not be efficient because it will allow people with more money to use car, but we need to be all sensitive to the issues of mobility, that is why increasing the offer of public transports and micro mobility is great.
• Free public transport for students, so that they do not use motorbikes. Also, companies should promote colective transport.
• Companies should publish an employee's mobility balance, pay employees for 0 emissions commuting, and be taxed by employees emissions.
• The whole neighboring cities (metropolitan area) should implement bike lanes to allow connectivity between them.
• Use collected data to check the increase of passengers during the current half discounts of tickets and set a new price when the offer is finished, based on n° tickets sold per price (between current and previous).

3. Did you know you are exposed to dangerous pollutants while moving around Barcelona? Check the box if you knew it. (PM=Particulate Matter). You can read more in aqicn.org and www.iqair.com.

• PM10 (diameter < 10 micron) float in the air and easily penetrate the human body.
  
• PM2.5 (diameter < 2.5 micron) penetrate our respiratory system and the smallest particles can enter our blood vessels, lungs and heart. 
• PM1 (diameter < 1 micron) can contribute to the development of deadly diseases such as heart attacks, lung cancer, and other serious diseases that lead to premature death.
  
• NO2 causes respiratory problems and respiratory infections after longer exposure.
• CO2 cause headache, nausea, dizziness and repeated long-term exposure can lead to heart disease.

The responses show that only about half of the participants were aware of the health effects of these dangerous pollutants:

• Only 54% knew that 20.8% of PM10 and PM2.5 comes from traffic.
• 64% knew that PM10 produce eye & throat irritation, coughing and asthma.
• 64% knew that PM2.5 produce aggravated asthma andchronic respiratory diseases.
• Only 44% knew that the concentration of PM2.5 in Barcelona (9 microgram/m3) is currently 1.8 times higher than the annual WHO air quality guideline value (5 microgram/m3).

4. Do you have any smart idea how the mobility and pollution issues in cities could be improved?

5.  Have you observed any difficulty in moving around Barcelona?

Dark zones in some areas while going on my PLEVs (Personal Light Electric Vehicles) e-Scooter

Some zones still lack good, safe and connected infrastructure for bikes while others are starting to overcrowd. Building/increasing capacity of bike lanes will improve sustainable mobility in the city.

Barcelona city like most cities was designed to allow high speed >30km/h vehicles. Now we should redesign streets and crossings for walking and low speed vehicles. To deal with traffic jams and traffic lights many vehicles use fast acceleration and braking, becoming much more pollution emissors and energy consumers than expected by authorities. This could be alleviated with public buses and taxis, with less private vehicle. These public transport should smooth rides and improve average speed in Barcelona.

No, currently I do not use public transportation in my daily trip, I found out that discovering the city while walking is more attractive and healthy for me.

I move using public transport and in this case the only problema is the low frequency. Also, the difficulty to find in Google maps alternatives to combine public transport and walk.

The metro doesn't work at night.

Depends on the time of the day. The main problem I would say is entering the city from outside, specially during peak hours.

Moving around Barcelona by car is a nightmare, but it is more comfortable than taking public transport.

Not really, Barcelona is fine. Moving outside Barcelona is worst (the outer part of Barcelona is bad connected)

I noticed the difficulty to park

I am very happy with my bike

It's difficult to move as a pedestrian. Traffic lights give priority to cars over walkers. Bikes and mainly scooters don't respect pedestrians. Too noisy to walk around.

Sí, moltes ... bicicletes i patinets no tenen el seu espai natural ni està regulada la seva circulació (o no es respecta) i envaeixen l'espai del vianant. Per no parlar de com estan dissenyats els carrils bici ... Les persones amb mobilitat reduïda, ho tenen francament malament. Estacionament puntual pel transport de mercaderies ... un drama, sempre estacionats damunt les voreres!

Bike lanes do not impede cars from entering them. It is common for cars to stop at bike lanes.

Yes, it is increasingly difficult and uncomfortable to move around Barcelona by any means (walking, car, motorcycles, ...)

L9 completition would solve many of my mobility issues withing the city

Toda la gestion de movilidad que se está haciendo de Barcelona está contribuyendo a un efecto contrario al buscado ya que se parte del criterio de pensar que la gente debe y puede dejar de utilizra el coche. BCNA es el centro neurálgico de la AMB donde cada dia la cantidad de desplazamientos para trabajar obliga a utilizar los coches ya que no hay accceso a muchos centros indstriales. Pot otra pacificar calles para trasladar el problema a la de al dado lo único que produce son mayores problemas de circulación. És fácil comprobar como calles en que es transito estaba controlado ahora es un caos debido al culo de botella de pasar de dos carriles a 1 solo. La ronda de BCNA se ha quedado pequeña.

Habitualmente mucha gentes estaba dejando los coches accediendo por la ronda a sectres en que ahí mismo habia metro para luego desplazarse en transporte púbica y desde el Ayuntamiento deciden que ya no se va a poder aparcar en esas zonas lo que motiva que ahora esten entrando en coche o haciéndoles pagar parkings ya que el que se desplaza de esta manera es porque no siempre se puede hacer des de cercanias. Es decir que se toman decisiones antes de pensar que el problema de BCNA no es que la gente de aquí sea idiota y se esté paseando con el coche sino que la mayoria viene de fuera en la gestión diaria de trabajo, solo hay que ver la evolucion de transito por las horas punta o como cambian en el domingo. Si no hay las infrastructuras de parkings en las afueras de la ciudad para que luego la gente se pueda desplazar hacia el interior mediante transporte público poca cosa se podra resolver. Yo utilizo siempre transporte publico por BCNA y mi coche solo tiene un uso de trabajo cuando debo salir fuera de BARNA, Pues cada vez que lo cojo , de manera necesaria no me quita nadie tenen luego más de 1 hora de transito para poder llegar a casa, entre obras y reducción de carriles, Es que hay que entender que la capitalidad de la ciudad motiva unas necesidades de movimiento que van ligadas a su propia envergadura económica de pais, Y aqui sin prever estos lo unico que importa es quitar carriles cuando no está resuelta la movilidad del exterior que deberia ser la principal.

Los radares

parked cars in the road to deliver gods, narrow sidewalks, lack of bicycling roads in some parts

Not at all. However, delay time by buses especially (night buses) is usually a pain.

Only when biking to certain areas.

Too many cars.

Of course, during peak hours public transport and main roads are saturated

Private motor vehicles are not just polluting the city, but are also a danger tue to high speeds and lack of respect for other types of mobility (walking, cycling)

I observed difficulties for moving directly among the cities rounding Barcelona, since often the only available possibility is to go to Barcelona, increasing the commutation time and the congestion in Barcelona itself.

Yes cars try to kill me and pedestrians keep trying to get killed because they trust their ear too much when jaywalking through bike lanes.

But it's great compared to other cities in Spain.

no (I don't have a car)

Yes I avoid taking buses sometimes because I know they are very busy at times. There are also little to no parking for bicycles which is why I dont have a bike here

The streets are full of cars, taxis and vans making constant small deliveries and blocking streets.

1) The Vans doing deliveries or loadings and unoloading need to be more controlled by the local police with fines when they are more than 2 minute blocking the street.

2)Taxis shall to be able to only stop in certain places. Reduce the amount of taxis allowed in the city should also be a priority, sometimes the streets are full of free taxis just increasing the jams.

3) Big buses of two sections empty are blocking streets when turning. I think the best would be to place double buses over periods of high demand, and individual ones when the demand is lower.

4) There are bike lanes in very fast streets such as Carrer Aragó which is an absolute disparate and a clear hazard for cars, motorbikes, bike riders or even pedestrians

Fear in some areas

Yes, especially at night it's easier and faster to take a taxi than to take the public transport. Also, the bici bikes are often not available because of charging (they have so much power, that the battery drains fast and they have to charge often).

Of course, always jamm traffic

With the amount of traffic in the mornings, it's very slow to get from one place to another in the city.

During rush hour in the morning, parents that send their kids to school with their private vehicle occupy the public transport lane increasing the travel time of the bus.

6.  Do you have proposals of a kind of service offered to get home safely at night? This is a worrying problem especially for women. More info: Women in Urban Mobility - EIT Urban Mobility and YourWayHome   

• Going to the roots of the problem: increase people values and education. Education campaigns at Schools, show how bad and dangerous these acts (scare and harass women) are.
• More buses at night, maybe smaller (e.g., electric). On demand bus from places with night activity to the rest of the city. Night buses with stop on demand (in front of home) specially for vulnerable people (women, LGBTI, autistic...).
• Free taxi or taxi discounts for women at night.
• APP for calling service that connects people safely and can help them walk or use micro-mobility together.
• APP for service to bring safe women to their home at night.
• Lightning improvement in the streets and parks, more cameras, more surveillance, make it easier to report these kind of acts.
• More severe sentences and punishments for the offenders of this type of acts.
• More police and security in the streets and in the metro stations at nigth.

7.  Do you think that actions like this to create awareness in the Society should be done more frequently? 97% said Yes.

Action 5: Suggestion of installing a bicicling service in the campus. Additionally, we have proposed to the Bicing company the installation of a bicing stop inside the Campus. In any case, there are already four very close bicing stops (4 to 6 min walk) around the Campus, although a bicing stop on the Campus would further encourage UPC students to use them. Also, we have suggested UPC Sostenible that they also request the new bicing stop from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) itself.

• 87% chose "Improve public transport, for instance Rodalies in the Barcelona metropolitan area or the FGC train network".
• 54% chose "Consider teleworking or staggering your work hours to avoid jams, wasting gas and pollution during peak rush hours".
• 68% chose "Walk, ride a bike or use micromobility (e-scooter...) instead of your private car/motorbike".

Other interesting open suggestions where:

• Reducing the number of vehicles in the interior of Barcelona requires the creation of vehicle parking areas on the city limits, so that those who come from outside can park and access the interior by public transport.
• Make car itineraries more difficult, while improving public transport, bikes and PLEVs (Personal Light Electric Vehicles).
• Change traffic rules to enforce speed and acceleration limits and street design to shorten distances for walking and cycling. This will allow to change traffic signals to be low speed vehicles friendly and discourage the use of private vehicle based on exceeding speed/acceleration limits.
• More “Superilles” and other traffic limitations during certain days of the week.
• Improve infrastructure (safe and wide bike lanes). Incentives to use public transport, which should be efficient and fast, with a good frequency; governments must invest more in maintenance.
• Vehicle usage is determined by the maximum capacity of the roads. The only real way to limit it, is reducing road capacity.
• Discouraging car use by reducing lanes and restricting some areas only for resident. Urban toll is an option as well.
• Tax use of car inside the city for non essential vehicules (as London example).
• Make the electric chargers free of charge to estimulate these cars in front of gasoline cars.

2. How could we encourage people to use public transport more?

• 73% chose "Increasing the offer and frequency of public transport services".
• 49% chose "Make public transport more cost-effective".
• 14% chose "Increasing fuel prices to disincentivize driving".
• 36% chose "Discourage driving by closing streets to cars, and increasing parking prices".
• 37% chose "Provide discounted bike-share or car-share memberships".
• 67 % chose "Make transport cheaper for employees/students".
• 56% chose "Promote active transport (biking, walking, jogging...) with available infrastructure at the workplace/University (showers, lockers, bike rooms...)".

Other interesting open suggestions where:

• Make big parking lots in the outskirts of the city to leave the car and reach the downtown in public transportation.
• Make public transportation free. Improve public transportation infrastructure outside of main metropolitan areas. Enforce safe bike parking zones, get rid of cars in cities. Improve infrastructure for cyclists. Re-instruct pedestrians to learn how to live around bikes.
• Promote multimobility (e.g., e-scooter + metro).
• Increasing parking prices and fuel prices will not be efficient because it will allow people with more money to use car, but we need to be all sensitive to the issues of mobility, that is why increasing the offer of public transports and micro mobility is great.
• Free public transport for students, so that they do not use motorbikes. Also, companies should promote colective transport.
• Companies should publish an employee's mobility balance, pay employees for 0 emissions commuting, and be taxed by employees emissions.
• The whole neighboring cities (metropolitan area) should implement bike lanes to allow connectivity between them.
• Use collected data to check the increase of passengers during the current half discounts of tickets and set a new price when the offer is finished, based on n° tickets sold per price (between current and previous).

3. Did you know you are exposed to dangerous pollutants while moving around Barcelona? Check the box if you knew it. (PM=Particulate Matter). You can read more in aqicn.org and www.iqair.com.

• PM10 (diameter < 10 micron) float in the air and easily penetrate the human body.
  
• PM2.5 (diameter < 2.5 micron) penetrate our respiratory system and the smallest particles can enter our blood vessels, lungs and heart. 
• PM1 (diameter < 1 micron) can contribute to the development of deadly diseases such as heart attacks, lung cancer, and other serious diseases that lead to premature death.
  
• NO2 causes respiratory problems and respiratory infections after longer exposure.
• CO2 cause headache, nausea, dizziness and repeated long-term exposure can lead to heart disease.

The responses show that only about half of the participants were aware of the health effects of these dangerous pollutants:

• Only 54% knew that 20.8% of PM10 and PM2.5 comes from traffic.
• 64% knew that PM10 produce eye & throat irritation, coughing and asthma.
• 64% knew that PM2.5 produce aggravated asthma andchronic respiratory diseases.
• Only 44% knew that the concentration of PM2.5 in Barcelona (9 microgram/m3) is currently 1.8 times higher than the annual WHO air quality guideline value (5 microgram/m3).

4. Do you have any smart idea how the mobility and pollution issues in cities could be improved?

5.  Have you observed any difficulty in moving around Barcelona?

Dark zones in some areas while going on my PLEVs (Personal Light Electric Vehicles) e-Scooter

Some zones still lack good, safe and connected infrastructure for bikes while others are starting to overcrowd. Building/increasing capacity of bike lanes will improve sustainable mobility in the city.

Barcelona city like most cities was designed to allow high speed >30km/h vehicles. Now we should redesign streets and crossings for walking and low speed vehicles. To deal with traffic jams and traffic lights many vehicles use fast acceleration and braking, becoming much more pollution emissors and energy consumers than expected by authorities. This could be alleviated with public buses and taxis, with less private vehicle. These public transport should smooth rides and improve average speed in Barcelona.

No, currently I do not use public transportation in my daily trip, I found out that discovering the city while walking is more attractive and healthy for me.

I move using public transport and in this case the only problema is the low frequency. and the difficulty to find in google maps alternatives to combine public transport and walk.

The metro doesn't work at night.

Depends on the time of the day. The main problem I would say is entering the city from outside

Yes, in peak hours or sometimes in public transportation

Moving around Barcelona by car is a nightmare, but it can sometimes be more comfortable thn taking public transport

not really, Barcelona is fine. Moving outside Barcelona is worst (the outer part of Barcelona is also bad connected)

Too noisy to walk around.

i noticed the difficulty to park

I am very happy with my bike

The new structure of bus with notation V1, V2, H1, H2, etc. is confusing

It's difficult to move as a pedestrian. Traffic lights give priority to cars over walkers. Bikes and mainly scooters don't respect pedestrians.

Yes the frequency

Sí, moltes ... bicicletes i patinets no tenen el seu espai natural ni està regulada la seva circulació (o no es respecta) i envaeixen l'espai del vianant. Per no parlar de com estan dissenyats els carrils bici ... Les persones amb mobilitat reduïda, ho tenen francament malament. Estacionament puntual pel transport de mercaderies ... un drama, sempre estacionats damunt les voreres!

Bike lanes do not impede cars from entering them. It is common for cars to stop at bike lanes.

Yes: it is increasingly difficult and uncomfortable to move around Barcelona by any means (walking, car, motorcycles, ...)

L9 completition would solve many of my mobility issues withing the city

Toda la gestion de movilidad que se está haciendo de Barcelona está contribuyebdi a un efecto contrario al buscado ya que se parte del criterio de pensar que la gente debe y puede dejar de utilizra el coche. BCNA es el centro neurálgico de la AMB donde cada dia la cantidad de desplazamientos para trabajar obliga a utilizar los coches ya que no hay accceso a muchos centros indstriales. Pot otra pacificar calles para trasladar el problema a la de al dado lo único que produce son mayores problemas de circulación. És fácil comprobar como calles en que es transito estaba controlado ahora es un caos debido al culo de botella de pasar de dos carriles a 1 solo. La ronda de BCNA se ha quedado pequeña.

Habitualmente mucha gentes estaba dejando los coches accediendo por la ronda a sectres en que ahí mismo habia metro para luego desplazarse en transporte púbica y desde el Ayuntamiento deciden que ya no se va a poder aparcar en esas zonas lo que motiva que ahora esten entrando en coche o haciéndoles pagar parkings ya que el que se desplaza de esta manera es porque no siempre se puede hacer des de cercanias. Es decir que se toman decisiones antes de pensar que el problema de BCNA no es que la gente de aquí sea idiota y se esté paseando con el coche sino que la mayoria viene de fuera en la gestión diaria de trabajo, solo hay que ver la evolucion de transito por las horas punta o como cambian en el domingo. Si no hay las infrastructuras de parkings en las afueras de la ciudad para que luego la gente se pueda desplazar hacia el interior mediante transporte público poca cosa se podra resolver. Yo utilizo siempre transporte publico por BCNA y mi coche solo tiene un uso de trabajo cuando debo salir fuera de BARNA, Pues cada vez que lo cojo , de manera necesaria no me quita nadie tenen luego más de 1 hora de transito para poder llegar a casa, entre obras y reducción de carriles, Es que hay que entender que la capitalidad de la ciudad motiva unas necesidades de movimiento que van ligadas a su propia envergadura económica de pais, Y aqui sin prever estos lo unico que importa es quitar carriles cuando no está resuelta la movilidad del exterior que deberia ser la principal.

Los radares

parked cars in the road to deliver gods, narrow sidewalks, lack of bicycling roads in some parts

Not at all. However, delay time by buses especially (night buses) is usually a pain.

Only when biking to certain areas.

Too many cars.

Of course, during peak hours public transport and main roads are saturated

Private motor vehicles are not just polluting the city, but are also a danger tue to high speeds and lack of respect for other types of mobility (walking, cycling)

I observed difficulties for moving directly among the cities rounding Barcelona, since often the only available possibility is to go to Barcelona, increasing the commutation time and the congestion in Barcelona itself.

Yes cars try to kill me and pedestrians keep trying to get killed because they trust their ear too much when jaywalking through bike lanes.

But it's great compared to other cities in Spain.

no (I don't have a car)

Yes I avoid taking buses sometimes because I know they are very busy at times. There are also little to no parking for bicycles which is why I dont have a bike here

The streets are full of cars, taxis and vans making constant small deliveries and blocking streets.

1) The Vans doing deliveries or loadings and unoloading need to be more controlled by the local police with fines when they are more than 2 minute blocking the street.

2)Taxis shall to be able to only stop in certain places. Reduce the amount of taxis allowed in the city should also be a priority, sometimes the streets are full of free taxis just increasing the jams.

3) Big buses of two sections empty are blocking streets when turning. I think the best would be to place double buses over periods of high demand, and individual ones when the demand is lower.

4) There are bike lanes in very fast streets such as Carrer Aragó which is an absolute disparate and a clear hazard for cars, motorbikes, bike riders or even pedestrians

Fear in some areas

Yes, especially at night it's easier and faster to take a taxi than to take the public transport. Also, the bici bikes are often not available because of charging (they have so much power, that the battery drains fast and they have to charge often).

Of course, always jamm traffic

With the amount of traffic in the mornings, it's very slow to get from one place to another in the city.

During rush hour in the morning, parents that send their kids to school with their private vehicle occupy the public transport lane increasing the travel time of the bus.

6.  Do you have proposals of a kind of service offered to get home safely at night? This is a worrying problem especially for women. More info: Women in Urban Mobility - EIT Urban Mobility and YourWayHome   

• Going to the roots of the problem: increase people values and education. Education campaigns at Schools, show how bad and dangerous these acts (scare and harass women) are.
• More buses at night, maybe smaller (e.g., electric). On demand bus from places with night activity to the rest of the city. Night buses with stop on demand (in front of home) specially for vulnerable people (women, LGBTI, autistic...).
• Free taxi or taxi discounts for women at night.
• APP for calling service that connects people safely and can help them walk or use micro-mobility together.
• APP for service to bring safe women to their home at night.
• Lightning improvement in the streets and parks, more cameras, more surveillance, make it easier to report these kind of acts.
• More severe sentences and punishments for the offenders of this type of acts.
• More police and security in the streets and in the metro stations at nigth.

7.  Do you think that actions like this to create awareness in the Society should be done more frequently? 97% said Yes.

Action 5: Suggestion of installing a bicicling service in the campus. Additionally, we have proposed to the Bicing company the installation of a bicing stop inside the Campus. In any case, there are already four very close bicing stops (4 to 6 min walk) around the Campus, although a bicing stop on the Campus would further encourage UPC students to use them. Also, we have suggested UPC Sostenible that they also request the new bicing stop from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) itself.

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Public Realm activity in 4I4U: "Actions to raise awareness on urban mobility issues"

Participants: 90 participants of the Hackathon “Solving city problems regarding urban mobility”, around 3000 UPC students and around 100 anonymous citizens

Responsibles: Mónica Aguilar, Alexandra Hoesli

Assistants: Alberto Bazán, Adrian Catalin, Jose Manuel Ordoñez

Data: 1st November 2022 to 28th February 2022

Location: Plaça Telecos, Campus Nord, UPC

The project 4I4U aims to engage young citizens on the mobility of the future, empowering them to become actors for change who participate in the transformation of their cities. We want to encourage them to contribute to improving urban mobility to make cities more livable. We designed two actions carried out in various buildings and prominent spaces on the Campus Nord (UPC) where UPC students, employees, visitors and professors usually spend their time or pass by.

The first two activities consist on small-scale and temporary changes of the physical environment of the Plaça Telecos in the Campus Nord at the UPC. The low-cost intervention, though, pretend to be a first step to raise long-term awareness regarding urban mobility issues and encourage use of nearby sustainable transportation options around the Campus.

The two last activities consist on two online forms that helped us to achieve a twofold objective: on the one hand we give informative pills about main issues related to urban mobility; and on the other hand we collect the opinion of the participants about their mobility habits and their personal experience about the problems observed in urban mobility.

Action 1: 400 adhesives arranged along the Campus Nord (UPC)

Taking advantage of the celebration of our Hackathon “Solving city problems regarding urban mobility” on November 16th, and the coincidence with the UN Conference on climate change (COP27, from November 6th to 18th), and knowing that the UPC is very involved, we have completed this action in collaboration with UPC Sostenibilitat, and the UPC kindly allowed us to carry out this action at the UPC facilities.

This way, we count on the 90 participants of the Hackathon, and during 5 minutes they helped us to paste the adhesives following a map, so that each student should quickly paste 1 or 2 adhesives in a given location.

This is the result of the activity, it was a lot of fun, and many people who passed by asked us about the action and the project. In addition, it was also a kind of very useful icebreaker action at the beginning of the Hackathon.

We invite you to watch the group shout of the slogan 4I4U, as starting point of the Hackathon.

Additionally, we placed 200 stickers on the walls of about 30 toilets in buildings A1 to A6 that house the Campus Nord classrooms.

These adhesives include informative pills about urban mobility problems (focusing on pollution and derived serious problems) and we invite people to participate with the 4I4U project by filling in a Form to help improving urban mobility in Barcelona.

Action 2: Roll-Up "Project 4I4U-EIT Urban Mobility"

We prepared 3 roll-up to show them during the Hackathon. Afterwards, we placed them in three very representative places on the Campus Nord, where students pass through: the library, the cafeteria and the classroom corridor. The UPC kindly authorized us to have them there till the end of February 2023. In the roll-up we show all the logos of the participant entities in the 4I4U project and the QR code to invite people to fill in our anonymous form "Helping to improve Urban Mobility in Barcelona".

Action 3: Form "UPC Sustainable Mobility - 4I4U Project"

Additionally, we prepared two forms to gather information about mobility habits in Barcelona. The 1st form was sent to the UPC students of the Master in Urban Mobility of the Urban Mobility Master School-EIT Urban Mobility, and to the participanst of our Activity "UPC Sustainable Mobility". We have 23 answers, being 70% from 18 to 25 years old and 30% from 26 to 35 years old; 61% are male and 39% are female.

Most of them (around 80%) either use public transport (mainly metro and bus) or walk, and just a few (around 9%) use car, motorbike, e-scooter or e-bicycle. Quite of them (around 25%) use e-bicycle, tram or run.

Action 4: Form "Helping to improve Urban Mobility in Barcelona"

So far (10th Dec 2022), we have received 80 answers in the Form with very interesting comments, suggestions and reports about urban mobility issues and personal experience about urban mobility in Barcelona. We have disseminated the Form using several means: roll-up, adhesives in the walls of the Campus Nord, email and Tweeter. The age range of the participants is mostly 16-25 (53,2%), being 62,3% male and 37,7% female.

1. How could we decrease the number of vehicles in Barcelona?

• 41% chose "Car pool or ride sharing instead of driving alone".
• 87% chose "Improve public transport, for instance Rodalies in the Barcelona metropolitan area or the FGC train network".
• 54% chose "Consider teleworking or staggering your work hours to avoid jams, wasting gas and pollution during peak rush hours".
• 68% chose "Walk, ride a bike or use micromobility (e-scooter...) instead of your private car/motorbike".

Other interesting open suggestions where:

• Reducing the number of vehicles in the interior of Barcelona requires the creation of vehicle parking areas on the city limits, so that those who come from outside can park and access the interior by public transport.
• Make car itineraries more difficult, while improving public transport, bikes and PLEVs (Personal Light Electric Vehicles).
• Change traffic rules to enforce speed and acceleration limits and street design to shorten distances for walking and cycling. This will allow to change traffic signals to be low speed vehicles friendly and discourage the use of private vehicle based on exceeding speed/acceleration limits.
• More “Superilles” and other traffic limitations during certain days of the week.
• Improve infrastructure (safe and wide bike lanes). Incentives to use public transport, which should be efficient and fast, with a good frequency; governments must invest more in maintenance.
• Vehicle usage is determined by the maximum capacity of the roads. The only real way to limit it, is reducing road capacity.
• Discouraging car use by reducing lanes and restricting some areas only for resident. Urban toll is an option as well.
• Tax use of car inside the city for non essential vehicules (as London example).
• Make the electric chargers free of charge to estimulate these cars in front of gasoline cars.

2. How could we encourage people to use public transport more?

• 73% chose "Increasing the offer and frequency of public transport services".
• 49% chose "Make public transport more cost-effective".
• 14% chose "Increasing fuel prices to disincentivize driving".
• 36% chose "Discourage driving by closing streets to cars, and increasing parking prices".
• 37% chose "Provide discounted bike-share or car-share memberships".
• 67 % chose "Make transport cheaper for employees/students".
• 56% chose "Promote active transport (biking, walking, jogging...) with available infrastructure at the workplace/University (showers, lockers, bike rooms...)".

Other interesting open suggestions where:

• Make big parking lots in the outskirts of the city to leave the car and reach the downtown in public transportation.
• Make public transportation free. Improve public transportation infrastructure outside of main metropolitan areas. Enforce safe bike parking zones, get rid of cars in cities. Improve infrastructure for cyclists. Re-instruct pedestrians to learn how to live around bikes.
• Promote multimobility (e.g., e-scooter + metro).
• Increasing parking prices and fuel prices will not be efficient because it will allow people with more money to use car, but we need to be all sensitive to the issues of mobility, that is why increasing the offer of public transports and micro mobility is great.
• Free public transport for students, so that they do not use motorbikes. Also, companies should promote colective transport.
• Companies should publish an employee's mobility balance, pay employees for 0 emissions commuting, and be taxed by employees emissions.
• The whole neighboring cities (metropolitan area) should implement bike lanes to allow connectivity between them.
• Use collected data to check the increase of passengers during the current half discounts of tickets and set a new price when the offer is finished, based on n° tickets sold per price (between current and previous).

3. Did you know you are exposed to dangerous pollutants while moving around Barcelona? Check the box if you knew it. (PM=Particulate Matter). You can read more in aqicn.org and www.iqair.com.

• PM10 (diameter < 10 micron) float in the air and easily penetrate the human body.
  
• PM2.5 (diameter < 2.5 micron) penetrate our respiratory system and the smallest particles can enter our blood vessels, lungs and heart. 
• PM1 (diameter < 1 micron) can contribute to the development of deadly diseases such as heart attacks, lung cancer, and other serious diseases that lead to premature death.
  
• NO2 causes respiratory problems and respiratory infections after longer exposure.
• CO2 cause headache, nausea, dizziness and repeated long-term exposure can lead to heart disease.

The responses show that only about half of the participants were aware of the health effects of these dangerous pollutants:

• Only 54% knew that 20.8% of PM10 and PM2.5 comes from traffic.
• 64% knew that PM10 produce eye & throat irritation, coughing and asthma.
• 64% knew that PM2.5 produce aggravated asthma andchronic respiratory diseases.
• Only 44% knew that the concentration of PM2.5 in Barcelona (9 microgram/m3) is currently 1.8 times higher than the annual WHO air quality guideline value (5 microgram/m3).

4. Do you have any smart idea how the mobility and pollution issues in cities could be improved?

5.  Have you observed any difficulty in moving around Barcelona?

Dark zones in some areas while going on my PLEVs (Personal Light Electric Vehicles) e-Scooter

Some zones still lack good, safe and connected infrastructure for bikes while others are starting to overcrowd. Building/increasing capacity of bike lanes will improve sustainable mobility in the city.

Barcelona city like most cities was designed to allow high speed >30km/h vehicles. Now we should redesign streets and crossings for walking and low speed vehicles. To deal with traffic jams and traffic lights many vehicles use fast acceleration and braking, becoming much more pollution emissors and energy consumers than expected by authorities. This could be alleviated with public buses and taxis, with less private vehicle. These public transport should smooth rides and improve average speed in Barcelona.

No, currently I do not use public transportation in my daily trip, I found out that discovering the city while walking is more attractive and healthy for me.

I move using public transport and in this case the only problema is the low frequency. Also, the difficulty to find in Google maps alternatives to combine public transport and walk.

The metro doesn't work at night.

Depends on the time of the day. The main problem I would say is entering the city from outside, specially during peak hours.

Moving around Barcelona by car is a nightmare, but it is more comfortable than taking public transport.

Not really, Barcelona is fine. Moving outside Barcelona is worst (the outer part of Barcelona is bad connected)

I noticed the difficulty to park

I am very happy with my bike

It's difficult to move as a pedestrian. Traffic lights give priority to cars over walkers. Bikes and mainly scooters don't respect pedestrians. Too noisy to walk around.

Sí, moltes ... bicicletes i patinets no tenen el seu espai natural ni està regulada la seva circulació (o no es respecta) i envaeixen l'espai del vianant. Per no parlar de com estan dissenyats els carrils bici ... Les persones amb mobilitat reduïda, ho tenen francament malament. Estacionament puntual pel transport de mercaderies ... un drama, sempre estacionats damunt les voreres!

Bike lanes do not impede cars from entering them. It is common for cars to stop at bike lanes.

Yes, it is increasingly difficult and uncomfortable to move around Barcelona by any means (walking, car, motorcycles, ...)

L9 completition would solve many of my mobility issues withing the city

Toda la gestion de movilidad que se está haciendo de Barcelona está contribuyendo a un efecto contrario al buscado ya que se parte del criterio de pensar que la gente debe y puede dejar de utilizra el coche. BCNA es el centro neurálgico de la AMB donde cada dia la cantidad de desplazamientos para trabajar obliga a utilizar los coches ya que no hay accceso a muchos centros indstriales. Pot otra pacificar calles para trasladar el problema a la de al dado lo único que produce son mayores problemas de circulación. És fácil comprobar como calles en que es transito estaba controlado ahora es un caos debido al culo de botella de pasar de dos carriles a 1 solo. La ronda de BCNA se ha quedado pequeña.

Habitualmente mucha gentes estaba dejando los coches accediendo por la ronda a sectres en que ahí mismo habia metro para luego desplazarse en transporte púbica y desde el Ayuntamiento deciden que ya no se va a poder aparcar en esas zonas lo que motiva que ahora esten entrando en coche o haciéndoles pagar parkings ya que el que se desplaza de esta manera es porque no siempre se puede hacer des de cercanias. Es decir que se toman decisiones antes de pensar que el problema de BCNA no es que la gente de aquí sea idiota y se esté paseando con el coche sino que la mayoria viene de fuera en la gestión diaria de trabajo, solo hay que ver la evolucion de transito por las horas punta o como cambian en el domingo. Si no hay las infrastructuras de parkings en las afueras de la ciudad para que luego la gente se pueda desplazar hacia el interior mediante transporte público poca cosa se podra resolver. Yo utilizo siempre transporte publico por BCNA y mi coche solo tiene un uso de trabajo cuando debo salir fuera de BARNA, Pues cada vez que lo cojo , de manera necesaria no me quita nadie tenen luego más de 1 hora de transito para poder llegar a casa, entre obras y reducción de carriles, Es que hay que entender que la capitalidad de la ciudad motiva unas necesidades de movimiento que van ligadas a su propia envergadura económica de pais, Y aqui sin prever estos lo unico que importa es quitar carriles cuando no está resuelta la movilidad del exterior que deberia ser la principal.

Los radares

parked cars in the road to deliver gods, narrow sidewalks, lack of bicycling roads in some parts

Not at all. However, delay time by buses especially (night buses) is usually a pain.

Only when biking to certain areas.

Too many cars.

Of course, during peak hours public transport and main roads are saturated

Private motor vehicles are not just polluting the city, but are also a danger tue to high speeds and lack of respect for other types of mobility (walking, cycling)

I observed difficulties for moving directly among the cities rounding Barcelona, since often the only available possibility is to go to Barcelona, increasing the commutation time and the congestion in Barcelona itself.

Yes cars try to kill me and pedestrians keep trying to get killed because they trust their ear too much when jaywalking through bike lanes.

But it's great compared to other cities in Spain.

no (I don't have a car)

Yes I avoid taking buses sometimes because I know they are very busy at times. There are also little to no parking for bicycles which is why I dont have a bike here

The streets are full of cars, taxis and vans making constant small deliveries and blocking streets.

1) The Vans doing deliveries or loadings and unoloading need to be more controlled by the local police with fines when they are more than 2 minute blocking the street.

2)Taxis shall to be able to only stop in certain places. Reduce the amount of taxis allowed in the city should also be a priority, sometimes the streets are full of free taxis just increasing the jams.

3) Big buses of two sections empty are blocking streets when turning. I think the best would be to place double buses over periods of high demand, and individual ones when the demand is lower.

4) There are bike lanes in very fast streets such as Carrer Aragó which is an absolute disparate and a clear hazard for cars, motorbikes, bike riders or even pedestrians

Fear in some areas

Yes, especially at night it's easier and faster to take a taxi than to take the public transport. Also, the bici bikes are often not available because of charging (they have so much power, that the battery drains fast and they have to charge often).

Of course, always jamm traffic

With the amount of traffic in the mornings, it's very slow to get from one place to another in the city.

During rush hour in the morning, parents that send their kids to school with their private vehicle occupy the public transport lane increasing the travel time of the bus.

6.  Do you have proposals of a kind of service offered to get home safely at night? This is a worrying problem especially for women. More info: Women in Urban Mobility - EIT Urban Mobility and YourWayHome   

• Going to the roots of the problem: increase people values and education. Education campaigns at Schools, show how bad and dangerous these acts (scare and harass women) are.
• More buses at night, maybe smaller (e.g., electric). On demand bus from places with night activity to the rest of the city. Night buses with stop on demand (in front of home) specially for vulnerable people (women, LGBTI, autistic...).
• Free taxi or taxi discounts for women at night.
• APP for calling service that connects people safely and can help them walk or use micro-mobility together.
• APP for service to bring safe women to their home at night.
• Lightning improvement in the streets and parks, more cameras, more surveillance, make it easier to report these kind of acts.
• More severe sentences and punishments for the offenders of this type of acts.
• More police and security in the streets and in the metro stations at nigth.

7.  Do you think that actions like this to create awareness in the Society should be done more frequently? 97% said Yes.

Action 5: Suggestion of installing a bicicling service in the campus. Additionally, we have proposed to the Bicing company the installation of a bicing stop inside the Campus. In any case, there are already four very close bicing stops (4 to 6 min walk) around the Campus, although a bicing stop on the Campus would further encourage UPC students to use them. Also, we have suggested UPC Sostenible that they also request the new bicing stop from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) itself.