Key word: Promotion sustainable urban mobility
Main characteristics:
- Population about 60000
- Strategic location in North Central region of Bulgaria,
- Highly industrialized area with a very proactive local government, working on sustainable urban mobility, sustainable climate and energy transition with final goal to achieve carbon neutrality till 2030.
Challenges to tackle:
- Long shaped city, quite long distances to the city center
- Limited population
- Lack of traffic management and traffic control in the city
- Lack of well developed cycling infrastructure
- Risk areas around the schools
Main goals of the LL:
- Improve safety conditions in the roads
- Cut down emissions from road transport
- Reduce traffic by improvement of traffic management and control
- Increase public transport usage and active mobility