against excessive traffic pollution and the use of bicycles as an alternative to public transport, is returning with more and more spread out.
Moreover, the statistics indicate that in Europe more than 30% of trips made by car cover distances of less than 3 km, (Source: Eurobarometer - European Commission for the Environment) of all tackled so by bicycle.
The bike can actually be a good response and contribute materially to improving the quality of life, especially those living in the city. The advantages are many: economic (reducing costs for travel, reducing waste of time due to traffic jams), politicians (reducing energy dependence, saving non-renewable resources), environmental (reduced greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants).
In this we add the important health benefits for people who cycle.
In cities such as Parma in Italy bicycle use is shared by more than 20% of its inhabitants and Ferrara (nicknamed this "city bike") well over 30%. A
Florence, on the basis of a survey conducted by the Associations City Cycle Firenzeinbici and in 2008 there were about 30,000 bicycles each day were used, corresponding to about 28% of the vehicles that moved within the LTZ, with an increase of no less than 88% compared to similar data in 2000.
And it is precisely in 2000 that begins with the beautiful design of Cooperativa Sociale " Ulysses." Until then, the City had the problem of having to dispose of the hundreds of bicycles removed (because it resulted in a state of abandonment) from the streets of the city and piled up at the Municipal Depositeria. The Cooperative
Ulysses as part of a broader project related to the promotion and development of the use of bicycles, both in terms of alternative mobility, both in leisure and tourism, in 2001 he received the assignment from the City of Florence bicycles Hall of Depositeria ( thus prevent their destruction final), which are repaired in a special workshop at the Institute of Criminal Sollicciano created in order to train the inmates to a professional activity to be carried out later from prison. A 'further factory was opened also at the juvenile prison in Florence A. Meucci always.
Since 2008, in support of workshops active in Penal Institutions, the Coop. Ulysses has opened a new laboratory in Florence Via Giano della Bella, 22 in order to offer you support the activity of the workshop and especially Sollicciano be a point of sale which allow the public direct purchase of used bike repaired and restored.
The activity of this workshop is external to the cooperative an opportunity for some of the inmates who work in alternative measures to prison, they can find stable employment and a place for those who have no employment opportunities as persons belonging to weak. In fact, the repair and sale of bicycles by inmates of the prison and the Institute of Juvenile Sollicciano allows them to obtain a decent salary.
The staff workshop, supported by specialist staff, also aims to train disadvantaged young people in employment in general and specifically to the repair of bicycles for sale later. The proceeds from the project's aims are the exclusive promotion of these activities.
addition, the workshop via G. Bella also plays the role of point of care and repair the bikes for another project of the Cooperative Ulysses in this area or the project Mille and a bike "in collaboration with Firenze SpA Parking now running for a dozen years and allows the hiring of about 200 bicycles the territory of the Municipality of Florence .
As with any initiative effective and functional, even for the very Ricicletteria of Florence has helped the word of mouth among citizens. By now many people are familiar with this initiative and if they need to buy a bike is to look into Via Giano della Bella. The prices of these bicycles "restored", as times are very competitive with the market for new bikes. Usually it starts from € 40-45 for a bicycle up a man or woman. But he recovered, and then you can buy here, even children's bikes.
"The request, on the existence - explains the responsible for the cooperative sector of the bike, Marco Biagini - a is in some times of the year so high that sometimes need to book your bike to make sure the purchase that day or wait a few new bikes come from Sollicciano restored. "
The Cooperative is made available to be picked up at the home old bikes to fix, make repairs from recycled materials small sales to public and / or private hire for short / medium / long term.
Moreover, the statistics indicate that in Europe more than 30% of trips made by car cover distances of less than 3 km, (Source: Eurobarometer - European Commission for the Environment) of all tackled so by bicycle.
The bike can actually be a good response and contribute materially to improving the quality of life, especially those living in the city. The advantages are many: economic (reducing costs for travel, reducing waste of time due to traffic jams), politicians (reducing energy dependence, saving non-renewable resources), environmental (reduced greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants).
In this we add the important health benefits for people who cycle.
In cities such as Parma in Italy bicycle use is shared by more than 20% of its inhabitants and Ferrara (nicknamed this "city bike") well over 30%. A
Florence, on the basis of a survey conducted by the Associations City Cycle Firenzeinbici and in 2008 there were about 30,000 bicycles each day were used, corresponding to about 28% of the vehicles that moved within the LTZ, with an increase of no less than 88% compared to similar data in 2000.
And it is precisely in 2000 that begins with the beautiful design of Cooperativa Sociale " Ulysses." Until then, the City had the problem of having to dispose of the hundreds of bicycles removed (because it resulted in a state of abandonment) from the streets of the city and piled up at the Municipal Depositeria. The Cooperative
Ulysses as part of a broader project related to the promotion and development of the use of bicycles, both in terms of alternative mobility, both in leisure and tourism, in 2001 he received the assignment from the City of Florence bicycles Hall of Depositeria ( thus prevent their destruction final), which are repaired in a special workshop at the Institute of Criminal Sollicciano created in order to train the inmates to a professional activity to be carried out later from prison. A 'further factory was opened also at the juvenile prison in Florence A. Meucci always.
Since 2008, in support of workshops active in Penal Institutions, the Coop. Ulysses has opened a new laboratory in Florence Via Giano della Bella, 22 in order to offer you support the activity of the workshop and especially Sollicciano be a point of sale which allow the public direct purchase of used bike repaired and restored.
The activity of this workshop is external to the cooperative an opportunity for some of the inmates who work in alternative measures to prison, they can find stable employment and a place for those who have no employment opportunities as persons belonging to weak. In fact, the repair and sale of bicycles by inmates of the prison and the Institute of Juvenile Sollicciano allows them to obtain a decent salary.
The staff workshop, supported by specialist staff, also aims to train disadvantaged young people in employment in general and specifically to the repair of bicycles for sale later. The proceeds from the project's aims are the exclusive promotion of these activities.
addition, the workshop via G. Bella also plays the role of point of care and repair the bikes for another project of the Cooperative Ulysses in this area or the project Mille and a bike "in collaboration with Firenze SpA Parking now running for a dozen years and allows the hiring of about 200 bicycles the territory of the Municipality of Florence .
As with any initiative effective and functional, even for the very Ricicletteria of Florence has helped the word of mouth among citizens. By now many people are familiar with this initiative and if they need to buy a bike is to look into Via Giano della Bella. The prices of these bicycles "restored", as times are very competitive with the market for new bikes. Usually it starts from € 40-45 for a bicycle up a man or woman. But he recovered, and then you can buy here, even children's bikes.
"The request, on the existence - explains the responsible for the cooperative sector of the bike, Marco Biagini - a is in some times of the year so high that sometimes need to book your bike to make sure the purchase that day or wait a few new bikes come from Sollicciano restored. "
The Cooperative is made available to be picked up at the home old bikes to fix, make repairs from recycled materials small sales to public and / or private hire for short / medium / long term.
short, a really good example that combines a commitment to the environment with that in the social field.
Those of you interested can find more information on the site of the Cooperative at the following address: http://www.cooperativaulisse.it/
Councillor for Mobility for the City of Florence, Massimo Mattei, said last September that the bikes in the last four years removed from the streets of the city and then donated to the Cooperative Ulysses were well and that the 4863 'administration intends to continue to encourage this through initiatives such as the use of alternative mobility to combat the problems of traffic. In support of this commitment, last November the City Council of Florence has unanimously approved a motion that promotes the use of bicycles as a supplement to public transport.
now seem very distant times when on July 13 1944, because of the ambushes perpetrated by the partisans against the police, the military commander of Florence, Col. Golden, in the interest of public safety, with a special ordinance forbidding the city of Florence to the entire population using Bike announcing that "offenders will be punished to the end of martial law Germanic."
But as they say in these cases, this, fortunately, is another story ...
Michele Salvadori
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