Rethymno – winner of the EU Urban Road Safety Award
The Municipality of Rethymno is always looking at ways to encourage public transportation and manage the efficiency of parking to prepare for the high-traffic tourist season.
The Municipality of Rethymno is always looking at ways to encourage public transportation and manage the efficiency of parking to prepare for the high-traffic tourist season.
Mr. Giorgis Marinakis, mayor of Rethymnon, stated “What we are doing now is no longer just a vision, it is the reality of the European Union foresight. Many large cities abroad have completely abolished private parking. Cities are taking a different approach by increasing and encouraging behavioral change for road safety, changing safety messages to both locals and the hundreds of thousands of visitors who use the roads each year”.
The objective is to inform and engage Rethymno communities in the decision-making process. Communication is essential to gathering new ideas and opinions from locals, professionals, and visitors for enhancing public road safety and improving parking and traffic flow changes in the behavior of drivers, bikers, and pedestrians.
Compliance monitoring, the long-term solution is best addressed by encouraging behavioral change through an educational type campaign complemented with school activities for youth. Promote the message that all users have equal rights to access our roads in or out of the city. Structural infrastructure is trying to reduce transportation accessibility gaps by exploring basic mobility with zero-emission modes of transportation such as e-cars, e-bus, e-bikes, and infrastructure for charging as well as continue to support public transportation while creating safer driving conditions and reducing emissions
