Name: 在大流行中骑自行车穿越欧洲（Cycling across Europe in the pandemic - BBC World Service）
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From the bubonic plague to tuberculosis, pandemics have historically changed the way our cities

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are designed. And the coronavirus has been no different.

Coronavirus is a moment in which every policy maker can make a u-turn.

Lockdown made our capitals quieter, greener, and we've seen wildlife blossoming like

It's like a paradise for me now. You can see maybe 10 thousand of bicycles everywhere.

We're travelling around Europe meeting the people who are trying to implement the biggest

Three months ago you had a lot of cars in this path. Now it's for bicycles.

But this rapid shift towards pedal power has created a problem

I just went there and it was just empty. There were no bikes.

Could the pandemic see a shift to more environmentally friendly modes of transport?

Or will we simply return to the way we were?

Dutch bike lanes are the envy of the world.

It's so much part of us - it's as if we are all born with a bike - like you take a

Maartje van Putten was a Dutch politician.

Netherlands traffic is in Europe the most dangerous for children

Maartje was a key player in the movement that transformed Dutch cities in the 1960s and

The start was there in the 70s when people got alarmed about the figures of children

on their way to school - the accidents / the numbers were so high. We had to do something.

Here the action group. This is us. We want car free Sunday at least once a month

In 1973 Maartje launched a campaign called 'stop the child murder'.

We sat together and we said, this can't go on, we have to do something…So more and

more actions were taken. We were blocking roads, in the rush hour, people on their way

home. Drivers totally overtaken and surprised about the mothers big circles on the corner

Maartje's efforts have been immortalized, as the heroine of a new children's book.

Here we went through the tunnel under the water… and on the other side the police

The demand of space by car traffic was so enormous that it was eating up the space for

cyclists and also pedestrians… the whole infrastructure of the Netherlands was totally

focused on, let's say, the priority of cars.

Today Amsterdam has 767km of cycle lanes. And more bikes than people. But even here,

the pandemic is changing the way people get about.

Because of COVID-19 it didn't feel right to go by tram anymore and so it was actually

the right time now to get a bakfiets cargo bike.

Judith and Johan Hartog bought an electric cargo bike right at the start of lockdown.

We're not really going on a vacation now; so it's like a staycation; we stay here

in Holland and we do a lot by bike now. So you can put a lot of things in; you can get

the bags and go out - like here in the park, and we're going to the beach by bike. So

Could you have imagined being this Dutch mum 6 months ago?

No no no. No we never would have thought. So it's fun, it's different. It's also

The pandemic has been the catalyst for many people here to invest savings they wouldn't

It's not only mobility anymore… they're singing in the bike, having fun, you're

in nature. It's a whole different way of going out.

The Netherlands already had world-renowned infrastructure. But the coronavirus has still

significantly shifted behaviour. Cargo bike sales have gone up by 53% this year and the

e-bike is now the most commonly sold type of bicycle.

Brussels, the capital of Belgium. Since March it has built 40 km of new cycle paths.

I had been here for two weeks and then all of a sudden the whole world changed. So of

course I decided I wanted to take all the measures I can to stay healthy.

When Brussels went into lockdown Vesselina Foteva decided cycling was the fastest, safest

way to travel and went out to buy a bike.

I just entered the bike shop…and I had this image of myself buying a beautiful new bike

with the matching helmet… but I just went there and it was empty. there were no bikes.

I wanted to order one but they said that i needed to wait at least two months to get

the bike so I said ok no way I cannot wait two months as the whole summer will be gone.

A friend of mine, really by accident, told me about, she heard about this subscription

based service where you can pay a monthly fee and get the bike at your home. So I thought

Commuters make up the majority of those who've subscribed to this particular scheme - Swapfiets.

The Dutch company is expanding into three new cities to capitalise on a spike in demand

When it was official we were living in a global pandemic I decided that I will avoid as much

as possible public transport, so this is probably the main reason to decide to have a bike.

But it's not just commuters who are switching to two-wheels. Cycling traffic surged in Brussels

during the first week of the return to school, with a 75% increase compared to last year.

Milan was one of the first cities to embrace cycling as a way to get its residents moving

This is one of Italy's most polluted cities, it's also in the heart of the region which

was the epicentre of the outbreak in Europe.

I told you that I lived through the war, this seems worse to me than the war.

When there were so many deaths, I was scared because it was old people who were dying.

90% of them were the elderly. They were old. So I was a bit scared.

Peppino Drali is one of Italy's most famous bike manufacturers. Now at 92 Peppino has

been building bikes for more than 80 years.

I come to the workshop, with my dog, Alessandro picks me up in his car, because here I'm

And the crisis has meant an unparalleled pressure on Peppino and his apprentice Alessandro

As the demand for their handmade bikes has soared.

On the 5th may we reopened, people were standing on the streets with their bikes in their hands

and the line was right around the corner - it didn't end.

It has been complicated to keep manufacturing; coronavirus has meant a lot of parts we couldn't

But Peppino isn't convinced the boost to their sales is reflected in the number of

In the past there were 200 bikes and one car. Now there are 200 cars and just 1 bike. It's the opposite.

Are you hopeful that in the future it will again be 100 bikes and one car in Milan, like

Maybe it's because I'm old that I say no. Maybe it's because I'm old, I'm

sorry. I say no. Because nowadays the world has changed. Someone goes to get a newspaper,

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