Bruno Armand
Bi-cultural French/North American professional passionated by how mobility, urbanism and social interactions create "lively streets" and sustainable cities. Bruno is interested in "re-thinking" urbanism through local alternative mobility projects involving elected officials, citizens, associations, schools and local businesses to reappropriate urban space for citizens/city life/healthy streets, (re)create social bonds & improve local retail businesses.
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Bike minute map allows greater appropriation of a given environment by local cyclists and would be cyclists, whether we're talking urban, suburban or even rural areas.
This could enables proper modal shift towards new kind of active mobility for citizens and encourage institutions to build appropriate wayfinding instead of costly and (sometimes) delayed cycling infrastructure...
How do you create a lively bike culture amongst different citizens in a given metropolitan area?
How do you promote the fact of taking your bike instead of taking your car, in a "fun" way?
How do you make sure everyone embarks in creating their own, shared mobility tool?
By creating new format events mixing mobility, but also arts/culture, health and education at the same time! Welcome to the world where your car isn't needed to run errands anymore (grocery shooping, going to sport, dropping package for a moving out, ...). Through the example of two cities (Montreal, CAN and Lyon, FRA), we will see how community groups, cities, associations and volunteers can work together to create such enabling culture for the masses!