In collaboration with the European Union, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality will introduce the Izmir Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan to the press on September 22nd. To be completed in 2 years, the plan will make the city safer, cleaner and more accessible, and allow Izmir Metropolitan Municipality to more easily acquire international loans and improve its institutional capacity. On the same day, Car-Free Day will also be celebrated.<\/p>\n
Continuing its efforts to make the city sustainable, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality will introduce the EU Support to Izmir Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (EU Support to Izmir Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan-SUMP Izmir), which is carried out with the European Union (EU) on the last day of the European Mobility Week (September 16-22). The meeting, which will also be attended by the Head of the EU Delegation to Turkey Ambassador Meyer-Landrut, will be hosted by Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Tun\u00e7 Soyer.
\nFunded by the Republic of Turkey and the EU, the SUMP Izmir support project aims to contribute to the livability and sustainability of the city through safer, cleaner, accessible and affordable mobility.<\/p>\n
To be created with a common sense<\/strong> The contract for the EU Support to Izmir Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan Project was signed on June 21, 2022 between an international consortium of companies from the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Turkey and the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, General Directorate of EU and Foreign Affairs, Department of EU Investments.<\/p>\n BISIMs are free of charge on Car Free Day<\/strong> European Mobility Week kicks off tomorrow<\/strong> Friday, September 16th Sel\u00e7uk – Bike to School<\/strong> Saturday, September 17 Izmir city center bike tour<\/strong> September 19-20-21 “Bike to Work”<\/strong> Thursday, September 22 is Car-Free Day<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In collaboration with the European Union, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality will introduce the Izmir Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan to the press on September 22nd. To be completed in 2 years, the plan will make the city safer, cleaner and more accessible, and allow Izmir Metropolitan Municipality to more easily acquire international loans and improve its institutional capacity. On the same day, Car-Free Day will also be celebrated. Continuing its efforts to[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sump-izmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sumpizmir.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sumpizmir.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sumpizmir.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sumpizmir.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sumpizmir.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sumpizmir.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/www.sumpizmir.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sumpizmir.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sumpizmir.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sumpizmir.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sumpizmir.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFrom scoping and collecting people-oriented mobility data to strategy development, action plans and capacity building, SUMP Izmir will be completed in 2 years. The plan will serve as a strategic document and will enable the organization to more easily find international loans and improve its institutional capacity. The plan, which focuses on common sense, will be developed with 200 stakeholders from civil society organizations to professional chambers.<\/p>\n
\nOn the last day of European Mobility Week, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality will celebrate Car-Free Day after the launch of SUMP. Gaziosmanpa\u015fa Boulevard, which will be closed to traffic during the ninth Car-Free City Day in Izmir, will be the address of day-long activities from children’s yoga to zumba, from the slowest bicycle tournament to the wooden bicycle tournament. B\u0130S\u0130M bicycles will provide free service on Car-Free Day.<\/p>\n
\nIzmir Metropolitan Municipality will organize awareness-raising events during the European Mobility Week. Below is the agenda of events for the week starting tomorrow:<\/p>\n
\nSel\u00e7uk Cumhuriyet Primary School students will bike to school at 12:00 under the supervision of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality staff.<\/p>\n
\nBike enthusiasts will meet in front of Konak Clock Tower at 18:00 and ride 7.5 kilometers to \u0130nciralt\u0131 City Forest.<\/p>\n
\nIzmir Metropolitan Municipality staff will bike to and from work for three days to spread awareness across the city.<\/p>\n
\nActivities will be held on Gaziosmanpa\u015fa Boulevard throughout the day beginning at 10.00 am.<\/p>\n