🎬 Beyond Bike Lane Kilometres: Testing Barcelona's Cycling Network

This week, at Velo-city in Rimini, cities from around the world are presenting new cycling plans, maps and kilometres of infrastructure. But kilometres tell us very little about how a cycling network actually works. Over the past two years, I have been investigating that question in Barcelona through interviews with planners and policymakers, crash data analysis, network mapping, and extensive fieldwork by bike. In this short film, I follow a route deliberately chosen because it passes through four very different parts of the network: the waterfront, major roundabouts, a large urban corridor, and the underlying neighbourhood streets. A practical test of a simple question: How do you design a cycling network that works as a network? Curious what you think of the film Based on two years of field research into urban cycling networks. #CyclingInfrastructure #UrbanMobility #CyclingCities #TransportPlanning #VeloCity2026