The Bucharest-Ilfov Intercommunity Development Association for Public Transport (TPBI) has been nominated as a finalist for the European Mobility Week Awards 2024 offered by the European Commission in its awareness campaign on sustainable urban mobility.
According to TPBI, six finalists are in the running for the European Mobility Week and Mobility Action awards, three finalists for each award. Both awards are a recognition of the activities carried out in 2024.
Bucharest is a Mobility Action 2024 Award finalist for transforming Gheorghe Duca Boulevard into a temporary exhibition area. On the boulevard located next to the North Railway Station, TPBI together with the Bucharest City Hall and the Bucharest Transport Company STB SA, turned an ordinary artery of the city into an interactive cultural space, combining historical and modern mobility themes.
The initiative is considered by the representatives of the European Commission to be a key component of the European Mobility Week in Bucharest. By exhibiting vintage vehicles, the event highlighted developments in public transit and mobility in the city. New public transport routes were introduced to connect the city's main transport hubs with major landmarks and to secure better access to the exhibition. These are line 700 (King Mihai I Park - North Station), operated on the new ZTE Granton electric buses, and also the special tram lines 58 (North Railway Station - Obor Station) and 59 (North Railway Station - Victoria Depot), on which the "old" Tatra T4R trams circulated, or trolleybus line 75 (North Railway Station - Vatra Luminoasă Depot), operated with the long-lived Ikarus 415T trolleybuses.
In Brussels, the capital of Romania is fighting for the prize with two other finalists - the Amics de Ca la Cileta Association (Spain) and Pesky mestem (Czech Republic), both of which carried out their own projects, also appreciated by the representatives of the European Mobility Week.
The winners will be announced at an award ceremony hosted by the European Commission in Brussels on March 27.
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