Cycling routes connecting sports areas in Cesena

Cesena Sport City: network of cycling routes connecting sports areas in Cesena

Following the victory in the design competition organized by the Municipality of Cesena in 2021, TRTIngegneria is developing a project for cycling connections as part of a broader activity to prepare the final and executive project, as well as safety coordination, aimed at the redevelopment of five sports areas. The project is named «Cesena Sport City».

TRTIngegneria is working in partnership with Degli Esposti Architetti Srl (lead partner), CEAS Srl, various professional architects, engineers, and geologists (Elisa Cristiana Cattaneo, Angelo Bolzoni, Umberto Guerra, and Marcello Brugola), and benefits from the technical consultancy of GVG Engineering Srl.

Specifically, TRTIngegneria’s activities involve defining and subsequently designing some cycling routes connecting the city center and the new sports hubs covered by the project. In the development of these activities, a methodology is adopted to emphasize and achieve:

• the construction of a cycling infrastructure based on the concept of a «city for diachronic sections», which means a timeline that can be traversed with slow mobility for daily commuting;
• strengthening the «Bicipolitana» and the «VeloCe» projects (as planned in the Cesena SUMP);
• weaving together internal molecular structures, redeveloping and enhancing existing routes, and implementing small actions through the construction of new sections that integrate existing elements;
• connecting with bike sharing and bike stop points in the project areas, creating small exchange hubs between motorists and cyclists.

The use of roads as public spaces and the desire to establish a direct relationship between the city and the surrounding areas lead to proposing actions that aim to question and overturn the current car-pedestrian and car-cyclist hierarchy, reallocating space from parked cars to improve the usability of public spaces.