Bicycle Lanes in Sofia look smaller as the number of bikers triples

Here is the final standing in the special categories:

Most industrious male biker, city of Burgas, Krasimir Petkov 1811.92 km
Second most industrious male biker, city of Sofia, Mihail Tsekov 1496.08 km
Third most industrious male biker, city of Varna, Dimitar Manolov 1408.73 km
Most industrious female biker, city of Sofia, Elena Dimitrova 1733.00 km
Second most industrious female biker, city of Sofia, Ilka Antonova 1431.24 km
Third most industrious female biker, city of Sofia, Gergana Nikolcheva 943.27 km
Most active male participant (days), city of Sofia, Valentin Dimitrov 854.20/30 days
Most active female participant (days), city of Burgas, Irina Bahilina 799.00/29 days
Most enthusiastic male participant (most days and least km), town of Popovo, Nikola Tsanev 88/17 days
Most enthusiastic female participant (most days and least km), city of Sofia, Denitsa Todorova 117.00/17 days
Most strictly recording (systematically each day), city of Plovdiv, Dido Marinov 600.00/29 days

Velo village – Ist villager with a bike, village of Krivina, Petar Hristov 394 km
VeloCity 1 – (Ist place participant), Sofia, Elena Dimitrova 1733.00 km
VeloCity 2 – (Ist place participant), Burgas, Krasimir Petrov 1811.92 km
VeloCity 3 – (Ist place participant), Varna Dimitar Manolov 1408.73 km


State administration team, Sofia NAP 2015 838 km
Ist team Burgas Biking – Burgas 3682.99 km
IInd team Sofia Proxiad 1778.38 km
IIIrd team Sofia Euro Games Technology 1773.90 km
Burgas participants’ success will be marked with a bike tour in Burgas on June 6, Saturday, from 10:00 A.M. The bikers will start to gather at 9:45 A.M. in front of Burgas Municipality. The start is at 10 o’clock from the Municipality along the route Burgas Municipality – Hristo Botev Boulevard – Trapezitsa – Struga Boulevard – Stefan Stambolov Boulevard to the circle by Mirage hotel – Stefan Stambolov Boulevard – Democracy Boulevard – Adam Mitskevitsh Street – final in front of the Pantheon. The organizers from the biker enthusiasts club in Burgas will present the awards from the campaign Riding a Bike to Work to Burgas winners.

In the meantime, the first stage of the counting of the bike traffic in the capital has ended. According to preliminary data from 21 junctures inside the wide city center, the increase of bikers from 2012 is two to three times. The traffic through the busy junctures reaches 500 bikers during a holiday and 570 bikers in working days. The traffic in peak hours is generated by the existing bike lanes. In the other counting cites without biker lanes, the bikers have doubled and have become a considerable chunk in the city traffic. This means not only that biking infrastructure has become insufficient and its construction late. The promised 60 kilometers of bicycle lanes for this year will prove narrow. There is an urgent need for making safe key junctures in the city. New safe bike parking spots are needed as well.

Motivated by these results, Veloevolution decided to challenge the biking community of the capital with the screening of the Czech activist movie Auto*Mat in the last May evening. Hoping for more inspiration in the joint work with Sofia Municipality, Veloevolution summons people to expect next seasonal counting and the forthcoming weekly bike trainings for safe bike riding in the city.