| Project Id |
3709 |
| Project Name |
Dynamo - la Velostazione di Bologna, Italy |
| Description |
The group Salvaiciclisti-Bologna needed a place for secure bike parking, as well as a community hub to promote sustainable urban mobility. They won in 2015 a public call promoted by the Municipality of Bologna named Incredibol! to develop their project and they received an historic abandoned space underneath the Pincio staircase leading up to Bologna’s Montagnola park and near the city’s central train station. The group cleaned and rehabilitated the building to create a bike park and community space. Today, la Velostazione functions as a self-sustaining cooperative, with 12 members and several employees. Among other things, it serves as a hub for a vegetable co-op and courier service, an event space,a bar and it houses one outpost of LEILA, an objects library. |
| Description of the economic, social and environmental impacts of the project |
La Velostazione di Bologna is located near the central train station, and commuters from the suburbs park their bikes there for a fee and take the train home. Dynamo also rents bikes to students and tourists and provides bicycle tours of the city. More than 56,000 bikes have been parked in the space since it was founded, and Dynamo has rented another 9,000 bikes and repaired 15,000. In 2018 alone, the space generated €350,000. With little financial investment from the city, the previously unused space is now a successful small business and a center for biking and community in the heart of Bologna. |
| Web links |
https://dynamo.bo.it/ |
| Country |
Italy |
| City size |
Intermediate cities (between 50.000-1 million people) |
