By Nicolas Bard

The city of Larissa today has about 220,000 inhabitants, making it one of the largest urban centers of our country, and is an important shopping center, and communications and transport hub. As is well known, the area is also famous for its agricultural production, as it is based on the Thessalian plain, and the city is crossed by the Pinios River. In the past few months, and after the initiative of
Municipality, the city begins to turn to bikes as a way of moving to the heart of the urban landscape.

Larissa is built circularly, with no high altitude differences or distances, and this favors both walking and bike. Residents of the city now have 150 electric bicycles of the municipality, which can use completely free of charge, through a special application on their mobile phones, for moving within the urban tissue. The sidewalk of the center, as well as the expansion of the city’s bicycle network, come to help with this turn of the Larissa. Thus, everyone can do their jobs or ride in the city center by their bikes easily, economically and … ecologically.

The purpose of this action is to reduce cars in the center of Larissa and consequently to reduce Ripi. Residents of the city and students seem to have embraced this effort, and it is noteworthy that none of the bicycles of the municipality have been destroyed so far, nor has it been stolen. Together they are struggling to change the city’s appearance, but also the everyday life there. If you are in the area, you can find these electric bicycles in eight central parts of the city, where the charging stations have been installed. The maximum battery duration of an electric bicycle is three hours, and then the user has to return it to its base.

Larissa follows the example of large European cities and wants to initiate its inhabitants into a more eco -friendly lifestyle, reducing traffic, gaseous races and downtown downtown. The first specimens of the pilot function of this program are positive, and everyone hopes to succeed, establish and expand, but at the same time be an example to other Greek cities.

What are you saying? Are we going a ride on the bike?