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PRESS RELEASE
8 MAY 2008

FEMA President opens the World’s First Vision Zero Motorcycle Road

A milestone for motorcycle safety, said FEMA President Hans Petter Strifeldt as he officially opened the World’s First Vision Zero Road for motorcycles along RV 32 in Telemark County in Norway 7 May 2008.

The motorcycle community has for a long time expressed serious concerns regarding the Vision Zero, the strategy in which road authorities have envisioned how to achieve zero deaths and zero serious injuries on the roads. The concerns are due to the vision depending primarily on bans and regulations instead of adaptation of the road environment to suit all road users - motorcyclists included.

But even if motorcycles have been viewed upon as high-risk road vehicles with regard to accidents, they have been all but excluded from the Vision Zero document. The Vision Zero document has first and foremost given anti-motorcycle campaigners an opening to propose a ban on motorcycles as these, they claim, are not compatible with a Vision Zero. But today, with the opening of this motorcycle friendly road, these claims have been effectively quashed, the FEMA President stated.

The Vision Zero Motorcycle Road is the brainchild of two passionate engineers at the regional Road Authorities, Jan Petter Lyng and Bjørn R. Kirste, who have successfully designed the road exactly as the motorcyclists themselves recommend. It is not much that is needed to make a motorcycle friendly road with regard to preventing injuries in case of accidents: Crash barriers fitted with a sub-rail, forgiving side terrain, well thought out placing of signposts, cutting down sight-hindering vegetation - all in all small modifications and investments that are beneficial for all road users, including bicycles and cars. The price tag for modifying these 15 kilometres of road is estimated to 630 000 euros.

The importance of this stretch of road in the middle of Norway cannot be overrated. It is the first Vision Zero Motorcycle road, not only in Norway, not only in Europe, but in the world. As the representative for Europe’s road riding motorcyclists, FEMA will do what it can to promote this road to other nation’s road authorities as an example of what is possible to achieve with relatively small means, FEMA President Hans Petter Strifeldt concluded.

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Note:
1. For further comments, please contact Hans Petter Strifeldt, FEMA President. Phone: +47 994 80650
2. For additional pictures, please contact Virginie Peters, FEMA Campaigns Officer. Phone: + 32 2 7369047 Email: virginie.fema@chello.be <virginie.fema@chello.be>

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FEMA - Federation of European Motorcyclists' Associations
Rue des Champs 62, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 736 9047 / Fax: +32 (0)2 736 9401
http://www.fema.ridersrights.org

Interessantissimo, un buon esempio di eccellenza!
Visto il costo dell'iniziativa (42.000 Euro/km!!!) non so quanto attuabile possa essere in Italia. Grazie per la segnalazione, non possiamo fare in modo da renderla il più visibile possibile (riviste, moto club, web community?).
Gli esempi eccellenti possono sempre ispirare qualcuno....

Già segnalato al Coordinamento Motociclisti

Giunto anche a me.
Mi piacerebbe capire quali sono le caratteristiche tecniche del tratto in questione.

mi pare di aver capito che non sia un tratto di strada, ma una specie di protocollo adottato dalle autorita' svedesi. ma forse ho capito male (non ho trovato alcun riferimento ad un tratto si strada, anche sul sito fema)

cercando su google per "Vision Zero Motorcycle Road" ci sono anche pagine in cui pare il protocollo viene contestato ("unrealistic goal" "There is no room for motorcycles in Vision Zero")

da approfondire.

Sul testo riportato da Muttley c'è la frase "he officially opened the World’s First Vision Zero Road for motorcycles along RV 32 in Telemark County in Norway 7 May 2008", da cui sembra che ci sia in effetti un tratto già realizzato.

QUi si parla di Vision Zero for motorcycles, mentre la strategia contestata appunto dei motociclisti è la Vision Zero originaria, che è una politica che ha per obiettivo l'azzeramento delle morti su strada, adottata come obiettivo dalla Svezia e da altre nazioni.

in effetti, ho letto in fretta.
denghiu' per la precisazione.