Last Monday, June 15, Bicycle Day, the Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, accompanied by the delegate for Urbanism, Environment, and Mobility, Borja Carabante, received about thirty representatives of foreign embassies in Spain, including several ambassadors, who took part in a cycling march to the Temple of Debod.
The cycling march, which aims to promote active mobility through the Diplomatic Corps accredited in Spain, has been directly promoted by the Embassy of Poland, with the goal of advocating for the health and environmental benefits of this urban mode of transport. The initiative originally started in 2023 through the joint efforts of the delegations of Finland and Poland and has had the operational assistance of municipal staff and the technical team of the Municipal Transport Company (EMT Madrid), establishing itself as a fixed event in the Madrid mobility calendar.
On this occasion, the ambassadors of Czech Republic, Sweden, Lithuania, Cyprus, Iceland, Slovakia and Slovenia, among others, gathered.
The City Council has made available to the international delegation the renewed fleet of the public service Bicimad for this celebration. The infrastructure of the rental system currently has 635 base stations and nearly 8,000 operational pedal-assisted bicycles across the 21 districts of the city. The system recorded its historical demand record during the days of civic mobilization motivated by the official visit of Pope Leo XIV to Madrid, a circumstance that generated traffic circulation restrictions and led the platform to account for a maximum of 80,272 individual trips in a single day, demonstrating Bicimad’s responsiveness to exceptional demand spikes.