Press release | 02.05.2025
World's largest cycling campaign: City Cycling 2025 kicks-off in Frankfurt, Germany
Participatory campaign invites people to hop on their bicycles for sustainable mobility and the climate
Frankfurt am Main, 2 May 2025. Yesterday, Climate Alliance's international City Cycling campaign kicked-off in Frankfurt Germany's historical Opera Square. Frankfurt's Head of Department for Climate, Environment and Women's Issues, Tina Zapf-Rodríguez, and Wolfgang Siefert, Frankfurt's Head of Department for Mobility, rang in this year's campaign, inviting local politicians and citizens to collect climate-friendly cycling kilometres over a 21-day period through the end of September and thus promote cycling.
"Frankfurt am Main is proving every day that the mobility transition in our city is gaining speed. The bicycle is the ideal means of transport within the city, because for classic everyday journeys of less than five kilometres, everyone gets to their destination faster and more flexibly," explained Tina Zapf-Rodríguez, delighted that the starting signal for the world's largest cycling campaign was given in Frankfurt. As cycling improves individual fitness and health, it is also becoming increasingly popular in Frankfurt. The number of City Cycling campaign participants proves this. "And as Head of Climate and Environment, I also see another social benefit: cycling reduces noise, exhaust fumes and traffic jams in the city."
Constantly growing urban centres in particular face the challenge of continuing to provide efficient infrastructure that gets people to their destinations reliably, safely and quickly. Frankfurt's Head of Mobility, Wolfgang Siefert, sees the bicycle as an important building block and the City Cycling campaign as an opportunity to encourage people to use this mode of transport: "We all know that cycling is healthy, environmentally friendly and fun. Nevertheless, clever solutions are always needed to make cycling an even more attractive means of transport in everyday life. The City of Frankfurt has been working on this for years with the implementation of the city's 2019 cycling resolution. Against this backdrop, the participatory City Cycling campaign is a really good way to get people excited about cycling and using our constantly improving infrastructure year after year."
For André Muno, Managing Director of Climate Alliance Services, infrastructure is also a key component of the mobility transition. The City Cycling campaign provides the right tool for this. "With our new online portal, Bike Monitor, local authorities can see where there is a lot of cycle traffic, where it flows quickly and where it stagnates. It is also easy to see where cyclists have to wait for long periods at traffic lights and where shortcuts are overused because there is no well-developed cycle path. On this basis, local authorities can improve the cycling infrastructure as required." The data for the Bike Monitor portal, already available to municipalities in the German State of Hesse, is obtained from the routes tracked by app during City Cycling. These are first comprehensively anonymised and then scientifically evaluated.
Last year, over 1.1 million people from 2,886 municipalities took part in the City Cycling campaign, covering almost 220 million kilometres by bike. Municipalities and cyclists worldwide can register for City Cycling 2025 through September. In Frankfurt alone, 6,916 people in 322 teams took part in the campaign last year. Over 1.2 million kilometres were cycled.
City Cycling is an international campaign of Climate Alliance Services and is supported by Ortlieb, linexo by WERTGARANTIE, ABUS, Busch + Müller, Schwalbe and Paul Lange & Co.
In the German state of Hesse, the campaign is supported by the ADFC Hessen and the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport, Housing and Rural Areas.
In Frankfurt, the campaign is organised by the Frankfurt Environmental Office and supported by the Cycling Office, the Sports Office and the Occupational Health Protection Department in the Personnel and Organisation Office.
Further information
Contacts
Sebastian Reisch
Communications Team City Cycling, Climate Alliance Services
+49 69 7171 39 -30 | kommunikation@stadtradeln.de
Sarah Mekjian
Communications Director, Climate Alliance
+49 69 7171 39 -20 | communications(at)klimabuendnis.org
Lea Kreher
Public Relations, Environmental Agency, City of Frankfurt
+49 69 212-71386 | presse.umweltamt(at)stadt-frankfurt.de
