The Barcelona Declaration

Press Release - 1 April 2023

International Meeting of Bike Buses in Barcelona

The bike bus community demands that our political leaders re-prioritize urban

space and resources for child friendly, healthy and safer streets.

The first global meeting of bike bike buses took place 30-31st of March with the aim of sharing

experiences and learning about how Bici Bus works in Barcelona. Bike Bus organizers from all

over the world participated and shared their vision on school mobility by bicycle.

The Barcelona bike bus, which started two years ago and currently moves approximately 700

people a week in 7 districts, has become a global reference and has inspired other educational

communities to start their own bike buses.

The meeting was attended by around thirty bike-bus organizers from Portland (USA), Glasgow

(Scotland), Cardiff (Wales), Worcester (England), Colònia, Frankfurt (Germany), Vic and

Barcelona, and researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Barcelona

Institute for Global Health and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The BACC and the

coordinator of the global Kidical Mass also participated.

The event was held over two days and included a session of shared learning and joint strategy

on Thursday 30th, and the participation of the attendees in the Sant Antoni line bike bus on

Wednesday 31st at 8:30 am.

During the event, an outline of the Barcelona Declaration on the Bicycle Bus has been worked

on, which will be made public in the next weeks.

The event has produced the first draft of the Barcelona Declaration on the bicycle bus that will

be published soon. It has also taken advantage of the presence of the coordinator of the global

Kidical Mass to announce the date of the next Kidical Mass in Barcelona which will be held on

Sunday 7th of May as well as two new international BikeBus days; a virtual edition at the end

of 2023 and a second edition of the BikeBus Summit in Frankfurt during 2024.

One of the agreements reached was the commitment to work on the expansion of the global

bikebus network. The increase in the number of connected cities and organizations will allow to

define and develop in a more pluralistic way the necessary actions to achieve in a short term

more friendly and child-friendly cities.