How to improve cycling conditions? The Knowledge Base by Cyklisté sobě offers advice

Legislation, Standards, and Sample Comments

The knowledge base was developed in response to a request from the community for tools to facilitate more effective communication with authorities, particularly for easier commentary on proposals for general measures, which are often quite inadequate in terms of cycling infrastructure. We offer this collection of knowledge, tools, and services to those who intend to engage more actively with authorities and politicians.

The knowledge base contains links to selected laws, standards, and technical conditions useful for communication regarding cycling measures or commenting on proposed changes to traffic signage. It also includes tools such as map services, a directory of official notice boards, an accident map, and more. Templates for submitting comments will be available upon request for serious users.

Below, we list some of the links currently available in the knowledge base. We will continue to add more tools and guides: also based on community requests, so feel free to contribute your suggestions.

Reporting issues and problems, Prague

• Zmente.to – a general city form for reporting problems and suggestions
• Reporting defects on roads to TSK

Guides related to commenting on projects and providing feedback

• Advocacy Manual IV – Designing roads in the Czech Republic (MNK 2022): Standards, regulations, what is mandatory, what makes sense to request, and what is unrealistic. (MŠ) (Also in English, here)
• Cyclists in the ČSN 73 6110 standard (MNK 2019): Contains quotes from the standard that can be used to support cycling measures. (VF)
• TP 179 – New rules for cycling measures (MNK 2017): Summary and explanation of basic options for designing cycling measures. (VF)
• Advocacy Manual V – Where street designs are negotiated (MNK 2022): The process of project preparation, who is involved, and how it proceeds. (MŠ) (Also in English, here)
• Advocacy Manual VI: Submitting objections when determining traffic signage (MNK 2022): What is a general measure, its review, comment, objection. (MŠ) (Also in English, here)
• Advocacy Manual VII: The binding nature of police statements (MNK 2022): (MŠ) (Also in English, here)
• Cyklisté sobě, read the official notice boards (MNK 2023): A guide on how to monitor official notice boards. (VF)
• Establishing contraflow bike lanes in existing street networks (MNK 2021): where and under what circumstances can a contraflow bike lane be established. (VF)
• We count traffic for cycling measures (MNK 2024, VF) – to be published on Městem na kole in August.

Prague

• Cycling measures according to Prague’s Active Mobility Standards (MNK 2024, VF) (Also in English, here)
• The sidewalk is not a parking lot – recording of AutoMat’s seminar from January 22, 2024.

Tools for commenting on projects and providing feedback

Czechia

• edesky.cz – an aggregator of official notice boards from many municipalities in Czechia, with an option to set up email alerts.
• Map by Městem na kole (state of infrastructure, screenshots)
• Streetmix – a simple web tool for drawing street profiles, you can easily click through and create visually appealing designs.
• Nehody.cdv.cz – a map of accidents recorded by the Czech police, with the ability to filter accidents involving cyclists.
• ČUZK map services including viewing services for GIS. [ČUZK – THE Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and the Cadaster – eds.]

Prague

• Prague Atlas by the Institute of Planning and Development (detailed aerial images, valid system of city-wide cycling routes – temporary link, technical map – networks, valid land use plan)
• ArcGis online services IPR Prague – interface for connecting layers into GIS (e.g., aerial images, street network, cycling route system, land use plan…).
• Geodatabase of issues addressed by the AutoMat association (where issues are being or have been addressed, including history).

Standards and Regulations

Basic Standards and TP

• ČSN 73 6110 Design of Local Roads
• TP 179 Designing Roads for Cyclists 
• Regulation 294/2015, which implements the rules of road traffic, mainly contains a description of traffic signs (viewable, PDF downloadable)

Other for Czechia:

• Law 361/2000 on Road Traffic
• Directory of issued Technical Conditions in the field of transportation and TP, downloadable from the pjpk.cz website, includes:
  • TP 65 – Principles for traffic signage on roads
  • TP 81 – Designing traffic signal systems for road traffic management, addendum no. 1
  • TP 100 – Principles for orientation traffic signage on roads
  • TP 103 – Designing residential and pedestrian zones
  • TP 132 – Principles for traffic calming on local roads
  • TP 133 – Principles for horizontal traffic signage on roads
  • TP 189 – Determining traffic volumes on roads

Prague

• Active Mobility Standards (2022) and Active Mobility Strategy
• Public Space Design Manual (2014)
• Concept of Paved and Asphalt Surfaces by the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (2015)
• Activities of the State Administration for Roads in Prague

Something missing?

Do you use other maps, websites, or tools in your negotiations on cycling measures, refer to other standards or laws, or know of important court rulings? Would you like to add another type of resource to the knowledge base? Is there something missing that you would like to see a guide written for in your negotiations on cycling measures? Write in the comments or email vratislav.filler@auto-mat.cz.