骑自行车的社区为欧洲的经济增长奠定了贡献

“我们可以通过对骑自行车的投资为欧洲人创造更多的工作，而不仅仅是因为它具有创造绿色和可持续工作的经过验证的纪录，而且因为它对欧盟更广泛的目标作出了巨大的贡献。ECF发展局主任Kevin Mayne表示，我们的合作伙伴准备在骑自行车的目前的650,000个工作岗位和每年捐款217亿欧元的贡献。

ECF有三个焦点，对应于三个新出版物：
- 我们通过提供欧盟补贴进行骑自行车措施，我们需要更多进入骑自行车的投资
-We need to integrate cycling into growth plans
- 我们需要为骑自行车者提供财政福利

Cycling boosts jobs and growth

According to ECF’s report “Jobs and job creation in the European cycling sector”, there are more than 650,000 full-time jobs linked to cycling today in Europe. This number is estimated to increase up to 1 million jobs by 2020 if cycling modal share doubles, as ECF vision supports.

In terms of investments, many member states and the European Union have protected funding streams for job creation. So this study is a resource to help supporters of cycling seek funding in those areas too.

Policies and resources for cycling investment

为了促进国家和地区政府ECF将最有效的税收和促销激励汇总在一起，以支持骑自行车。有史以来第一次，ECF提供11个欧洲国家的案例研究，分析了通勤中里程津贴，税收津贴和自行车采购计划的发挥状态。

在资源方面，ECF发现，从欧盟补贴骑自行车到2020年，可以解锁超过20亿欧元的欧元。这一金额比前一期更大三倍。“我们应该立即采取这个机会”，亚当·博均州区域政策主任Adam Bodor表示。通过将国家资金和私人资本与欧洲金钱结合起来，会员国可以从一个非凡的投资回报中受益，同时履行其对干净和可持续增长的承诺。

The timing of presenting Cycling for Growth plan could not be more fitting at the European level as the new EU Commission has announced a €300bn investment plan for reaching the targets on jobs and growth by 2020. Cycling welcomes the Junker investment plan with high hopes. Through these studies, ECF shows that cycling is ready to play an important role in the future of Europe and we are going to use them to argue that cycling should get part of this investment too.