27 November 2025

Rheine’s mayor, Dr Peter Lüttmann, emphasises the city’s commitment to cycling and the signal effect that City Cycling has: “For many years, we in Rheine have been strongly committed to promoting cycling. Our goal is to establish cycling and walking as key forms of mobility in the urban area. Our repeated success in City Cycling confirms this commitment.” Rheine took first place in the “most cycling-friendly municipality” category for three years in a row. Although the city had to relinquish the title this year, its motivation remains unbroken. “We are doing everything we can to achieve another top ranking in City Cycling 2026. At the same time, we will continue our efforts to further expand and continuously improve the cycling infrastructure in Rheine,” Dr Lüttmann continued.

State Secretary Haase also sees this year’s number of participants in City Cycling as a clear signal that sends a message to politicians and administrators: “More than 1.2 million cyclists taking part in City Cycling impressively demonstrate how great the willingness to switch is.

To do so, they need safe and comfortable cycle paths. That is why we are consistently pushing ahead with the expansion of cycling infrastructure – it is a central element of the mobility transition.”

For André Muno, Managing Director of Climate Alliance Services, the success of the campaign is also reflected in the further development of the associated tools. This year, for example, the new Bike Monitor cycling data platform was presented to the German City Cycling municipalities: “We are thus offering municipalities and ministries an important building block for data-based and cycling-friendly infrastructure planning. They can see at a glance, for example, where cycle traffic flows well or where it is slowed down by long traffic light phases.” The platform collates anonymised route data from almost 500,000 City Cycling app users. This data is evaluated by transport scientists at Dresden Technical University and their partner Vision Velo.