According to the plan, at the end of 2025, Lisbon will go from a cycling network with the current 173 kilometres to a total of 263, with the construction of a further 56 connecting cycle paths being planned, with the aim of "improving and connecting the infrastructure already in the city", said the vice-president of the municipality, Filipe Anacoreta Correia.

"We are talking about a total of €13 million in investments, more than 90 kilometres, and we are including for the first time a budgetary allocation also for the maintenance of cycle paths, worth 1.7 million euros", he said, highlighting that maintenance begins this month and will be provided through EMEL.

There are also Gira bicycle stations, which currently number 150, there will be 190 by the end of 2025, with 1,900 bicycles, of which 1,800 are electric, and will reach all 24 parishes.

The plan also includes two million euros to connect schools to the cycling network, in addition to the 400 thousand euros that the municipality received as financial support from the BICI Bloomberg Program to connect cycle paths to 20 schools, covering 20 thousand students.

According to Anacoreta Correia, the municipality is now trying to work to improve the weaknesses detected, but after this phase, it will expand the network.

"I believe that, in the first half of next year, we can move to another phase. Having overcome the weaknesses that are identified in the existing infrastructure, we can move towards growth beyond this infrastructure", he said.