VeGAL with project Inter Bike III continues to play an important role in the implementation of intermodality along the Giralemene cycle path. The Giralemene cycle route has been included in the Veneto Region's Cycling Mobility Master Plan and is the tourism product of the Interreg Italy-Slovenia 2007-14 "Inter Bike" and 2014-20 "Inter Bike II" project, which connects Ravenna, Venice, Trieste, Koper and Kranjska Gora. The product is promoted by the Regions, Provinces and Municipalities of the area concerned and coordinated by VeGAL on the Italian side.
In Cavanella, in the municipality of Concordia Sagittaria, a public pier will be built that will allow passengers to disembark from the boat coming from Caorle and proceed inland by bicycle or e-bike, visiting the remains of the Roman city of Concordia Sagittaria and the beautiful town of Portogruaro, whose palaces recall the golden age of the Serenissima Republic of Venice.
A bicycle rental service for bikes and e-bikes, will be activated in the vicinity of the pier, thus allowing tourists who have come to Caorle for seaside tourism to enjoy the pleasure of a bicycle tour exploring the hinterland. The municipal public pier will become part of the municipal property: it will have no commercial purpose and is intended to contribute to and improve the public use services of the Giralemene cycle path.
The service will be guaranteed by another project partner: the company Caorle.it, which will purchase a boat that will run the route between Duna Verde and Caorle and along the Lemene river between Caorle and Concordia Sagittaria. Now there are no multimodal services on these lines and the partner has great experience in creating short boat and boat+bike tours, especially in the Caorle lagoon. The service will be free of charge and - also within the framework of Inter Bike III - a model for its management will be created which will guarantee its financial sustainability upon completion of the project.
From the point of view of sustainability in the Northern Adriatic, the project contributes to enhancing the cross-border bicycle network by making it greener and improving the quality and widening the variety of the tourist offer, especially in a way of ‘slow tourism’ concept. In fact, boat+bike intermodality offer contributes to attracting new types of tourists, to deseasonalising flows by favouring the discovery and enhancement of territories also by elderly people, families with small children and less trained users. The construction of a public pier will also help reduce road traffic pressure, especially during the summer season when there is a great tourist pressure on the Venetian coastline.
