A fleet of red and black e-bikes is ready to color the streets of Foggia and connect its people
strategic points. The new bike sharing service created and managed by the is called «Let’s Fo’».
iFun autistic girls and boys, in collaboration with the University of
Foggia and the supermarket chain “La Prima – Mercati di Città”.
«Let’s Fo’» was designed for 14,000 people including students, teachers and technical staff
and administrative staff of the University who live, study and work in Foggia. Everyday,
these people frequent the classrooms and other spaces of the 7 Departments located in different locations
areas of the city, in addition to the residential, sporting and administrative services distributed throughout the fabric
urban according to the multipolar system that characterizes the University. And that’s exactly it
multipolar system that makes «Let’s Fo’», with its widespread network of e-bikes, a service
essential to improve sustainable mobility in cities.
«Let’s Fo’» – born thanks to the project “A tutto no gas!”, one of the three Apulian projects
supported by Fondazione Con il Sud, as part of the Call for sustainable mobility at
South designed to promote a new culture of mobility with alternative choices
to the use of private cars – has the support of the Puglia Region and the Municipality of
Foggia and aims to promote sustainable and inclusive mobility in the city.
«Let’s Fo’» will be officially presented in Foggia next Wednesday 3 July at
10.30am in Piazza Cavour, at the entrance to the pedestrian area of Via Lanza. At the presentation,
in addition to Maurizio Alloggio, founder and president of iFun, the Mayor of will take part
Foggia, Maria Aida Episcopo, the vice-president of the Puglia Region, Raffaele Piemontese,
the Rector of the University of Foggia, Lorenzo Lo Muzio, and the administrator of the
“La Prima – Mercati di Città” supermarkets, Luigi Giannatempo. From that day they will begin
registrations for the bike sharing service, open until all qualifications are available
authorizable. The service will be free until Sunday 22 September. Members will be able to
preview the service and provide valuable feedback for its improvement.
“The name chosen to characterize the bike sharing service and pedal bicycles
assisted «Let’s Fo’» – explains Alloggio – is a play on words that pushes towards movement
zero emissions and, echoing the popular football incitement «’za Fo’», aspires to
represent a piece of the civic resurgence sought by the Foggia community.”
On the eve of the start of this experimental phase, the project was illustrated to the neo
regional councilor for Transport, Debora Ciliento, and the vice-president of the Region
Puglia, Piemontese. At the end of the meeting held in the offices of the Assessorati
regional offices in Via Gentile, in Bari, the regional transport councilor underlined
how the project represents a model to be replicated throughout Puglia: “It’s important
underline – said Ciliento – how this project carries forward the concept of
sustainability in its broadest sense: that of sustainable mobility, because
promotes the use of bicycles in the city, but also that of social sustainability, since it is
was created by the iFun association and will be managed by autistic boys and girls, giving
them the opportunity to enter a working context. I am very happy to point out
as well as the transport sector, which with Local Public Transport is at the service of
citizens and aims to improve not only the connectivity of places but also the liveability of
city, thanks to this type of initiative, is able to encourage social cohesion”.
The entity responsible for the «Let’s Fo’» project is Ghenos, a type A social cooperative
with experience in the management of social-health, training and education services
permanent. It was created by iFun, an association for the social promotion of families with
autistic people, born in Foggia in 2013.
For the operational management of the service, Chara, a social cooperative, was established
type B created precisely to introduce fragile people, with physical disadvantages, into the world of work,
psychic or social. Among these, iFun’s autistic children will have the opportunity to acquire
skills and work autonomy.
The spin-off of the University of Foggia “Io fare futuro” – born from the “iDO” project –
“Io Faccio Futuro”, also supported by Fondazione con il Sud – will deal with the
research and monitoring of the processes linked to the “Let’s Fo’” service, collecting data and
useful information to optimize the service and measure its impact on mobility and
quality of life in the city.
With «Let’s Fo’», Foggia takes an important step towards a more sustainable future
inclusive. A project that demonstrates how collaboration between public, private and
third sector associations can give life to innovative and concrete solutions for
improve the quality of life of citizens.
