Initiatives introduced in recent years in Brussels are bearing fruit. A growing number of people in the Belgian capital are swapping use of their cars for public transport. And that’s just the beginning, as a new low-traffic zone is set to be inaugurated in the city center in the summer of 2022. Every year, the number of journeys made by bicycle in Brussels increases by an average of 20%, according to data from Brussels Mobility. In 2020, a record year, it even increased by 64%. A counter along the Molenbeek canal cycle path even passed the symbolic one-million-trip mark in December 2021, a fi…