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- "We are going to ensure that the 2019 budget, if the PSOE ever deigns to present it, includes the announced projects (Captains Ripoll-Ronda Ciudad de La Unión and Wsell de Guimbarda-Alameda pavilion), but also a sufficient amount for start a first phase to recover our battered bike lanes, "announced today the local spokesman for Citizens

Cartagena, Sunday, January 13.

Ciudadanos announces that one of its objectives for the next budgets will be to recover the deteriorated bicycle lanes of the municipality, and increase its kilometers.

The objective is to progressively close the urban belt of bike lanes, if possible with a homogeneous structure, which the City Council committed to do more than 15 years ago and which now form several unconnected sections in poor condition.

"We are going to ensure that the 2019 budget, if the PSOE ever deigns to present it, include the announced projects (Captains Ripoll-Ronda City of La Union and Wsell pavilion of Guimbarda-Alameda, as today's La Opinion newspaper publishes) , but also a sufficient departure to begin a first phase to recover our battered bike lanes ", announced today Manuel Padín.

Intense work of Cs

Citizens has already denounced on several occasions that for years, the Government of Cartagena has in its hands a document with proposals and projects in the short, medium and long term prepared by the groups and associations of the sector in Cartagena, "but lack of political will to develop a true Municipal Cyclist Mobility Master Plan, and to bet on campaigns to promote the use of bicycles to go to work or school and educational workshops, 'biciescuela', and the design of a safe school path program ".

"That is why we join the claim of the MoviliCT association and we will formally request the forgotten Municipal Mobility Table," warns Padín.

Pedestrian and Bicycle Office, forgotten

In this sense, the local spokesman of Cs recalled that in September 2016, PSOE and MC presented a motion, approved unanimously, to analyze through an economic and budgetary study the feasibility and convenience of setting up a Pedestrian Office and the Bicycle, "of course, after more than two years since the agreement, we do not know anything about that study or its conclusions, and less about that office that would come to centralize the knowledge and proposals of this group, an issue that we will ask again in the next ordinary Plenary. "

The Office of the Pedestrian and Bicycle has been operating for several years in Zaragoza, Barcelona, ​​Madrid or Murcia, "how easy it would have been to request in 2016 to the City Council of the neighboring city a report on the organization and budget of this municipal structure", regrets Manuel Padín.

The little that has been done is a botched MC

On the occasion of the complaints of the residents of Santa Ana who consider "the very deficient project" already completed of the cycle path by which the City invested 74,000 euros, Manuel Padín argues that the level of incompetence of MC when he governed still gives us embarrassment and embarrassment, "a joke bike lane, with problems of width and lighting, with light poles and trees in the middle of the path blocking the way".

"It is not enough to bid and ignore, but you have to do things well, and then apply a follow-up work, maintenance and correct the wrong," said Manuel Padin who understands that it would be good if this City Council learned of the mistakes made to have the next time more foresight;

now what it touches is to mend the unstitched and to give the necessary adjustments to have a work of future that satisfies the needs of its users ".

Road Safety, also for cyclists

The spokesman for Cs also denounces that "our Group promoted a plenary agreement in September 2017 for the Government to design an improvement plan for safety and visibility in pedestrian crossings with the updating of vertical signaling and the regulation of the speed bumps of the municipality, "nothing has been done, and there are innumerable cases in which the preferred cyclist pass signal is badly signaled or does not exist when it should be;

Sometimes pedestrians or bicycles are so far from the roundabouts that they force their users to travel many unnecessary kilometers ".

Third world lanes and the Bicity service

In October 2017, Ciudadanos denounced the deficient and third world status of the bike lanes network in the municipality, "so we asked the City of Cartagena to carry out a review by the municipal technicians of the state of these roads, but of course nothing has been done, "complains Padín, who notes that" we request that the repainting of those sections that need it be carried out, the recovery of the deteriorated pavement, solving the security problems in some sections and undertaking campaigns to raise the awareness of the pedestrian that he should not use these spaces, among other issues. "

The orange spokesman also wanted to know when it is going to consolidate the recovery of bicycle rental service 'Bicity' and when the municipal government expected that the Cartagena will enjoy this service with all the guarantees and recalled that a year earlier, the local government He assured that he was concluding the technical specifications, a prerequisite to be able to bid for the service.

As far as Cs can know, the PSOE Government continues to ensure that the technical specifications for the Bicity service, after two years, is being finalized.

According to Manuel Padín, "these government responses seem like a joke in bad taste, two years to finish the statement is something hard to believe, we fear that what happens here is that there is no capacity, no will, no desire to do something positive for the bicycle in Cartagena ".

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena