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- "Without the update of the Accessibility Plan, which is already a decade old, nothing is going to be done to really reduce the main restrictions and obstacles that many members of our citizens face every day," the spokesperson said. orange, Manuel Padín

- Cs denounces that the PSOE Government has not complied with the installation of accessible containers

"Without the Technical Office of Accessibility, without an updated accessibility plan and without a multiannual calendar of concrete deadlines and investments, we have not done anything," the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, after two months since he met two months ago. will constitute the Municipal Commission of Accessibility, "if we consider the fiasco that have supposed other work tables like the one of Commerce, the one of Drogodependencias, the one of the Algameca Chica, the one of Animal Welfare, the one of the Pact by the Night or the one of Citizen Participation among others, we have reason to fear the worst with accessibility, we do not want this space to be an excuse to save time and justify the lack of investment ".

In addition, among the powers of this office is the coordination of the Commission, "it does not seem reasonable to set up the Commission but not the body that should coordinate it," says Padín.

The orange spokesman recalls that in order to carry out an action plan to eliminate architectural barriers the first thing that is necessary is for the Technical Office to execute our amendment 2017: the update of the Accessibility Plan to the needs of the Cartagena of 2018, "he explained. Manuel Padín who says that "it is necessary to have a current study of the state of accessibility in the municipality, the plan that exists now is a decade ago, because only then, we can really undertake, in a viable, planned and prioritized, the pertinent actions adjusting to the ordinance in the most unfavorable spaces ".

"Without this update of the Accessibility Plan, nothing is going to be done to really reduce the main restrictions and obstacles that many members of our citizens face every day," said the orange spokesman who has advanced who will also ask in the Plenary for the reserves that are foreseen in the 2019 budget to undertake the first works and thus adapt to the requirements of the ordinance.

Long journey

"The 2016-2019 Municipal Disability Plan was announced in July 2016, the main consequence of which was the final approval in March 2018 of the Universal Accessibility Regulatory Ordinance that entered into force in June 2018. This ordinance required the updating of the accessibility plan that is a decade old and unusable, and the creation of the Commission and the Technical Office of Accessibility (OTA).

Accessible containers, breach

On the other hand, Cs denounces that the PSOE continues without fulfilling its commitment, following an agreement promoted by the orange training in August 2018, to adapt the municipality's containers in a progressive manner to make them accessible also to people with disabilities or reduced mobility.

"Cartagena has to be an open and accessible city, and for this it is necessary to facilitate that all people can carry out without difficulty or barriers something as everyday as throwing garbage or recycling," defends the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín.

The containers of urban waste and recycling that are currently on the streets of Cartagena are not adapted to be used by people with disabilities presenting high holes and burdensome opening systems, "in a municipality of more than 217,000 inhabitants is something more how striking, "says Padín.

There are containers in the market that do comply with the legislation on accessibility and have all the requirements that make them suitable for use by these groups, "only lack or little political will," says Padin who recalls that the councilor socialist, Juan Pedro Torralba, said he would install the first imminently "but of course, after more than half a year of this announcement nothing is known."

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena