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| The development of the Plan will be in charge of the UPCT professor Salvador García-Ayllón through a participatory process where all the social and business agents of the municipality will be involved | The Cartagena City Council has presented at the mobility table session held this Wednesday, October 28, the master lines and the work plan of the future Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) of the municipality.

This new instrument, developed within the framework of the Cartagena City Council-UPCT infrastructure chair, will serve to plan and manage mobility in the city of Cartagena and its entire municipality.The Councilor for Sustainable City and European Projects, Cristina Mora, explained that "Cartagena will have a next-generation Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) in 2021, which will collect all the challenges and recent challenges that have arisen in society after the pandemic "and highlighted that" we will do it through a comprehensive participatory process, where all social agents, business agents, political parties and institutions of reference in the municipality such as the UPCT are involved, which will be in charge of drafting the Plan together to the Cartagena City Council ”.“We want a more open and sustainable Cartagena, with new public spaces open to pedestrians and the use of the bicycle with accessible and safe routes, the improvement of the connection and the expansion of bicycle lanes, improvement of air quality and noise, and the commitment to the environment with more sustainable public transport ”, highlighted Mora.As explained by the mayor of Vía Pública, Juan Pedro Torralba, “we constitute the first Mobility Table with the participation and consensus of all social groups, political groups and public transport sectors in order to jointly develop a plan of Mobility for the municipality of Cartagena.

We have collected the proposals and suggestions that the different collectives and political groups that have been grouped into 7 lines of work, which are plans and programs, services, cycle lanes and green corridors, safe roads, public transport and parking, legal regulations and campaigns and training actions ".The councilor added that “we have also committed to include the work on Esparta street, which connects Capitanes Ripoll with Ronda La Unión and with this we would end one of the cycle lane cycles, we are also seeing with the Local Police the possibility of expanding in Calle Pérez Espejo, the car parks that would be eliminated on Calle Esparta, just as we reorganized Calle Juan Fernández, Calle Jiménez de la Espada, the inclusion of new pedestrian crossings in Alameda San Antón or improvements to the signage that we are already doing taking place throughout the municipality ”.The Plan, which is being drafted by the professor of the transport infrastructure engineering area of ??the UPCT, Salvador García-Ayllón, will be proposed in two phases and will consist of a broad participatory process that will allow collecting the contributions of all the actors and groups interested in mobility.In the first phase, which is already under development, a progress document will be drawn up that will assess the viability of the proposals made by the different agents, actors and associations involved or interested in mobility in the municipality.This document will carry out a diagnosis on the mobility of the city of Cartagena and its municipality, subsequently developing a strategic approach of what the future scenarios can and should be, and what objectives should be achieved in accordance with the 2030 sustainable development objectives , which in this field marks the United Nations.

This strategic approach will be translated into a series of operational programs developed with different actions, to improve urban and interurban mobility from a conceptual point of view, making it more efficient and sustainable.Professor García-Ayllón, doctor architect and engineer of Roads, Canals and Ports, is responsible for various subjects of planning of transport infrastructures and urban planning in the master of engineering of roads, channels and ports of the UPCT, which he explained during the presentation at the mobility table that "SUMP proposes a new city model based on the philosophy of" the city of 15 minutes ", which has been implemented with very good results in the city of Paris".The results of this first phase will be reflected in this progress document, which will be presented again to the mobility table and submitted to a public information process, to collect the necessary allegations from all interested parties, which will allow the preparation of a final executive document of the SUMP during the second phase.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena