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| The mobilizations begin with a bike and skate ride through the urban area, on January 3 at 11 am | As the closing of the annual budget approaches, the Municipal Government has begun to carry out urban actions for our municipality, but it has done so without giving participation to the groups of users of the municipality and without taking into account the criteria of sustainable urban mobility that would favor the walking, cycling or rollerblading modes.
"We are staunch defenders of the need to maintain both urban and interurban roads, but we cannot understand the narrow-mindedness of the people responsible for the City Council who carry it out.
An example of lack of interest, not to call it ineptitude, has been what has happened in the municipal action in the Plaza de las Puertas de San José.
Only a little paint was necessary, to give continuity to the Capitanes Ripol bike lane with that of the Cuesta del Batel and having resolved one of the disconnections, which 18 years later, continue to exist in the bike lane belt.
However, we are indignant that this necessary and committed action has not been carried out.
Small gestures like this one, they represent a great step towards sustainable and active urban mobility,since they would give safety to cyclists, who use the unconnected lanes of the city daily; and it would encourage many more people to use the bicycle, both when commuting to work and during the weekend leisure "indicates Susana Ot n Costa from the Colectivo MoviliCT for your Health The same happens in the pedestrian crossing of Bª de la Concepci n, despite the fact that in the past week maintenance works have been carried out in the area, it remains as it was.
"How many abuses must occur in that place for our municipal government to act? As necessary as the adaptation of the pedestrian walkway was to take measures to give safety to all the people who use it to go to work, or to carry out physical or leisure activities.
We have already expressed the need to reduce the speed at the beginning of the street, to 30 or 20 km / h, signal it correctly and raise it, in addition to lighting it.
It is a small investment.
In comparison with the increase in security that it would report to all those who use it ", comments Eduardo Lucas Muñiz, from the Bicue Association.
Special mention requires the development of the Avenida del Cantón road.
"It is unacceptable that after having held a meeting with the responsible municipal technician, Mr.
Vicente P rez Zulueta and having asked him: 1) that the maximum speed allowed was 30 Km / h (fixed Being in so many cities that go in that direction, 2) that the pedestrian crossings were over elevated and 3) that the bike lane goes along the road, they have ignored us and have designed a work that is It will become an urban highway.
To this day, it seems foolish, irresponsible and anchored in the past, that the speed allowed on that road is 50 km / h.
This coupled with the lack of of pedestrian crossings on the straight that joins the two roundabouts, will help vehicles circulate at high speedswith the danger that this will pose for pedestrians and cyclists.
It must be taken into account that the buildings projected on both sides are residential buildings, an educational center already in operation and a large green area for the leisure of Cartagena.
That large road in the middle will make it difficult to connect between both sides of it, endangering people who want to go to the other side ", says Jos ngel Vivancos Rom n, coordinator of the V Association.
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"In addition, the Avenida del Canton road is a retaining wall for the waters that naturally flow from Mount Atalaya and the Sierra de Pelayo to the Rambla de Benipila.
We are very afraid that at times of intense rain, the usual floods in the area are aggravated, especially in the area of ??the Municipal Nursery and Red Floors ", indicates Paula Valdivieso Ferr ndiz of Mothers for Climate "We are waiting for the City Council to convene the meeting of the Mobility Table, scheduled for the beginning of January, but as of today we have not received any notification or call or response to all contributions that we carry out, both for the Navantia Mobility plan and the SUMP.
We are not going to stand idly by, seeing how the government team wastes quickly and running everyone's money, without following a minimum criterion of sustainable mobility, just as the majority of Spanish and European cities do, "says Loto Fern ndez R mila of the Colectivo MoviliCT for your Health.
The bicifestation scheduled for day 3 will tour the streets of the old town, from the Puerta de la Milagrosa on Calle San Diego.
Later, he will go to the Bª de la Concepci n bridge, to remind the government team that they have not taken any measures in that pedestrian crossing, where Oscar, the Navantia worker died in October, three months ago.
The tour will end in the San Jos Obrero neighborhood, to protest the lack of connections by bike lane with the neighborhoods of Cartagena.
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Source: Colectivo MoviliCT por tu Salud
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