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This Wednesday morning the mayor of Cartagena, José López, presented the Strategic Plan 'M17' of the City.
The first mayor has been accompanied by the general director of infrastructure Manuel Nicolás, the manager of the municipal society Casco Antiguo, Antonio García, and the head of the Infrastructures area, Matías Yepes.
The Strategic Plan 'M17' symbolizes the will of the area of ​​Sustainable Development, directed by López, to project a more friendly and accessible municipality, assuming the commitment to execute, throughout this year, twenty measures of a significant depth that contribute to the Fulfillment of this purpose.
The plan presented today began with the pilot experience developed at the end of last year, designed to promote sustainable mobility and care for the environment, with the provision of deterrent car parks (Severo Ochoa and Cartagonova) from where they left Free public buses to the historic center.
José López has begun by thanking all the attendees, in particular, "to the representatives of UPCT, Chamber of Commerce, ALSA, Port Authority, ETRA, taxi sector and FAVCAC", to attend the presentation of the catalog Of 20 measures in mobility that the Sustainable Development area has worked in coordination with other areas of the Government, especially the Interior, to be implemented in 2017.
The councilman said that "some of these measures have already been approved in the Municipal Plenary, such as the master plan of Smart City, while some are already public and known, such as buses 'M17', during the Christmas and Holy Week have served to vertebrate our municipality, and others are presented as a novelty this morning. "
The first mayor announced that the ongoing work they are developing in the area of ​​Sustainable Development "will enable this Strategic Plan to begin the pathways of participation and knowledge of the real situation of mobility in Cartagena, essential aspects such as necessary and A network of cycle lanes, for which next month of June will be constituted a table of participation "that compromised some dates to the collectives," the study of the behavior of pedestrians, the true axis of mobility, through the Chair Of municipal infrastructures with the UPCT ", in addition to dealing with" sectors needed for the understanding and study of the administration, such as the taxi sector for which a strategic plan will be drawn up "with the lines that will be agreed with the associations, "To work on the modernization and optimization of this service".
The mayor said that the concrete measures "are designed to make Cartagena a friendlier and more accessible municipality, and do it in the hands of neighbors, mobility associations, merchants and entrepreneurs and the university, among others, who will participate together With the municipal technicians of solutions that must not only be good, but also beloved ones. "
López emphasized that "this plan 'M17' is an excellent work of the municipal technicians" that is made public for its knowledge and improvement.
"We are building the Cartagena of our children, ours, we grow older, which helps to enjoy it to neighbors and visitors," he said.
"Many of the projects are underway, others will have to be budgeted as a result of participation next year, but here are the 20 measures we are in a position to implement this 2017," concluded the mayor.
GUIDELINES FOR PLAN 'M17'
The head of the Infrastructures area, Matías Yepes, has specified the list of measures that make up the Strategic Plan 'M17', with 'some of them in progress' or 'under study for imminent implementation'.
This is a total of 20 guidelines, including the drafting of a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan in La Manga;
Drafting of a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan in Cartagena;
Establishment of a series of intermodal public and private transport areas for access to the historic center;
Regulation of access to restricted areas of the center;
The implementation of measures to increase the added value of public transport;
Increase of semi-uniform zones;
Putting into service of 'zones 30' (applying restricted speed in vehicles and giving priority to the pedestrian);
Improvement in the infrastructure of large roads;
Increased interconnection of cycle lanes;
The implementation of the bicycle rental system;
Establishment of a recharge network for electric vehicles;
Creation of 'supermanzanas', which entails a categorization of public roads taking into account that the 'supermanzanas' force the vehicles to turn so that the pedestrian recovers the space;
Creation of a network of deterrent car parks;
Implementation of a state-of-the-art traffic control system;
Endowment of the Municipality of a fleet of clean vehicles;
Creation of an information system for public / private parking spaces, as well as the development of a network of green corridors in the city and outskirts, and the interconnection between the urban center and the outskirts.
INNOVATIVE URBAN ACTIONS
Casco Antiguo manager, Antonio García, has transmitted the details of the municipal participation, together with the UPCT, the Chamber of Commerce, ALSA, Port Authority, ETRA and FAVCAC, in the European call UIA (Innovative Urban Actions, by Its acronym in English).
Cartagena has presented its project 'AccCentrum;
Accessibility for Citizenship to the Center of Cartagena: Universal Mobility ', which is valued at 3,431,687 euros, of which 80% would come from Feder Funds.
The objective of this initiative is to promote the sustainability, urban attractiveness and economic development of the Old Town of Cartagena by improving the mobility of the target population groups.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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