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The City of Cartagena, through the Office of the bicycle, has announced the launch soon of a new Internet portal, the Market of the bike, with which you can buy, sell or give away bicycles.
This initiative was announced during the First Conference on Sustainable Mobility in the Region of Murcia, which are being held at the Museo del Teatro Romano de Cartagena and yesterday dedicated the day to a subject, the bicycle as urban transport .
In this regard, other prominent local initiatives that have taken place since the Office of the bicycle, created as a legacy of the Local Agenda 21, are Bicity system deployment and implementation of programs and share car share parking, Cartagena's third city to be most in use.
With respect to Bicity, designed to cover small daily trips are made by the city without producing smoke or noise, there are currently aparcabici 52 points and 29 kilometers of bicycle lanes.
It has also implemented an auto loan, which will facilitate the use of this infrastructure, and is no longer free, but will have a nominal charge to try to prevent bicycle theft that occurred in previous years.
More S OF 1,000 KILA "Cycling Master METERS
The director general of Transport and Ports of the Autonomous Community, Carmen Sandoval, provided during the Days of mobility data on outstanding performances in the Bicycle Master Plan in the Region, being expected to reach 1,100 kilometers of infrastructure have cyclable with an investment of 180 million euros, divided into 10 installments.
The draft forecast for this 2011 set the first installment of 1 million euros.
THE DANGER OF CONTAMINATION "N URBANA
The evolution of modern society and current living habits are being developed in an unsustainable manner, which leads to a worrying fact is that 5 00 000 people die annually from urban pollution and 75 percent of the European population live in cities, as announced in his speech the head of Greater Sustainability processes of Spain Sustainability Observatory (OSE), José Luis de la Cruz Leiva.
But not all bad news as there is an encouraging sign is that in recent years have increased the number of companies registered for the Global Compact and Agenda 21.
The idea is to start a change in education and lifestyles by setting long term goals and promoting the use of public transport.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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