The work table of the Local Agenda 21 are met yesterday under the chairmanship of Councillor for Sustainable Development, Isaiah Camarzana to continue work in developing an Action Plan that defines the basic guidelines to be put into practice in mobility sustainable for the city of Cartagena, as is the case for promoting cycling and give preference to the figure of the pedestrian.
During the day there were two of the documents that are collected more than 530 actions that have been proposed during the whole process of participation by individual members of the board, which are the drafts of the Citizens' Pact for Sustainable Mobility and Strategic Lines of Action on Sustainable Mobility.
The Citizens' Pact provides sixteen general objectives are:
Convert to a pedestrian in the first star of the mobility in Cartagena.
Encourage the use of public transport over private.
Promote the use of the bicycle.
Arrange parking in a manner consistent with sustainable mobility.
Making the distribution of goods and products in Cartagena is compatible with sustainable mobility.
Cartagena make a city safe and comfortable for users of different transport systems.
Encourage intermodality.
Cartagena make a healthy city and committed to global environmental problems.
Improve information and training of citizens in relation to mobility.
Reduce inequality in mobility in the city of Cartagena.
Promoting initiatives and sustainable mobility plans in the field of transportation to work.
Promoting appropriate legislation.
Take advantage of existing technological advances to improve the mobility system and traffic control in Cartagena.
Incorporate urban planning principles of sustainable mobility.
Encourage citizen participation in designing policies and actions for sustainable mobility.
Create a framework for the promotion and financial support for citizens' initiatives for sustainable mobility business in Cartagena.
For its part, the strategies around which they have organized the different proposals for action are:
Empowering citizens in relation to mobility.
Promote mobility on foot in the city of Cartagena.
Enhance bicycle mobility.
Promote mobility in public transport in the municipality.
Promote the reasonable use of private vehicles in the municipality.
Promote alternative means of sustainable mobility.
Improve municipal management in sustainable mobility issues.
Education, information and awareness in relation to sustainable mobility.
Promoting sustainable mobility generators of large movements of people and goods.
Improvement of infrastructure for the mobility and accessibility conditions in the municipality.
Reduce the environmental impact of road traffic.
Urban planning and mobility.
Improve road safety conditions in the municipality of Cartagena.
Both documents, Covenant and Strategy, will be analyzed during the coming weeks by the municipal technical areas related to the proposed actions, in order to verify the technical feasibility, quantify the economic, social and environmental, to estimate costs economic, make a proposal for prioritizing and organizing time, and identify all institutions, organizations and businesses that have to intervene with the City in developing them.
The event was attended by more than thirty people representing different institutions, organizations and businesses that are directly or indirectly to the area of mobility (Centro Comercial Abierto, COEC, Public Transport Authority, Energy Technology Center and the Middle Environment, Association Via Libre Cartagena, General Directorate of Traffic, Cartagena Chamber of Commerce, Business Association Cabezo Beaza Industrial Estate, AMFUCC, ONCE, Cartagena Port Authority, Association of Housewives, Consumers and Users of Cartagena, Astus Agency Energy Management in the Region of Murcia, REPSOL, Valley Business Association Escombreras UPCT, ALSA, local police in Cartagena, Ministry of Agriculture and Water, CCOO, UGT, Federation of Neighbourhood Associations of Cartagena and County Federation of Parents' Associations, Municipal Town Planning Cartagena and several councils of the City of Cartagena).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena