While the Department of Infrastructure City Hall of Cartagena welcomed in a press release by placing a "bicycle parking facilities used" in the College and IES Las Salinas (La Manga), from the failed MUNICIPAL LOAN SERVICE BICITY which had the best result disappearance of a large number of bicycles and the total decontrol of lending services offered, the students themselves who daily use the bicycle as transportation demand more security in the stretch of Calle de las Salinas connecting educational buildings to the nearest bike path located on the South Bank Ave.
As declared by the Socialists in the area, the stretch of road linking the South Bank educational buildings, is summarized in about 500 meters from street without bike lanes, with a single sidewalk less than a meter wide, occupied by poles telephone and streetlights that impede access for cyclists and pedestrians including young people who have to choose between circular, in single file, by the bare sidewalk, or go in the company of his friends dodging cars and buses passing along the road and without solar Minimum lighting and lack of something as basic as traffic lights and zebra crossings allowing them to travel insurance.
According to Salvador Martínez, social responsibility, it is time to reclaim the City of Cartagena the necessary investment to develop fully achieve the Calle de las Salinas, located in the nursery area at the entrance of La Manga and provide for safe access both pedestrians and cyclists on this sensitive area and home each day to more than 1500 students.
And it is not acceptable to try to disguise this by placing a pair of bicycle parking in access to buildings.
The Socialists also reported the significant increase in the volume of vehicles (including trucks prohibited) who decide to leave the road The inner sleeve of Las Salinas and not infrequently dangerous generate daily traffic jams on the stretch of school zone to be through access to such road vehicles.
According to Martinez, "from which the council has built the new roundabout, passing vehicles on the road that runs inside Las Salinas, an area with important environmental protection has increased, with consequent damage to the protected habitat and causing the transit of dangerous young people in school catchment area. "
Source: PSOE Cartagena