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| It will depart from the Batel slope at 11.00 am | Coinciding with the day on which Óscar was run over two months ago, a Navantia worker walking to work, different associations and groups are preparing a large demonstration to ask the different authorities for more awareness and more investment to improve safety and security.
accessibility of urban and interurban roads to users who walk or go by bike and scooters.Two months have passed since then and unfortunately, nothing has been done to improve the safety of a crosswalk that many people pass through every day.
It is necessary to take measures, such as reducing the speed to 20 km / h and raising it."Although the City Council has started a series of small actions aimed at this end (Signaling of Zone 30, in some streets of the center, partial improvement of the lighting of the Elephants path ...) we believe that it is insufficient.
In addition, as It is always focusing all activity in the urban area, forgetting the neighborhoods and districts and not fulfilling its obligation to make a more friendly city in new infrastructure works.
An example is the new roads of the Rambla Plan.
A few months ago, in a meeting with the responsible municipal technician, we asked him that the maximum speed on that road be 30 km / h and that the zebra crossings be raised, we see with amazement that we have not been listened to, so that we fear that since there is no barrier on the way,Cantón Avenue becomes an urban highway "comments Susana Otón Costa of the MoviliCT for your Health collective."But we not only want to address the City Council with this demonstration.
We have chosen the green area next to the Carlos III wall, at the descent of the Batel slope, to also put a spotlight on the Alfonso XII road that It runs through the port of Cartagena.
We are very concerned that in the new remodeling project (yet another) the real protagonists of mobility are forgotten, that is, the citizens who walk, walk or cycle through that area on a daily basis.
We are very concerned that this project does not include an adequate road (with wide sidewalks and bike lanes) that reaches the Barrio de Santa Lucía and continues to the Hospital of the same name, "explains Loto Fernández Ramila from the MoviliCT for your Health collective."We have been demanding for years an adequate connection, as well as safe bike racks and improvement of the bus line to the Hospital de Santa Lucía, but so far, we have not achieved any results," indicates Eduardo Lucas Muñiz from the Bicue collective."This demonstration has to serve so that the City Council and all the administrations that have competence in mobility issues, give a 180 degree turn in their policies and put in the center, all the users who use the options of walking for travel , go by bike or rollerblades.
It is shameful that access to neighborhoods, as is the case for example in Canteras, have not been improved.
Today there is the same road as 40 years ago, when not all the new developments had been built "says José Ángel Vivancos Román of the Vía Libre Association.There are some new projects on the table, but to carry them out, the proposals of urban groups cannot be omitted.
They are the people who compose them, those who move daily using means other than the automobile.
Therefore, it is very important that they are listened to, that their proposals are collected and included in all the new urban development plans of our city.We want and have the right to a city that is healthier and kinder to people.
Source: MoviliCt por tu Salud
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