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(20/09/2019)

for health and safety, walk, skate and pedal]

Under the motto "For health and safety, walk, skate and pedal", we end our Bike Week with a Bicifestion in a festive and vindictive plan before a Town Hall that with a Department called Sustainable Mobility, does not include in its agenda the European Day without Cars, celebrated on the same day as the demonstration.

The demonstration will depart from Cardinal Belluga at 11 am and will end at Alfonso X promenade on September 22, European Day without Cars.

More than twenty groups join the call.

It has been a week full of activities organized by the Murcia association in Bici, which in the framework of the European Mobility Week has celebrated its XIII Bike Week betting on the motto: "for health and safety, walk, skate and pedal ".

We are not referring only to the protection that the cyclist, skater or pedestrian should do against a larger vehicle, it is the fact that on the average that space is generated for means of displacement with human traction, our city becomes safer and healthy.

Wednesday began with a self-managed workshop in the Urban Garden of Santa Eulalia to learn how to repair the simple mechanics of the bike.

On Friday we had a docle appointment with the Parking Day in Alameda de Colón, next to the Floridablanca garden, an event in which citizens of all ages took parking lots to claim more public spaces for pedestrians.

Subsequently, the documentary "On wheels: the dream of the car" was screened at the Regional Film Library, with the aim of promoting citizen reflection on our way of moving.

After the screening, a debate took place with the Director of the documentary, Oscar Clemente and the journalist Mónica Rubio, a biologist. On Saturday, a two-cycle tour through the Barrio del Carmen and Puente Tocinos encouraged residents of Murcia and surrounding areas to move in a sustainable way by different local shops, enjoying our gastronomy.

During the bicifestation, which will depart from Cardinal Belluga at 11 am, the awards granted by Murcia every year to Bici will be given to people and institutions of the municipality.

This year the Ring Ring award goes to Vistabella's AAVV for being one of the most combatant in the city, the Lorena Laos Bi-citizen of the year for defending her cycle as a means of transportation before a fine that did not proceed as she could prove, the Bicifamilia went to the Sánchez Castejón family for his career in the use of the bike.

The prize prick went to the former Councilor for Traffic of the City of Murcia Doña María Dolores Sánchez for her negligence in the case of the one affected by the fine to Lorena Laos.

The Bicifestation will end at the Alfonso X El Sabio promenade, where you can see the exhibition of the photographic contest and the activities organized by the Extinction Rebellion, Mothers for Climate and Zero Waste.

The route of the demonstration comes to represent that in neighborhoods of the city center spaces with restrictions to private motor vehicles must be created.

It is in the ring that surrounds these neighborhoods where segregated bike lanes must be created, for receiving too much volume of motorized traffic.

To this measure, direct communication with the districts must be included.

The association recalls that of what was announced in the 2017 2019 plan, only half have been executed in terms of carrying out segregated bike lanes, a Mobility Ordinance that they announced in December and have not called a participation table again, few measures by protocol of high pollution and a councilor of Sustainable Mobility that does not make room in his agenda to celebrate this week.

This leads us to have reasons for the demonstration and demand the Declaration of the State of Climate Emergency to which we join dozens of associations in the Week for Climate.

From the Murcia association in Bici, the support in the convening of the Bicifestation of more than twenty groups between neighborhood associations and those linked to Sustainable Mobility, the Environment and Neighborhood Associations is appreciated.

Murcia by Bike understands Bike Week as an opportunity to rethink the mobility model of our city and to express to our leaders the need to bet firmly on a friendly city.

They hope to close this week with the massive participation of skates and bicycles during the route that will end at Alfonso X promenade, where pedestrians can join.

There will be read the manifesto of this year, with the title healthy mobility is not an option.

Source: Agencias

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