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| José Ballesta: "Fostering sustainable and healthy mobility habits, especially among the youngest, is one of the objectives of the conference that takes place for this purpose week, prioritizing journeys on foot and by bicycle "| Sustainable mobility will conquer Gran Vía tomorrow with activities for the whole family, in a day in which this avenue will be closed to traffic and will become a pedestrian axis, where different workshops will be held focused on the bicycle - to learn how to repair it and circulate with it, to personalize it, etc.
-, road safety circuits and activities to test electric scooters, among others.
The activities will take place from 10 am to 2 pm, in a healthy environment with mini gardens and green rest areas."Fostering sustainable and healthy mobility habits, especially among the youngest, is one of the objectives of the sessions that take place this weekend, prioritizing journeys on foot, with the closure of the Gran Via, and by bicycle, to through family activities, promoting clean mobility in our municipality, ”said José Ballesta, who will attend the conference together with the Councilor for Sustainable Mobility and Youth, Rebeca Pérez, and the Councilor for Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration, José Guillén .All the workshops are framed within the European Mobility Week, “an initiative that responds to one of the strategic lines that guide the actions of the Murcia City Council: Sustainable Mobility, through programs that prioritize travel by bicycle, promoting clean mobility in our municipality ”, explained the Murcian councilor.It should be noted that each kilometer traveled by bicycle, instead of using the car, avoids the emission into the atmosphere of about 300 grams of CO2.Activities following all safety and hygiene measuresThe activities will be carried out following the measures established in the health protocol, with limited capacity, safety distance, exhaustive cleaning and the mandatory use of masks.
Those interested can find the complete schedule of the European Mobility Week at the link https://movilidad.murcia.es/cms/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/programa-semana-movilidad-ok.pdf.Today, the School of Mobility, among other proposalsMurcia will also host different initiatives this morning, which are:-Paseorama.
Thanks to new technologies, it will allow attendees to test the benefits of the bicycle and 'travel' with this means of transport to different enclaves of the municipality.
From 10:00 a.m.
to 2:00 p.m.
and from 5:00 p.m.
to 8:00 p.m., in the Plaza de Santo Domingo.-Workshop Try it yourself, workshop with bicycles and electric scooters.
In San Antolín.
From 10:00 a.m.
to 2:00 p.m.-Mobility School.
Activity aimed at children and young people, with activities and circuits: Local Police will be present with a road safety education circuit, the Bicycle Office will teach how to repair and maintain bicycles in good condition, in another space the little ones will be able to personalize their bicycles, there will be talks on how to learn to ride a bicycle and 'photo call'.
In the Garden of the Malecón.
From 10:00 a.m.
to 2:00 p.m.
and from 5:00 p.m.
to 7:00 p.m.-Botanical Tourism.
Walk through the trees of Murcia: anecdotes, curiosities and legends.
In Díez de Revenga square.
At 6:30 p.m.
For this activity, prior registration is essential through the link on the web mobility.murcia.es., As well as complying with the prevention measures indicated in the form.Tomorrow's activities, during the closure of Gran VíaLikewise, tomorrow's session will run with the following proposals:-Closure of the Gran Via.
Bicycle School, with all the activities of the previous day and children's entertainment.
Hours: 10 hours.-Paseorama.
In the Plaza de Santo Domingo.
From 10:00 a.m.
to 2:00 p.m.
and from 5:00 p.m.
to 8:00 p.m.-Workshop 'Try it yourself', with bicycles and electric scooters.
In the Plaza Santa Eulalia.
At 10:30 am.-Botanical Tourism: The plants of the Huerta de Murcia seen from a bicycle.
On the Malecón.
At 6:30 p.m.
For this activity, prior registration is essential through the link on the web mobility.murcia.es., As well as complying with the prevention measures indicated in the form.The new 'Pedalea por Murcia' GuideSpecifically, the European Mobility Week started on Wednesday September 16 and will run until the 26th, with a hundred activities in Murcia and its districts, among which the 'Day without cars' stands out - Murcians will be able to use Public transport, tram and urban buses are free of charge, on September 22, the day in which Gran Vía will be closed to traffic.Yesterday, in addition, the Murcian councilor presented yesterday the new guide 'Pedalea por Murcia', which includes 7 new urban routes to travel by bicycle, which allow you to know Murcia from different perspectives, such as art, history and architecture, along with length of a total of 25.5 kilometers.The new guide shows museums, exhibition halls, emblematic squares, gardens and unique buildings, among other places of interest.New Mobility ProjectThe new Mobility Project of the municipality is articulated in five axes: Collective transport, with a new transport model that will be tendered at the beginning of the year; Personal mobility, with the development of pilot projects for electric bikes and scooters that will be ready by the end of 2020; Dissuasive car parks, which Murcians will be able to release in early 2021; New pedestrian areas, such as San Nicolás, at the end of the year, and Santa Eulalia, a project that is already being worked on; and zones of low emissions and traffic calming, with delimited and delimited areas of restricted access for the mitigation of emissions, which will be established by the end of 2020.With this Project, “we guarantee the mobility needs of each and every one of the citizens while preserving territorial and social equity, and we contribute to the improvement of environmental factors, from an urban perspective, and to the health of citizens by reducing emissions of greenhouse gas effects and promoting healthy and sustainable mobility habits ”, said the Murcian councilor.600 bicycles and 117 km of tracksThe municipality of Murcia has 117 kilometers of cycle paths, 600 rental bicycles, 60 bicycle loan stations and 3,156 fork parking spaces, which have been implemented through the City Council's Mobility Plan, whose objective is to prioritize journeys on foot, by bicycle or by public transport, promoting sustainable and clean mobility.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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