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Environmentalists believe that the low activity of the City reflects their true lack of awareness on environment and health, again contradicting the facts to the powerful machinery of green marketing.
Ecologists in Action this week showed his surprise to find that the city of Murcia is content with the less ambitious and effective system of rental bikes, demonstrating once again his lack of credibility in the promotion of cycling in the municipality, while appear with greater frequency of air pollution problems related to increased motor traffic, and forgets his speech "Actions against Climate Change."
According to environmentalists, "the council's green speech long ago ceased to be credible because their actions contradict the good words of the press conferences and press releases."
An example, only one of many that could provide the path that the council has weighed out with the bicycle rental system, which began as a very ambitious project, and ended up being a patch of pure marketing.
Suffice it to recall a statement of the City of Murcia, on April 1, 2009, in announcing the end of that year the implementation of a public bicycle rental auto similar to those already available to cities like Seville and Barcelona.
This system, proposed by the Master Plan for the use of bicycles in Murcia, would have several automatic parking of bicycles in the areas of greatest demand for the city for anyone to use, being at the end of the day many people use the same bike, getting an acceptable investment factor-effectiveness, visibility.
However, the lack of real ambition of the consistory, as reflected in the infrapresupuesto for that purpose, eventually transforming good news in a bad reality, finally implemented in 2010 a bike rental system that is far from being a "Public Bike System "among other reasons because:
1.
Each bike only benefits one person.
After a day every bike purchased by the City with taxes of its inhabitants, only benefits a person, if not in use and is parked at home.
Faced with several options, chose the less profitable, despite the current crisis.
2.
The rent is not subject to the actual use made of the bicycle, or even the applicant's financial situation: bike has been given to the first people that requested it, while supplies last (indeed very few given that their 441,345 inhabitants (INE 2010) is the 7 th municipality of Spain in population).
3.
The bike hire such spend most of the time parked and no one uses them.
4.
To rent is to go to a store during business hours.
This makes a person at the train station or bus can not have a bike to move to the center, for example.
5.
To be rented at commercial establishments and be used by one person, the system has a low profile, so it performs well even with the pedagogical work and attractive to new users.
Therefore, Ecologists in Action has asked the Mayor House to take seriously the environment of the municipality and the welfare of its inhabitants, changing the course of the disastrous environmental policies and current mobility, to achieve a truly livable city, and restore the quality of life has deteriorated in recent years.
Source: Ecologistas en Acción
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