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| Placing bike racks in private parking lots, with a photographic contest and a videoconference on micrologistics | The Department of Mobility, together with the Local Police, is placing bike racks in all private and public indoor and outdoor car parks in Lorca to encourage the use of bicycles and offer safe parking for cyclists.
In addition, a photo contest called 'Mobility in times of COVID' and a videoconference with experts in micrologistics focused on Lorca delivery companies are proposed. The Councilor for Transport and Mobility of the Lorca City Council, Irene Jódar, has presented, this morning, the initiatives that will be held in the municipality within the framework of the European Mobility Week, which begins today and will end on September 22 . Irene Jódar explained that "what we intend with the accession of Lorca to this European initiative, with the celebration of various activities, is to highlight the need to carry out a real sustainable mobility.
During the weeks in which the country was Entirely confined, we realized that we could leave the car at home and move around our city on foot or by bicycle.
And now we want that thought to continue and become latent day by day, since in this way we contribute to reducing traffic and emissions pollutants, in addition to the benefits to our health that physical exercise entails on foot or on two wheels. The mayor has listed the activities that will be carried out during this European Mobility Week.
The first is the placement of bicycle racks in the covered and outdoor car parks, both public such as San Vicente, as well as private ones in Lorca such as Poncemar in the area of ??the Bus Station, the Parking Campus Universitario, the Parking Pasarela, the Parking Plaza de Colón, the Parking Lorca Plaza.
During these days, from the Signage section of the Local Police of Lorca these elements are being placed in the previously listed car parks to facilitate and be able to park safely in these facilities to Lorca and visitors who use the bicycle. In addition, the councilor explained that "a photographic contest will be held by the Popular University of Lorca, under the name 'Mobility in times of Covid.' Lorca who want to participate may do so until December 1 and in the next days we will post the bases of the aforementioned contest on the municipal website and on the social networks of the Department of Mobility.
Social networks that have increased with the launch of an official Twitter profile (@MovilidadLorca) ". And, finally, next Monday, September 21, at 5:00 p.m., a videoconference on micrologistics will be held, in which representatives of the different delivery companies of Lorca, as well as representatives of the city's business associations will be present.
del Sol, and members of the Lorca Biciudad association.
"This telematic conference will focus on the sustainable last mile using tricycles and electric vehicles.
We intend to show the experiences in other cities (Murcia, Seville and Barcelona) for the last mile delivery of goods by bicycles and tricycles, in addition to presenting a series of vehicles electricity that can be used for this purpose ", has detailed Jódar Pérez, who added that" this telematic conference is open to anyone interested in attending,that you can do so by requesting it by e-mail movi-lidad@lorca.es ". Jódar Pérez has also stressed that "from the Department of Mobility we are working on future projects such as the one that we will present soon called 'Bicimetro'".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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