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The LorcaBiciudad Association, which has already expressed and reasoned repeatedly reservations and opposition to works being carried out on the road to Granada, presented this week a letter to the mayor, Francisco Jodar, in which he asked for a copy of the study Traffic done in Lorca and also that Local Agenda 21 is used for the purpose it was created and that is simply to explain to citizens urban projects affecting the city and listen in a global forum, as it should be a Agenda21 enhanced, the views and proposals of citizens.
And the opportunity was lost when the slums of La Viña, San José and Alfonso X El Sabio, experience is supposed to be the style of planning the future of the rest of the city were designed.
Also with the reform of San Diego.
And neither informed of important reform would suffer the Granada Road.
For these reasons we do not want that most citizens have always learned us by the media of these reforms, there comoAgenda21Local forums, which are appropriate to design among all the Lorca future.
Especially in proceedings that concern not only affected neighbors.
In this regard, we make the following considerations:
-To Get the traffic flow in Lorca, as many cities are making reference, the only effective solution is to discourage non-residents from abuse of the car in the city, providing alternative mobility solutions (public transport and non-motorized modes) .
Not share any expansion of road traffic in Lorca for polluting private vehicles when all cities are faced with targets for 2020, the reduction of CO2 by their increasingly known consequences on the health of individuals and not are being adequately explained to the public by the authorities, despite the reference data and studies of the World Health Organization, which stands at more than 25,000 premature deaths deaths in Spain due to pollution.
The draft Plan to Improve Air Quality (1), which itself was presented in Lorca on September 3, 2014, also recommends reducing motorized traffic in Lorca and numerous corrective measures, even without a budget, and could be applying.
'We seem to give the Granada Road range "backbone traffic Axis Lorca", as have the Minister of Public Works and the Mayor of Lorca, makes no sense, when located at one end of the city and occupies only 5% of longitudinal road that runs through the urban case.
Not share the bike paths made at the expense of sidewalks, and therefore, if we had been consulted, would never have recommended a bike lane on one side of a wide avenue renovated, which also had plenty of room for a sidewalk that not only serve to move, but as neighborhood recreational areas, with appropriate street furniture, public pedestal to prevent tripping, facility for the disabled, prams ... All these details, which often are seen only when they enjoy, are those which have been more affected category slums and additional shops in the area life, the pull effect they have.
-The Bike lanes should be integrated, whenever possible, with traffic and following his leadership, because they are safer, logical and comfortable for all users: cyclists, motorists, pedestrians ...
We'd like to know if these macro road for cars, no boulevards or quality spaces for residents, will be the keynote of the following actions in other neighborhoods as Alameda de Cervantes, Avenida Juan Carlos I, Jerome Santa Fe ...
-Solicitaremos A meeting with the mayor to personally explain why LorcaBiciudad not recommend the bike lane highway designed in Granada, as we have been expressed in various press releases, statements published in www.lorcabiciudad.es and Local Agenda 21.
We think it essential that all politicians begin to understand and convey to the public the need to use the car only the essentials and especially the city center.
We believe it essential to speak of a quality public transport, hitherto almost never mentioned.
Where were those intelligent traffic lights, according to the presentation to the media, would open the drivers of the buses in its path ?.
How long these buses leave every boot with a black smog ?.
We think it essential that talk of a new Model City, citizens crave when they are invited to reflect, as in the Days of Participation "Decide the future landscape of your city" (October-November 2014).
They all participants advocated a more humane and less motorized, for health, housing, security, tourism, economy ... greenest city and less gray We are awaiting the results of those days framed in a Quality Plan Cityscape of Lorca, of neither has never spoken in Agenda 21.
We think it essential that from all areas of the City of Lorca, no commitments to forget sustainability and the environment (2), both spreading messages for, and execution of works and the necessary information and citizen participation, to achieve understanding and cooperation of neighbors and especially the achievement of objectives that benefit all residents of the municipality.
Source: LorcaBiciudad
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