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Councilman Enrique Ayuso, who calls for more routes for cyclists who are segregated from motorized traffic, lacks an adequate criterion for sustainable mobility and denounces the poor condition of these lanes, with potholes, painted signs that almost you do not see and vegetation invading them

The Municipal Socialist Group will take to the plenary next Thursday a motion to study in the Observatory of the Bicycle the basic criteria that should define the design and construction of the bike lanes of the municipality and also so that, once approved criteria, apply to "create a coherent and uniform system" and that "encourage the use of the bike as a means of transport".

This is what the councilor Enrique Ayuso tells us, who is the one who will defend the proposal.

"We will try that the new lanes are built under an adequate and unique design and that the current ones adapt progressively to the norm", points the mayor of the PSOE.

Ayuso lacks a common pattern that, with clarity, guides the steps of the City Council in terms of sustainable mobility is concerned and this is something appreciable at first glance.

"The diversity among the paper mills, the lampposts, the banks, the tourist signs, the sidewalks ... are examples of the lack of interest on the part of the most recent municipal administrations to have a model that represents Murcia and one of the infrastructures in the lack of unification is more remarkable is that which characterizes our few bike lanes extended by the municipality.It is a situation that has greater importance because the lack of aesthetic unity, we have to add the risk that is for all and all (whether we are users, pedestrians or drivers of motor vehicles) that for this lack of identity could be more easily involved in an accident ", explains the PSOE councilor, who exemplifies what he says and blames it for lack of proper maintenance .

"The road is in poor condition and potholes proliferate, many of the signs painted on the pavement can hardly be seen, the vegetation that grows around the rails invades the space of the cyclists ...", he says.

On the other hand, there is a lack of a unified criterion regarding the type of surface on which these lanes are located -walkway or sidewalk- and this is also observed in the construction material -asphalt, cement, slab, earth-, in the width- from less than one meter to more than three-, in the color of the lanes and horizontal signs and in the sample of symbols used on the ground.

To this we must add the multiple possibilities of the materials that limit them - curb, high pivots, flat pivots, metal plates, painted stripe.

Ayuso, who affirms that there should be more cycle lanes instead of cycle streets, will take advantage of the motion to recall the need to favor the construction of those segregated lanes of motorized traffic and thus bet for the safety of the cyclist and, consequently, promote the use of the bicycle for what it means to benefit everyone by reducing pollution and promoting coexistence.

Source: PSOE Murcia