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The Municipal Socialist Group reproaches Ballesta that the municipality does not have enough mobility options in the face of Covid-19.
"The frequencies in public transport are insufficient and we have fewer bike lanes than in most large cities in Spain, how do we move?", Asks Esther Nevado, Socialist councilor. The Municipal Socialist Group has been warning since May of the transport and mobility problems that would be created in the municipality at the arrival of September.
Councilor Juan Vicente Larrosa has denounced the chaos of public transport on multiple occasions.
For her part, Esther Nevado, socialist councilor, presented a motion to the May plenary session proposing the creation of provisional bike lanes to alleviate the problems that would be created due to the lack of public transport, "to anticipate the disaster that September could entail, the return to school and to work "explains the councilor. "But neither one thing nor the other.
The mayor of our municipality continues to be more concerned with covering up his ineffectiveness with photos and headlines than with solving the problems of his neighbors.
September has finally arrived and Murcians still have no options to move around their city other than their own vehicle, if they have one ", criticizes Esther Nevado. "The proposal that we took to the plenary session in May was very simple: create cycle lanes so that bicycles were a real alternative to move around the municipality.
Since social distancing was going to limit the capacity of public transport, we needed to offer other options to the citizens of Murcia ", explains Nevado.
"The frequencies of the public buses have not recovered at any time, the capacity limitations and the fear of contagion are creating serious problems, but Ballesta and his team are still inoperative, they do not bother to understand how this hinders the life of his neighbors ", laments Juan Vicente Larrosa.
"In the end it forces people to use a private vehicle and that translates into more traffic, the center collapsing, more noise, more pollution ..."Larrosa complains. "Today we knew the data that only 5% of Murcians use the bicycle to move around the municipality.
We are not surprised.
Murcia is not a city in which the bicycle occupies a predominant place in what it has to do with mobility Despite the good weather and the 125 kilometers of bike lanes that our mayor likes to show off so much about, people still don't see the bike as a way of getting around.
Does Ballesta know why this happens? Because the bike lanes are not connected, many of the roads do not go anywhere, they force you to constantly get on and off the bike, they go through complicated crossings where it is not easy to know who has priority ...
In short, they do not meet the basic requirements of an urban planning suitable to the bicycle ", explains Nevado. "The bike lanes have to fulfill a single requirement: to be safe", argues Juan Vicente Larrosa.
Nevado adds: "The best way to promote the use of the bicycle is precisely to make people feel safe using it, creating safe infrastructures is the first step to promote the culture of cycling." "It has been a missed opportunity that other cities have taken advantage of, not only to adapt to the new situation, but to rethink their mobility model and improve it.
But this requires management capacity and innovation and our Government team has not wanted to bet this way, "protests Nevado. "The only thing that Ballesta has done in terms of mobility has been to cover its ineffectiveness and incompetence with unambitious projects that will not have a life beyond the announcement, such as the Recycle Project", denounces the socialist mayor.
"There is no project, they are crappy, they do not have high-mindedness, they do not pay attention to what other Spanish cities are doing.
So it is impossible to change anything," concludes the councilor.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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