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| Within these actions, the City Council has modernized the lighting between Barriomar and the rest of the city's neighborhoods to increase the safety of residents | The Councilor for Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration, José Guillén, visited Barriomar this morning to supervise the work to improve public lighting that is being undertaken in this area of ??influence of South Connection. These works are being carried out within the framework of the Murcia Smart City - Smart lighting and Murcia Aire Limpio strategy that advocates in this case to favor the improvement of the environment, visibility and safety of the area and contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the residents of the municipality. This action is framed in the neighborhoods of South Connection, in which the Department of Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration has carried out the installation of 900 smart and LED lights. This modernization of the lighting system will allow a saving of 578,880 euros during the useful life of the installation and will stop emitting 1,700,000 kilos of CO2. In the coming months, work will continue to install new lights in the districts of Nonduermas, Los Dolores and San Pío X and in the neighborhoods of El Infante and El Carmen. "These improvements in districts are carried out thinking about the safety of the neighbors who circulate on the road, we act on roads and sidewalks with little visibility to make them more passable at any time of the day.

The City Council also assumes in this way, its commitment for stopping climate change "has highlighted José Guillén. The lights installed in the last year in the municipality will save more than 5 million euros and will avoid the emission of 18 million kilos of CO2 Thanks to the investment made, with the installation of 9,780 luminaires since 2019, during their useful life, which is 12 years, 5,297,000 euros will be saved, 18 million kilos of CO2 will no longer be emitted and the consumption will stop 37,841,960 kwh. "The Murcia City Council thus assumes its commitment to curbing climate change, improving the environment and the quality of the air we breathe.

Thanks to this technology, consumption and the emission of carbon dioxide are reduced, along with other measures, such as Forest Plan or the Clean Air Strategy ", José Guillén highlighted. These works have been carried out in: Barrio del Progreso, Patiño, Beniaján, Los Dolores, Llano de Brujas, Los Ramos, El Esparragal, Cobatillas, Santo Ángel, El Puntal, Espinardo, El Palmar, Los Garres, La Albatalía, Sangonera La Verde, Corvera, La Murta, Cañada Hermosa, Algezares, Aljucer, La Arboleja, Cabezo de Torres, Puente Tocinos, Guadalupe, Rincón de Seca, La Raya, Puebla de Soto and Monteagudo, among other districts, in addition to the urban area of ??Murcia . Barriomar, territory of Murcia South Connection The Murcia South Connection project will mean the return to Murcia of an urban area of ??more than 200,000 m2, where green spaces and pedestrian areas will be the main protagonists. In the design of the actions to be developed, the more than 70,000 residents who live in the districts and neighborhoods where these actions are going to take place will have a voice, such as: Los Dolores, El Infante, the Carmen neighborhood, Santiago el Mayor, el neighborhood of Progreso, San Pío X, Nonduermas, Patiño and Barriomar. Currently, the participatory process of the project is taking place.

Municipal technicians are holding working meetings with more than 150 representative groups from the southern part of the municipality with the aim of gathering ideas and proposals that will later be evaluated by the competent technicians. In parallel, the placement of more than 300 ballot boxes by businesses and establishments in the southern districts and neighborhoods is allowing weekly contributions to be collected directly from citizens by filling in forms. In addition, the Artillery Barracks this week hosted an Expert Forum that had the participation of some of the most influential architects on the national and international scene, such as Ibón Areso, promoter of Ría 2000 Bilbao, Francisco Burgos, head of Madrid Río, Enrique Bardají, from Mahou-Calderón, and José María Ezquiaga, from Madrid Centro.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia