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Alicia Morales said that "all the money that has been spent these years to make ineffective campaigns and advertising should be invested in a sustainable and comprehensive plan of mobility. That would be the real prize for Murcia"

MURCIA NOW recalled today the mayor José Ballesta that "urban and sustainable mobility is not a matter of just one week," referring to the award received by the City Council in Brussels by the activities held in the Mobility Week.

"We would like this award was a strong impetus to make real sustainable mobility in our town, beyond advertising weeks," said the councilor and spokesman, Alicia Morales.

According to the mayor, "the reality of mobility in our town is well known to the neighbors, who are pedestrians and bicycle users and public transport. A town with no sidewalks in many districts, with expensive public transport and ineffective, with a tram which costs 10 million euros a year, without bike lanes ... ".

Morales recalled that, in short, "Murcia are still waiting for a plan of sustainable and integrated mobility. All the money that has been spent these years to make some effective campaigns and publicity should have been invested in that plan. That would be the real prize for Murcia. "

Councilwoman further that "many of the measures that has been awarded Murcia have not been executed or only held during Mobility Week, for example, stands bikes on the bus" highlights.

Similarly, from now Murcia "evaluation of other measures that have been announced with great fanfare but know their degree of implementation or their effectiveness, such as areas 30 or traffic calming, or sharing in the lane it is requested Gran Via bikes with buses and taxis, a move that was also very protested by cyclists and bus drivers. "

In this line, now Murcia presented today at the Observatory of the Bicycle its proposals for the draft bike lanes, focusing mainly on two aspects: a clear timetable of when to make this plan is set and what budget account so that the project does not run again only on paper (the Director of the bike Plan is 2010 and we are in 2016) and to clarify how it planned intermodality and the relationship of bicycles with public transport.

Morales laments that "the propaganda mood of the PP in this matter is evident in the way they have had to communicate the prize, as they have ensured that Murcia has been imposed on 1,873 cities, when in fact that figure corresponds to the towns that held the Mobility week. At the award chose 53 cities, a figure that the PP did not need to manipulate so crudely. "

Source: Ahora Murcia