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The councilor of the Municipal Socialist Group, Juan Vicente Larrosa, asked Sunday the Ballesta government "why it is possible to reduce the lanes destined for traffic in the rounds of the city to make bike lanes and better sidewalks, and it is not possible to do The same in the Southern Coast?

Larrosa recalled that the Socialist Party has been demanding for years that the stretch of Southern Coast, with six lanes in total, without sidewalks and with a single bike lane, is suitable to allow the conditioning of sidewalks and bike lanes in both directions, Four lanes for traffic.

"If in the rounds, with the level of traffic that they support, it is possible to reduce the number of lanes to allow cyclists and pedestrians to circulate with greater security, it is also possible to carry out a similar action in the Southern Coast."

The Socialist mayor has lamented that, despite the numerous requests from the Socialist Group in this regard and the motions unanimously approved at the municipal councils affected, "the PP governments in the City of Murcia have not wanted to solve the problem of Coastal South, hiding in an urban development that is yet to come but of which nothing is known. "

"The reality is that the neighbors and neighbors of the Southern Coast must walk through it on foot invading the only bike lane there is, since there are no sidewalks, and cyclists have problems to move safely. Sidewalks is particularly dangerous in accesses such as the Institute of Secondary Education Alquibla, "said the councilman, who added that" between Algezares and Santo Ángel there is no sidewalk. "

Larrosa has indicated that "we can not wait for urban development that can take years to complete, if it does. We have to make decisions that solve the insecurity of pedestrians and cyclists in the area, just as it is going to Do in the rounds without major problem ".

"What we propose is what we have already defended so many times before: that two of the lanes of the South Coast become bike lanes and the current bike lane becomes a sidewalk, which is the function it currently fulfills Due to the lack of space for this, "concluded Larrosa.

Source: PSOE Murcia