With this important step, the support and recognition of the project of the Congress of Deputies is achieved |
The Councilor for Modernization of Administration and Urban Development, José Guillen, has been present today at the Committee on Agriculture, Food and Environment held at the Congress of Deputies to support the proposal and defend the importance of the Murcia project River for the city.
A commission that has approved to urge the Government of the nation to provide support and guarantee the necessary collaboration to promote the different actions for the recovery and social and environmental integration of the Segura River.
This work may be established through a coordination and monitoring body of which the State Administration and the City Council are part.
"From the Government Team we thank this commission for the promotion and defense of this Proposition No of Law that guarantees the Government's support for this project, which involves an ambitious operation to regenerate the river environment", José Guillen celebrated after learning the news .
Thus, "the support achieved today in the Congress of Deputies joins the work done in recent months, achieving the collaboration of the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura, Hacienda Board, Universities, Professional Associations, social and environmental groups, professionals and experts. "
A visit that has also served for the Councilor for Modernization of the Administration and Urban Development to inform the national deputies of the state of development of some of these projects, such as the execution of the garden? Of the Four Stones and the hiring of the Riverwalk and of the Alameda del Malecón, in addition to the imminent start-up of the new lighting in the urban section.
We must remember that "the Murcia River project bases its logic on the maintenance and care of the Segura as it passes through the city and has among its objectives to enhance the relationship of the citizen with his River, origin of the city and its garden, and as Therefore, it is essential to have the backing of the central government, which recognizes the effort of the actions we are taking to recover this natural enclave, "said the councilor.
Murcia River Project
The Murcia River project is one of the great bets of the government team of José Ballesta for the municipality of Murcia.
Among the programmed actions include landscape and natural recovery plans of the channel as it passes through the municipality, the recovery of meanders, parks and gardens, the natural adaptation of the channel, new lighting and access roads, the launch of the bike lane or the integration of cultural spaces.
The initiatives presented affect the 27 km of riverbed that runs through the municipality of Murcia, with the Segura River being the axis around which urban and peri-urban activities are developed, which must be connected transversally with the territory.
Among them are:
* Peri-urban actions:
- Project of recovery and integration of meanders of the river.
- Interpretation Center of the Contraparada.
* Performances in urban area:
- Alameda de las Cuatro Piedras.
- Alameda del Malecón.
- New access to the Segura river.
- River walk in the Segura river.
- Adaptation of the right mota of the river.
- Plantation of plant species on the left bank of the river.
- Urban Park.
- Walk on Teniente Flomesta Avenue
- East park.
- West park.
"The City of Murcia assumes the leadership and coordination of the Murcia River project with the aim of converting the Segura River into a friendly space that welcomes the life of Murcia, a river of tradition and innovation for the city to which it gives meaning" , the councilor has concluded.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia