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The number of buses on the Gran Vía will be reduced by 80,000 vehicles a year and reordered up to 24 lines in the City
Citizens will evaluate proposals and make suggestions from next week on the web www.muevetemurcia.es
A revolutionary new model of urban transport for the XXI century.
This is the goal it set a year ago the new Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan of Murcia (Move Plan), which aims to integrate urban development and territorial mobility to facilitate the accessibility of citizens to its activities with the least impact environmental and safely as possible.
And now, on schedule announced, the first results are known.
The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, this morning the proposals and conclusions of an extensive study that is the most complete radiography of public and private transport of all time, their wants and needs and preferences and concerns users.
This diagnosis, made in recent months, portrays the current situation to the millimeter, identifying hot spots of traffic, the gauging of the parking, routes, stops and bus service quality, the needs of pedestrians, inventory and needs loading and unloading or the preferences of users, merchants and other social actors.
Based on data from the Municipality of Murcia citizens now proposes possible solutions and initiatives.
At the meeting held in the Plenary Hall of the City of Murcia attended by representatives from trade associations, employers, consumers, public parks, buses, professional associations, governments and universities, among others.
These are the proposals that have been discussed and we now spend on public display so that all citizens can assess them.
On the other hand, may also participate actively in the Plan by sending their suggestions and concerns to the website www.muevetemurcia.es.
Basic guidelines
The main objectives of the Mobility Plan are:
Recovery measures and citizen urban quality.
Increased pedestrian network and modal shift.
Reorganization measures and traffic control.
Management and regulatory measures for private car parking.
Empowerment measures of public transport.
Rearrangement of lines and frequencies.
Measures to improve mobility of persons with disabilities.
Measures to improve mobility of goods.
Measures to improve environmental quality and energy savings.
These general objectives are realized now in the following initiatives:
Prioritizing transportation corridors structuring and streamlining the system, eliminating duplication with tours of the tram lines.
Bus lines connect the centers with transport interchanges.
Improvement of frequencies, shortening the length of the lines and promoting transfers.
Implementation of a mesh of transport to ensure full coverage.
Basic tram network.
It is planned tram network core consists of the following lines:
Line 1: Plaza Circular-Malls-public and private universities.
Entry into service: 2011.
Line 2: Plaza Circular, El Carmen, El Palmar and Industrial Park West.
To implement between 2014 and 2018.
Line 3: The Carmen-Beniaján-Torreagüera "The Ramos.
To implement from 2018.
Line 4: The Carmen-Sangonera la Seca Raceway.
To implement from 2018.
The express bus line Carmen-Plaza Circular.
From 2011 to operate an express line clean buses, with a frequency of 4 minutes, will link the Floridablanca Garden and Plaza Circular.
In 2014 this line is replaced with the Line 2 tram.
All bus routes will be the last stop South Garden Floridablanca, where travelers can make a transfer to the express line.
Similarly, the Northern Bus Lines completed its path in the Plaza Circular or Espinardo exchanger.
Consequence: The movement of buses in the Gran Vía will be reduced next year from the 278,602 trips made in 2009 by conventional vehicles to 135,534, representing a decrease of 51.4%.
Transport interchanges.
Exchangers serve to link and coordinate the various public transport, connecting bus lines, tram lines and cycle tracks routes.
The proposed interchanges are:
Short term:
Circular Square exchanger, connected to Line 1 of the tram.
North interchange: in Avenida Juan Carlos I, Espinardo.
Jardín de Floridablanca exchanger: Linked to the new express line.
Medium term:
Station El Carmen: He will replace Floridablanca exchanger.
Parking Exchange.
Are sharing the parking spaces will be possible to park private vehicles at different points of the edges of the city, so that citizens can use public transport, thus promoting intermodality.
There are three areas of action envisaged.
Access Avenida Juan Carlos I-Espinardo: Parking will be linked to the transport interchange, with a capacity of 275 vehicles and connected to Line 1 of the tram, as well as lines 41, 44, 49, 52 bus.
Access Avenida Juan de Borbon-Churra: With a capacity of 204 beds will be connected to the tram line 1 and lines 10 and 44 buses.
Back Víctor Villegas Auditorium: Connected to 4 bus line, this will have 520 parking spaces.
Simplifying the fee structure.
The Plan proposes to deepen proposals for users paying a single bill, to make your trip using the means of transport which they wish (bus and tram).
Traffic calmed areas.
The traffic calmed areas will be located in the center of the city and its immediate extensions.
These are areas where the goal is to reduce traffic by setting up short-term the following actions:
Speed limits to 30 km / hr.
Introduction of speed bumps to prevent the increase in vehicle speed and provide continuity to the pedestrian and sidewalk crossings.
Narrowing of the roadway to enhance the capacity of the pavements and reduce vehicle speeds.
Signaling restricted areas or pedestrian areas.
Major attractions of citizens.
Move Plan also provides for joint action in those areas to attract citizens, among which are the Espinardo Campus and Los Jeronimos, shopping centers North, hospitals, railway station or industrial estates.
Increased public transport.
These measures will allow a change in the public transport system, which will go from 8.8% now to 19% in 2014, 25% in 2018 and 33% in 2022.
By contrast, the use of private cars is currently 52.4% drop to 40% in 2014, 33% in 2018 and 25% in 2022.
Environmental improvement.
The initiatives planned major objective is to improve and increase public transport system, improving the quality of life of citizens of Murcia and improving the environmental situation through a significant reduction in CO2 emissions, traffic congestion and noise pollution and vibration.
Within deadlines
The first phase of the Move Plan included the establishment of the Bureau of Mobility, which consists of traders, consumers, unions, professional associations, disabled people, representatives of the car parks, buses, taxis, hotels and other sectors.
This first phase is now concluded with the presentation of a diagnostic analysis of the companies awarded the Plan-Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas and Taryet, and initiatives to be developed.
The second phase will be devoted to defining the strategic framework that sets out the objectives of the plan and in which the council has set, with the winner of this work, objectives and priorities.
The third stage will involve the development of the operational proposals, and the fourth, in forecasting the future, strategies, regulatory and policy measures will be developed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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