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Mayor House, president of the Spanish Network of Cities for Bicycle, spoke today at the World Congress to be held in Nice.
The cities that have a public rental system are multiplied by four.
In the case of Spain, 197 municipalities including Murcia? Currently have this service.
Using bicycle to go to work has increased from 6.8% in 2008 to 11.9% in 2011, while its use in everyday use increased from 17.4% to 30.3%.
This emerges from a study of the DGT has been referred to the Mayor of Murcia and RCxB president, Miguel Angel House, speaking at the World Congress of the bike that develops in Nice.
The same has also highlighted that, according to the results of the Fourth Annual Bike Barometer 2011, 87.5% of the Spanish population knows cycling, although only 40.3% use it with some frequency, and only 20 % as usual.
Although the percentage of users is stable, increase the intensity of use, ie casual cyclist became daily and recreational use only becomes a means of transportation to get to work.
Moreover, there is evidence that urban distances of 10 km or less (90% of daily trips) bicycle users take less time to reach your destination as motorists.
To consolidate this shift and make cycling a real alternative to the vehicle, it is imperative the commitment of local government, providing infrastructure and services are designed to prove the effectiveness firsthand to their use on the go and the benefits derived continuing use.
In these areas has focused largely Chamber his speech, in which he alluded to the actions undertaken in Murcia to plan a city more livable, more sustainable and more humane.
These measures Chamber has referred to programs promoting sustainable mobility, the drafting of the Master Plan for the Use of the Bicycle, the creation of the Municipal Office of the Bicycle in 2010, the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan of Murcia and the implementation of public rental system, among others.
Regarding this last resort, Mayor and President of the RCxB recalled that the number of cities in the world to have this service has increased from just 100 in 2007 to over 400 in 2010, going also to provide 60,000 bicycles to 250,000 .
The largest percentage of these systems is concentrated in Europe, with 88%, followed by Asia with 7%, with 4% America and Oceania with 1%.
In Spain there has been a steady growth since 2007, from 35 rental systems to 147 last year, divided into 197 municipalities.
The majority are located in cities of less than 50,000, while those with a population over 500,000 clump 4% of these services.
The bicycle, driving jobs
Other significant data provided by Miguel Angel House indicate that systems generate public bicycle rental 1,095 direct jobs, but there are studies that predict that the commitment to sustainable mobility could employ nearly 450,000 people by 2020 and reduce energy consumption 13%.
Miguel Angel House has been invited to participate as a speaker at the Congress of Cities and Territories representing Cycling Spanish municipalities.
Organized by the Metropolitan Nice CĂ´te d'Azur is developed with the slogan "The bicycle, local and global instrument to reinvent life" and involves mayors and political leaders of transport and mobility in cities in France, USA, Japan , Mexico, Poland, China, Colombia, Italy and Belgium.
For three days, Nice is the center of discussion of issues related to urban bicycle use, both for leisure and for mobility.
Interventions address aspects such as the combination of modes of transport, the promotion of alternative mobility solutions, the perspective of community networks and innovation plus workshops, exhibitions and cultural activities related to the bicycle.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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