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The Councillor for Environment and Urban Quality, Adela Martinez-Cacho, attended a debate called by Murcia en Bici, Párraga Center, within the events organized by the association in connection with the Mobility Week.
After hearing the expert on urban mobility and an engineer at the University of Dortmund, Christian Kisters, the mayor discussed various aspects of the Bicycle Master Plan.
This explained the need to create a mesh of roads cycling trails that is safe, consistent, accessible, connected and intermodal for the city is ready to welcome new players of mobility, to the problems that will be many new users Riding with little experience coupled with the lack of custom from other road users to coexist with cyclists.
The councilman said that whenever possible ciclocalles be inserted as a tool to pacify the traffic on streets with average daily less than 5,000 vehicles can share the road, while those that exceed 5,000 vehicles are segregated bike lane.
In addition, the route for cyclists can be inserted on the sidewalk if it is wider than four meters.
In addition, Martinez-Cacho said that this Plan is taking place with the consensus of citizens and municipal services, as it is a plan in which there is public participation in meetings of various working groups that began on 6 November 2007 with the first session in which the Mayor presented the plan.
They have subsequently made other five sessions in which different groups were able to give suggestions and actively participate in developing the plan.
In this way they have been almost fifty contributions made in the mailbox bicicletamurcia@hotmail.com , all studied and incorporated.
In addition, Martinez-Cacho recalled that the total network of roads after running cycling trails master plan will be 484 kilometers and which proposes the construction of more than 200 miles to be added to those already implemented, planned or under construction.
Under the Plan, in the districts of the North Coast will be created ciclocalles 53.7 miles and six segregated carriageway in the districts of the South Coast, 116 miles ciclocalles, 3.6 in sidewalk, 5.7 segregated carriageway and 0.4 elimination of parking spaces.
In the downtown area will ciclocalles 12.5 km, 15.5 in sidewalk, secreted 3.4, 5.5, and 1.5 elimination of parking and parking modification.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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