The Councilor for Mobility, Economic Management and Contracting, José Francisco Muñoz, presented this Wednesday at a press conference the activities that will be held in Murcia on the occasion of the European Mobility Week.
Thus, from this Saturday until the 22nd there will be bicycle routes through the most emblematic spaces of the city, board games, bike repair workshops, skating and skate board exhibitions, a traffic playground, a round table in which public transport in the municipality of Murcia and the traditional Car-Free Day will be analyzed.
The objective, the councilor explained, is for the City Council to join "European policies, to achieve more sustainable, more balanced, more efficient mobility, which modernizes the city, makes it a pioneer, which commits to balanced means of transport in all the senses, but that they actually go towards that green trend, of sustainability".
This Saturday the activities will begin with Parking Day, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., in the ORA parking lots on Jaime I Street (corner of the Archaeological Museum). This activity consists of provisionally occupying the parking spaces on this artery to give space to pedestrians.
To do this, a bicycle repair and advice workshop will be set up, and various activities will be carried out such as a t-shirt workshop or a bike repair workshop.
Likewise, around 7:30 p.m., the Cris March against Cancer will arrive at the Glorieta de España, in which some 240 kilometers will be done by bicycle from Ceutí, Jumilla or Calasparra and will cross through Sierra Espuña, entering Murcia around 8:00 p.m. .
Before, at 7:00 p.m., a pedestrian itinerary will leave from the City Hall door, in which participants will be able to learn about the history of the city of Murcia in a route in which there will be tests for attendees and historical figures will be taken into account. of relevance to the city such as the Wolf King, Alfonso X, Francisco Salzillo or the Count of Floridablanca.
An hour later the first of the bike routes will depart, which will take place on a 2-hour (10 kilometres) night tour that can be done as a family. The departure is from La Glorieta.
While on Sunday, the 17th, there will be another bike route through the Huerta de Murcia (10.30 am from the Glorieta), also 10 kilometers long and with educational content. In the afternoon, from 6:00 p.m., the Plaza del Cardenal Belluga will host activities such as trials (with the world champion, Dani Cegarra), singing games, inflatables and a climbing wall. A circuit will be installed in which the mobility problems of blind people can be experienced, since ONCE collaborates in this activity.
On the 18th, at 6:00 p.m. in the Moneo building, a round table will be held in which the new transport model in Murcia will be discussed, an issue, in his opinion, "key and essential in the situation in which we find ourselves." ". There will be experts in the field and representatives of groups.
On Tuesday the 19th and Wednesday the 20th, the bike and pedestrian routes return, with themed tours around the municipality, while on Thursday the 21st the new MuyBici rental bicycles will be presented.
Friday the 22nd will be Car Free Day, in which public transport will be free. The Avenida de la Fama will be closed to road traffic, where a traffic playground will be placed that, in the morning, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., schools will be able to attend.
In the afternoon, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the traffic park will be open to the public, upon registration. In addition, there will be a skater exhibition, a skill circuit, bicycle repair workshops and other activities to give a different use to the car on that street.
Decathlon, Patinar por Murcia, MuyBici, ONCE, Cris contra el Cancer, the General Directorate of Traffic, IPlan, Transportes de Murcia, Monbus, Tranvía de Murcia and Grupo Trial Bici Murcia collaborate in the organization of the European Mobility Week.
What is pursued, he stressed, are "citizen participation tasks to become aware of the need for increasingly sustainable and more orderly mobility."
Along these lines, he has announced that by the end of the month, on Monday the 25th, the Avenue of Fame will open in its entirety "with all its functionality and operability, once the work that had to be carried out has been completed."
"We want the dynamism of the environment to be in this main avenue and in the adjacent streets, where we will recover the Garden City project, the recovery of trees, of street furniture."
Asked if there will be ORA in the area, he commented that "we will attend to all the proposals and requests made to us from civil society."
In any case, he warns, "the maximum representatives of the citizens in this district are the Municipal Board and with them they will be the ones with whom we will work in this collection of proposals to assess all the needs that exist for parking, rotation, for residents, but without improvisations".
Asked about how the transport reorganization work is going, he recalled that "at the time the traffic modeling study was already carried out and there was the participation of all the municipal boards, more than 5,000 surveys and more than 500 proposals that they made. the municipal boards and that 98% were attended to, that is, there was a model that met the transportation needs of the municipality of Murcia".
But, he laments, "someone decided for two years that it was better to have it parked in a drawer and we have left two precious years to be able to launch a transport model that responds to the needs of the seventh city in Spain."
Now, he indicates, "with the calendar on us we are effectively working on recovering that project, on incorporating the improvements that are possible and within the deadlines that we are moving to go to the tender as soon as possible and put this transport model, which requires the completion of the works, we are already in the final stretch".
The objective is "to reconcile and balance all modes of transport, not to demonize any, to promote those that we understand are most necessary due to the issue of sustainability and the green city that we are all committed to, but with order and rigor in the decision making".
