Pedestrian Association Cordobesa A Leg, along with the rest of the groups that have become STANDING GROUP FOR SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY Córdoba, released the following call to the we encourage you to attend:
Day: Wednesday 23 December.
Time: 10:30 h.
Location: Next to the square of the Poet John Bernier
Events: Reading a press release calling for investments in projects that promote sustainable mobility in our city with the new Local Sustainability funds. Claim is essentially the network of minibuses in the town Historically, the implementation of the Bicycle Master Plan and actions that affect the improvement of pedestrian mobility in the city and the historic downtown pedestrian. A reading attended by members of the groups organizers.
Convenes: Permanente Group for Sustainable Mobility (consisting of City Women's Association Tandem , Cordoba A Pedestrian Association Pata, Central District Council, Association of neighboring Al-Fatiha (Realejo), Track Bike Platform Córdoba , Ecologists in Action, WWF / ADENA and Environment Group of the Youth Council)
Here you can read the statement, which also can download it here in press releases section of our mini-site :
the imminence of the selection of projects to be financed by the State Fund for Employment and Local Sustainability [1] , the Standing Group Sustainable Mobility
EXHIBITS
state that the new fund incorporates its investment objectives, projects and activities funded will contribute to the economic, social and environmental . The projects funded under it should be directed primarily towards those that take into consideration in a responsible and honest perspective of sustainable development in its environmental aspects, employment, support for research, technological development and innovation, both economically and socially.
Among possible measures, and more necessary to have an impact on several of these aspects are:
- The drive for savings and energy efficiency as well as accessibility and use of renewable energy.
- Las aimed at promoting sustainable urban mobility and strengthening of cleaner transport modes, including management information systems and automatic control, and efforts to improve safety vial.
therefore considers
That is a priority at this crucial move towards a model of mobility that minimizes dependence on fossil fuels and car as the prime example of wasting them.
That requires investment in infrastructure and effective public transport systems and universal, as well as networks of bicycle and pedestrian corridors and the development of these non-polluting transport modes. That this Fund
state provides, for its endowment and philosophy, the opportunity to carry out projects as
- progressively Implementation minibus network of historic and those that ensure pedestrian it.
- The culmination of the network of cycle routes included in the current planning (especially those that allow access to places of interest such as the Reina Sofia Hospital, the campus or industrial estates.
- Solutions for habitability and sustainable mobility in those nodes where it is notoriously difficult as the Glorieta of Biscay in the Arroyo del Moro to the souk area.
CLAIMS to be heard and taken into account both his voice and his arguments for the projects of general public interest part of the projects under the State Fund for Employment and Local Sustainability and urges competent authorities to reject those projects that meet all the fund's philosophy, noting that the requests for this city today do not come from a local private interests, but are a reflection of a change that is sweeping the world, which is primarily based on the Climate Change Summit was held in Copenhagen.
And for the record signed this communication in Cordoba December 23, 2009
Association of WomenCordobesa A Pedestrian Association PATA
Neighborhood Association Al Fatiha - Realejo
District Council
Center Youth Council (Environmental Group)
WWF / ADENA[1] Royal Decree Law 13/2009 of 26 October http://www.mpt.es/servicios/fondo_sostenibilidad/Real_Decreto_Ley0/document_es/20091027BOE.pdf
