Municipal Pact for Mobility: Xàbia will work to improve sustainable mobility, public transport and security
Xàbia held, on Monday morning, the ordinary plenary session corresponding to the month of June in person, after four months, carried out through telematic channels.
In this plenary session, all the political forces have unanimously approved the items on the agenda, among which the Municipal Pact for Mobility stood out. This point focuses on the final ordering for traffic in the First Montañar that includes a coastal promenade and evaluating its condition on Augusta Avenue and the Plá road.
Specifically, this pact includes nine measures that promote sustainable mobility and are in line with improving road safety, sustainable individual mobility or the promotion of a regional association of public transport.
At the moment, some proposals improvement have already been start-ups such as: pedestrianization in the surroundings of the Municipal Market, spaces for pedestrians in the entrances to the Paseo del Tenista David Ferrer, on the Arenal beach and the limitation of traffic to a single direction in the First Mountain.
From now on, the municipal corporation as a whole will work to:
- Hire and develop a mobility plan
- Technically study the alternatives for improving road and pedestrian safety on the new traffic management in the First Montañar.
- Convene technical meetings with the departments of Citizen Security and Public Roads to assess the impact on traffic on Avenida Augusta and Carretera del Plan derived from the pedestrianization of the Avenida del Mediterráneo road with Arenal direction.
- Promote the definitive project for a coastal walk in the First Montañar
- Convene the Municipal Town Planning Council to deal with the affectation, solutions and alternatives of sustainable mobility in Xàbia.
- Study the creation of dissuasive parking areas at strategic points in the municipality, including the necessary spaces for bikes and motorcycles.
- Study the prioritization formulas of sustainable individual mobility for our municipality and develop the necessary ordinances and infrastructures because they can be carried out with security guarantees for both VTP and pedestrian users.
- Propose in the municipalities of the region the study of the creation of a public transport association.
- Work within the PGE review that new developments prioritize and facilitate sustainable mobility.