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Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián
Achieving the goals of the White Paper on Transport: how civil society can help with delivery. Brussels 2012/12/07
Andrés Martínez. Municipality of Donostia / San Sebastián
Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián
• Located in the Basque Country, in the north coast of Spain.
• 185.000 inhabitants• Half of the population live in
hilly areas• Public transport company run
by the Municipality• Almost half of the internal
trips are made by foot.
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Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián
• Participation department in the Municipality• Mobility Advisory Group
– 30 different associations: neighborhoods, political parties, taxi, bike riders, car drivers, shop owners, public transport operators, municipality technician, car park companies, transport carriers associations, women associations, chamber of commerce…
– Civic pact for road safety– Working group to study new pedestrian
streets
• Meetings with neighbors
- Old Part (Goods distribution)
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• Meetings with neighbors
- Vertical Transport
Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián
• Bicycle Observatory
- Working together the main cyclist association of the city (Kalapie) and the Mobility
department of the Municipality
• Monitoring of the cycling net of the city
• Channeling of complaints and suggestions
• Revise the fulfilling of the City bike plan
• Yearly report about cycling in the city
• Awareness campaigns
• take actively part in the plan to repair and send the bikes to Cuba, Benin,
Sahara…
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• Participation linked to different projects - Civitas Archimedes
• Meetings carried out related to focus measures (vertical transport, cycling infrastructure, biofuels and high quality transport corridors).
Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián
•Participation linked to different projects
- TIDE
• Local innovation forums related to the two measures carried out in the
city (safe bike parks and creation of a friendly street from a car focussed
area).
• In these forums focus group meetings will take part (car park owners,
cyclists representatives, neighborhood associations).
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•Participation:
- It can be hard and some times it is not very grateful
- It is necessary to knock many doors
- It must be coherent
- It must know the limits
- It must be constant and persevering
Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián
Andrés Martínez Donostia / San Sebastián [email protected]
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