Car Free Day demands acceleration of Low Emission Zones in Spain

This is the case of Carmen Duce, spokesperson for Ecologistas en Acción and an expert in sustainable mobility, admitting that “60% of daily journeys are already made on foot”, but even so, “it is necessary to facilitate and guarantee collective public transport.” It is open to transportation and the public, at the expense of private vehicles that spend more than 90% parked.

Duce recalled several cases where a “non-existent right” collided with public transport, such as in Valladolid or Gijón, where a bus lane plan was cancelled. pedestrianization of a street.

The environmental group’s Clean Cities campaign aims to “prioritize human health over the use of special vehicles” and therefore aims to completely decarbonize cities with three-axis-based emission-free mobility by 2030: low-traffic areas, school streets and Low Emission Zones (ZBE).

Creation of ZBE “may be in jeopardy with upcoming municipal elections” According to this expert, Ecologists in Action committed to “monitoring the €1,500 million subsidy” committed by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda in the sustainable and digital transformation of urban transport. this has nothing to do with it.

According to surveys collected by Clean Cities, although the population “already demands cities with less smoke and noise,” Duce acknowledged that “100% of existing vehicles cannot be replaced to electrify them because there is not enough material or energy to do so, but for now private “The number of vehicles can be reduced,” he said.

In the same vein, Isabell Büschell, the head of the Spanish branch of the European Transport and Environment Federation (T&E), which is the platform that brings together NGOs working in this field, expressed her views, “End sales of combustion cars before 2035Decarbonising the freight transport sector and achieving the goal of removing all polluting vehicles from European roads by 2050″.

Büschell believes it is necessary to persist, “and now even more so in the midst of the energy crisis”in reducing transport use and moving in line with “greener” technologies such as battery electric vehicles.

He also pointed out that the ‘polluter pays’ principle should be implemented, for example, including tax incentives in the sector in the General Government Budgets, which go hand in hand with the moral change of the society.

In fact, T&E submitted it to the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge. Draft an “alternative and more detailed” royal decree for the implementation of the ZBEHe pointed to a regulation with “a homogeneous regulatory framework and minimum requirements” because the Climate Change Act “only provides for the establishment of these regulations, but does not specify how.”

World Car Free Day was an initiative of the European Commission in 2000, although the first days of protest were held in various European cities in the mid-1990s.

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