The CEO of the General Directorate of Traffic, Pere Navarro, has been today in A coruña within the acts by the Mobility Week. On a visit to the Calle Alcalde Marchesi, recently pedestrianized, has been in favor of hindering or limiting through legislative measures the applications that warn of where the police are located on the road. He pointed out, however, that the number of deaths in circulation has decreased significantly since 2004, going from 15 a day on average to less than four.
He has also admitted that there is more citizen awareness, however he assumes that alcohol is still present and there are still those who run and distractions are becoming more frequent. He is in favor of the applications as long as they reduce the number of deaths on the roads.
It has set as a challenge for cities to move towards a sustainable and safe mobility, after 2019 in which deaths on urban roads increased by six percent, unlike in interurban roads that decreased by the same percentage compared to 2018. He has been convinced that the use of bicycles and, above all, promoting walking will facilitate the transformation of cities.
Pere Navarro has assured that it is “in the right direction”, but has stressed that we must continue working with the aim that “there are no deaths”. “Calming traffic is the great project of the DGT to reduce accidents in cities,” he indicated about measures such as reduce traffic to 30 kilometers per hour.
In line with this, and in the European Mobility Week, he stressed that there is a ministry in this area and that the debate has been opened for the “national mobility strategy”. “And the first mobility law is being worked on,” he also cited as examples.
State of alarm
The director of the DGT has stated that the effects of the state of alarm on traffic should also be used, with fewer trips, to promote measures in this area.
Likewise, he has highlighted the decrease in accidents, with a decrease “more in Galicia than in all of Spain”, he remarked. “Mobility, in addition to being sustainable, must be safe,” insisted the director of the DGT, for whom cities that do not manage their mobility well “are going to be trapped in noise, congestion and pollution.”
On the other hand, to questions from journalists, he has been in favor of, through legislative measures, “making it difficult or limiting to report where there are police on the road.”
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