The plenary session of the Calpee City Council has approved the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (Spanish acronym: PMUS), which will be the reference framework for the next few years for actions to be carried out in the field of mobility in Calpee.
The PMUS is a compulsory document for municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, according to the Valencia Community Mobility Law, and aims to contribute to a reduction in the environmental impact of transport and energy consumption based on fossil fuels, as well as to promote sustainable urban planning that does not encourage the use of the car and with solutions that facilitate the use of public transport.
The plan, whose drafting has been subsidized by the European Union's Federal Funds, has consisted of a diagnosis of the municipality, to know its situation regarding mobility, as well as a program of actions to improve the deficiencies detected. In this regard, the plan notes that the terrain of Calpe does not favor the mobility of pedestrians or bicycles, that the dispersion of its urban area makes the use of motor vehicles is recurrent and on the other hand, that intercity connections in the town are not the best. For all these reasons, the plan establishes some general lines of action such as the design of pedestrian routes, including safe school paths so that children and parents can walk to school, bicycle parking and other measures to encourage the use of this means of transport.
The document has been agreed upon by the Departments of Town Planning, Local Police, Social Services, Equality and the Elderly and may be modified according to various indicators such as carbon monoxide and NOx emissions, the number of accidents involving motor vehicles or the number of schoolchildren participating in the school trails.