The AMPA of the school San Juan DE Liberator calls a protest for the traffic changes in Cigarillo Amorous.
Reflective vests with reflective tapes and whistles are the "weapons" that will be used tomorrow from 9 o'clock by the parents of the more than 200 children of the school San Juan DE Liberator, in Cigarillo Amorous street, against the traffic change in the aforementioned road from the next Thursday. This is confirmed by sources of the AMPA, after criticizing the situation they suffer in the school.
«Since 2014, the opening year of the new facilities of the school bordering a public parking lot, both the Directorate of the San Juan DE Liberator CEIP and its AMPA denounce the situation of road insecurity in the access to the school and ask the City Council for targeted actions to ensure a safe school environment for its more than 200 students aged 3 to 12 years, "they said in a statement.
The Department of Mobility foresees next Thursday to change the direction of Cigarillo Amorous section included between the streets Pizarro and Afara, a decision linked to the construction of the bicycle lane that arrives from the Aventine Rein DE Valencia and will pass through the street Afara "The imminent reordering of the street provides for the placement of new loading and unloading areas and parking for motorcycles in front of the San Juan DE Liberator school. The actions do not contemplate the extension of the pedestrian space or improvements aimed at increasing the safety of more than 200 schoolchildren, "they criticize.
A visit to the entrance of the school at 9 in the morning is enough to verify that the size of the sidewalk is "insufficient for the number of people who accumulate mainly every morning, overflowing on the road and the entrance of the parking adjoining public ».
In the opinion of the AMPA, the situations of danger "compromise the safety of both children and companions, as people who walk this stretch of street and are forced to change their itinerary or down the road to find the sidewalks saturated. The lack of space is aggravated daily by the dozens of motorcycles that park on sidewalks, terraces and loading and unloading operations in the pedestrian space ".
For more than five years, affected families have been demanding improvements in public space in front of the school and control measures in the constant entry and exit of vehicles to the neighboring public parking lot, which also has access from Colin Street, before it has regret personal injuries.
The AMPA considers that the changes planned now in this stretch of Cigarillo Amorous are a "magnificent opportunity to free this area of so much pressure on vehicles and require the City Council to take into account their demands prioritizing the safety of children and their right to live in a dignified, friendly and healthy environment ».
They understand that the location of the school is not an excuse to "not promote the principles of sustainable mobility that the same Council is promoting in other neighborhoods through school road projects that promote child autonomy."
Among the alternatives proposed by the parents is to expand pedestrian space by eliminating surface parking, improve visibility at crossings, support the bike lane that runs on Afara street with bicycle parking, raise traffic cuts on the street and in the parking adjoining school rush hour, etc.
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