Municipality acquired new bicycles with safety equipments

In what was described as a new step towards the sustainable mobility of the commune, the mayor Eduardo Soto in safety clothing gave the official go to this innovative program that proposes to replace the use of the car and promote the network of bikeways in the city.

The building house of Rancagua has about 9 buildings distributed in different points of the commune; all of them accessible through the more than 54 kilometers of bikeways that the regional capital holds. With the foregoing in mind, it is that the mayor Eduardo Soto together with the Secretary of Community Planning, Raimondi Agility, promoted the idea that their officials could move between these points through the use of bicycles.

With an investment of close to 10 million pesos, the municipality acquired 25 new bicycles with a unique design and with all the available safety equipment (helmet, padlocks, lights and even a reflective vest), which will start this pilot in the municipal building of Plaza Heroes. Moreover, that will soon be replicated in the rest of the institutional establishments setting an unquestionable precedent in terms of the use of ecological and efficient mobility alternatives promoting gradually healthy living and exercise.

On the unprecedented initiative, Eduardo Soto pointed out that after consolidating Rancagua's cycle path network and delivering more than 500 bicycles to different educational establishments. "Today we are in the next stage of being able to use this alternative and sustainable means of transport with our municipal officials of so that many of the trips they make between one building and another and especially those working in the CDC touring the towns and villages can join this campaign called "A pedaling through Rancagua", "he said.

Raimondi Agility, Secretary of Community Planning of the municipality of Rancagua and confessed cyclist, highlighted this new advance in the use of the bicycle and especially in what translates to take a car off the street and replace it with a self-propelled vehicle. "This investment allows convert 25 less cars on the street, that is, 25 officials promoting sustainable mobility to the community and within the same municipality.”

As for those who will make use of modern bicycles and safety equipments, Francisco, sectionalist SECPLAC said, "We are proud to see as a municipality can do powerful and innovative things and we also hope that this will motivate other municipalities to take this witness and advance in this same line of generating alternatives to the automobile.”