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.”
