Barcelona City Council will present at the next plenary session, the plan of urgent measures for the adaptation of urban space under returns to the streets after the weakening of the insulation measures. The implementation of these measures will cost about 4.4 billion euros, according to Catalan newspaper Catalan News.
Importantly, in the opinion of the Barcelona authorities to expand the pedestrian areas of the streets to allow people to distance themselves from each other at a safe distance, and also to give more space to cyclists and public transport.
this is supposed to do walking the streets in traditional uploaded by car the city centre, and on the other to widen the sidewalks. For example, walking can be a Diagonal one of the main avenues of Barcelona.
As expected, the project developers, these measures, along with the appearance of more space for pedestrians and cyclists, will reduce the number of cars and make the air cleaner. As stated by city officials, their goal is to achieve 40.8 per cent of all displacements of residents were conducted on public transport, 35.3 per cent were on foot, 19,9 – by private car and 4% by Bicycle.
the expansion of pedestrian and Cycling zones in urban areas now spoken in the world. On the website of the Australian government news Government News urbanists argue that if earlier the city was planned under the car, the pandemic coronavirus showed that we need more space for people. Says urban designer Mike day, Director of the Australian company on urban planning Roberts Day, “pandemic showed that in the future people will live and work in the style of Silicon valley, where pedestrians and bicycles will have priority over cars”. In his view, the pandemic showed that the parks, so the landscaping will also be one of the main directions in the planning of cities. Day recalled that the epidemic has always served as a stimulus for the modernization of urban infrastructure. For example, the sewers in European cities began to implement after a cholera epidemic in the late nineteenth century.
As stated by the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, the authorities of the French capital are considering to convert some streets of the city in a bike highway that duplicate subway lines. This will give people the opportunity to get to work without using public transport.
Milan intend for this summer to turn the 35 kilometres of streets in the pedestrian and Bicycle zones. This will allow you to keep your distance, as well as helping to clear the city of smog, according to authorities. The example will be followed by Milan and other cities of the Italian region of Lombardy.
On such a measure as a closure for vehicles frequentand streets, went to the authorities of Bogota, capital of Colombia, there began to be closed to cars 76 miles of streets.
