Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián

Achieving the goals of the White Paper on Transport: how civil society can help with delivery. Brussels 2012/12/07

Andrés Martínez. Municipality of Donostia / San Sebastián

Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián

• Located in the Basque Country, in the north coast of Spain.

• 185.000 inhabitants• Half of the population live in

hilly areas• Public transport company run

by the Municipality• Almost half of the internal

trips are made by foot.

Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián

• Participation department in the Municipality• Mobility Advisory Group

– 30 different associations: neighborhoods, political parties, taxi, bike riders, car drivers, shop owners, public transport operators, municipality technician, car park companies, transport carriers associations, women associations, chamber of commerce…

– Civic pact for road safety– Working group to study new pedestrian

streets

• Meetings with neighbors

- Old Part (Goods distribution)

Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián

• Meetings with neighbors

- Vertical Transport

Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián

• Bicycle Observatory

- Working together the main cyclist association of the city (Kalapie) and the Mobility

department of the Municipality

• Monitoring of the cycling net of the city

• Channeling of complaints and suggestions

• Revise the fulfilling of the City bike plan

• Yearly report about cycling in the city

• Awareness campaigns

• take actively part in the plan to repair and send the bikes to Cuba, Benin,

Sahara…

Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián

• Participation linked to different projects - Civitas Archimedes

• Meetings carried out related to focus measures (vertical transport, cycling infrastructure, biofuels and high quality transport corridors).

Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián

•Participation linked to different projects

- TIDE

• Local innovation forums related to the two measures carried out in the

city (safe bike parks and creation of a friendly street from a car focussed

area).

• In these forums focus group meetings will take part (car park owners,

cyclists representatives, neighborhood associations).

Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián

•Participation:

- It can be hard and some times it is not very grateful

- It is necessary to knock many doors

- It must be coherent

- It must know the limits

- It must be constant and persevering

Participatory actions regarding sustainable mobility in Donostia / San Sebastián

Andrés Martínez Donostia / San Sebastián andres_martinez@donostia.org

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