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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


• 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.


• 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)


• Meetings with neighbors

- Vertical Transport


• 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…


• Participation linked to different projects - Civitas Archimedes

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


•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).


•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


Andrés Martínez Donostia / San Sebastián [email protected]

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