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The delegate of the Government, Francisco Jiménez, presided this morning the act of signing the City Council adhesion to the STARS project of the DGT, which promotes and encourages active and sustainable movements between schoolchildren and teachers.
The mayor, Gaspar Miras, and the Chief Traffic Officer, Virginia Jerez, have been responsible for expressing their signature in the agreement.
"This is a European project, pioneer in the Region of Murcia and to which I am convinced many others will be added shortly, for which, after signing this agreement, the city council undertakes to disseminate the project through campaigns and actions that give visibility to the activities of promotion of active displacements, on foot and by bicycle, carried out by the center, and also undertakes to promote the relevant and necessary changes in the municipality in order to make a safer, more accessible and friendly environment for all road users, "explained the Government delegate.
The project also seeks to raise awareness and raise public awareness of the use of roads from the perspective of active displacements.
On the other hand, the General Directorate of Traffic undertakes to lead this project by offering support and collaboration through the Murcia Traffic Headquarters through the road education coordinators who will maintain a direct collaboration with all the representatives involved, advising the teachers in the development of the Project, providing didactic resources and auditing the activities and the consequent level of accreditation (bronze, silver or gold).
The Stars (Sustainable Travel Accreditation and Recognition for Schools) Project, which promotes the active and sustainable displacements of students and teachers from shared action, developing a methodology based on campaigns to promote sustainable mobility that students themselves develop, with accreditation of the schools based on the results obtained through auditing and verification by the human resources that the General Directorate of Traffic offers, as well as accreditation to the students based on the skills, abilities and correct use of the bicycle in the process of project application.
"This project will be developed at the IES Antonio Hellín, in Puerto de Mazarrón and entails, on our part, to create an investment project and adaptation of the roads and access environments to the center to make the traceability of displacements on foot or in bike students and avoid the large number of vehicles daily to take students, "said the mayor, Gaspar Miras.
The Provincial Traffic Chief, Virginia Jerez, has recognized Mazarrón as one of the great allies in the field of road education, with full support, she said, to this type of initiatives.
"The idea is that mobility in cities is increasingly friendly, universal, sustainable, healthy, and for this we must reflect a lot on how we move the elderly, because children learn from what we teach them and how we educate them" , said Jerez.
Within the Road Safety Strategy 2011/2020 there is a commitment to direct actions towards sustainable, universal, healthy and safe mobility.
The General Directorate of Traffic, aware of this commitment and within its tasks of "ensuring the road safety of all road users" makes use of different strategies and tools, among which is Road Education for safe mobility , trying to reach with her all the groups and in all the stages of the evolutionary process of the person.
For this reason, the Provincial Traffic Headquarters of Murcia promotes the implementation of Safe School Road Projects, such as those carried out in the municipalities of Alhama de Murcia, Beniel or Molina de Segura, which have undertaken various actions to promote the autonomy of children on their usual trips to school, creating a network of safe itineraries marked with meeting points, sidewalk markings, improvements such as curb cuts, painting crosswalks and even the creation of new crosswalks.
Within this framework of safe mobility, two European projects have also been promoted from the Murcia Traffic Department: on the one hand, the Snake Project for primary schools and that encourages students and their families to travel to school in a sustainable way (on foot, by bike, bus or shared car) to improve mobility on daily trips to schools and reduce traffic and traffic jams around these centers.
A total of 12 centers in the province have been added to it, with the participation of 3,555 students and their families from the 2018-2019 academic year to the 2019-2020 academic year.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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