translated from Spanish: Government Morelia will strengthen cycling mobility, safe and viable

Morelia, Michoacán.- Transforming Morelia with safety and viability is one of the objectives of the Government of Morelia, in that sense the Secretariat of Mobility and Public Space headed by Antonio Godoy González Vélez, presented the Cycling Infrastructure Network for the municipality. This implementation will begin in a first stage with 13 kilometers of priority lanes for the cyclist in 5 roads: Avenidas Solidaridad; Ventura Puente; Aqueduct; Wood and; Cuautla Street.
The Morelia Cycling Network does not represent special lanes for the user of the bicycle but starts from an awareness and road education for the respect of users and the pacification of the speed at which motorized vehicles travel, in addition to bringing I get the necessary infrastructure to achieve that safety and viability of the cycling route as they will be: Macetones and pedestrian guard ears, marked so that the driver can easily perceive them and allow the pedestrian to wait for their crossing in the road arteries without being exposed to nearby driving with motor vehicles; Cushion-type speed reducers, which allow the car to drive at a moderate speed of 30 kilometers per hour steadily; Cycling traffic lights; Cyclist priority signaling; Cycling waiting box and ; Cycling buffer zone.
The Secretary of Municipal Mobility, Antonio Godoy, in the company of the director of Sustainable Mobility, Juan Manuel Berdejo Maldonado, the Head of Active Mobility, Nadia Figueroa González and the head of Road Education, Marte Javier Ayala Díaz de León, presented this network Morelia cyclist, in which 3.5 million pesos will be invested to place the cycling safety infrastructure and generate the awareness campaign.
For the municipal administration of the mayor, Raúl Morón Orozco the use of bicycles will be a mode of transport to consolidate with a public policy agenda to be strengthened for the city. In this tenor the Director of Sustainable Mobility, Juan Manuel Berdejo, emphasized that in an exercise of collaborative mapping of cycling routes carried out between universities, organizations, municipal authorities and citizens, 270 routes and the factors were drawn for the use of the bicycle, which showed the feasibility of this non-motorized transport.
In addition, The Head of Active Mobility, Nadia Figueroa, reiterated that the cycling infrastructure will bring mobility improvements for the pedestrian and bicycle user to optimize the options of the citizenry to move by remembering that the right lane will be priority use for cyclists in most roads.
In this same presentation of the Network, the activation “Rebase Seguro” was made, which led to the purpose of reminding motorists that the separation to overtake a bike user must be 1.5 meters, to do it safely for the cyclist , in which journalists invited to know this campaign and actions to be implemented in Morelia participated.

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