Not a week has passed since the news was known. However, the decision of the government team of the Zaragoza City Council If not incorporating a bike lane in the reform of Pedro Cerbuna Street, in the university environment of the San Francisco Square, the cycling groups have not liked. These, in fact, had already presented a series of allegations to the project to be incorporated. However, they say, they have not yet been answered.
Last Friday, the Minister of Urbanism, Víctor Serrano, explained that in the renewal of this busy street, which will have a budget of 3,099,766.49 euros and an execution period of nine months, there was no place for a bike lane without harming pedestrian mobility. An affirmation with which from Zaragoza Cyclist, wild connecting rods and the pedaling collective disagree.
So much so that they have asked Serrano and his team to analyze technically and respond to the allegations presented in which, they affect, “there is a unidirectional bike lane in the counter-direction of the general traffic” and that, in addition, “its inclusion in the narrowest stretch of the street guarantees compliance with the current local regulations on fire protection.”
This citizen demand is no accident. And, as Sara Ballester recalls, representative of the cycling groups, “there is currently no direct connection in the two directions to the main door of the San Francisco square campus.” Thus, it affects, “Mobility could be very improvable because in the area there is only access to Domingo Miral Street and Emperor Carlos V square.”
Thus the bike lane would run along Pedro Cerbuna Street
They also emphasize that this measure does not harm pedestrian mobility since, in the rest of the layout, the bike lane would run through the area currently defined for online parking, “whose disappearance would imply fewer cars passing through the street contributing to the improvement in the safety and tranquility of the street.” Similarly, the suppression of the perimeter wall of the University of Zaragoza, as its sustainable mobility plan contemplates, it would further expand the pedestrian and vegetation space of the street.
For all these reasons, cycling groups have claimed the Minister of Urban Planning, Víctor Serrano, and the City of Zaragoza a “serious response” to their allegations and the inclusion of the counter -family bicycle lane in the final project.
