Local companies, through CSR, will make possible, thanks to their involvement, the launch of a bicycle lane that will link the Industrial Estate with the urban centre of the municipality.
Life CityAdap3, the project coordinated by the Federation of Municipalities of the Region of Murcia and funded by the European Union, in which pilot actions will be carried out to combat climate change in Alcantarilla, Loquí, Molina de Segura and Reggio Emilia, has celebrated today, thanks to the organization of the rest of the partners, the CSR Chair of the University of Murcia and Eurovértice, the first Info Day.
The Info Days will be online events to publicise the companies that, through Corporate Social Responsibility, will finance part of the projects in the municipalities.
The first event was led by the Alcantarilla City Council and local companies that will provide funding for the project, which is a bicycle and pedestrian lane that will link the city centre with the Western Industrial Estate. One of the key aspects of this project is that it will have public-private funding between the council, the European Union and local companies.
This multimodal platform in Alcantarilla will connect the city centre, from Plaza Adolfo Suárez, with the Industrial Estate and will have space for pedestrians, a shaded area and a system for filtering and reusing rainwater.
This cycle lane, which will be open to pedestrians and cyclists, has been chosen by the European Union to participate in the European project due to its sustainable strategy and the importance of this action, since Alcantarilla has the highest population density in the Region of Murcia per square kilometre, and its Industrial Estate is the largest in Spain.
The first section will be 600 metres long and is financed by the Alcantarilla City Council, the European Union, the companies Hidrogea, Plasbel, Copele, Nutrafur, the business association of the Western Industrial Estate and the entity responsible for the conservation of the estate.
The Mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, who participated in the 'Info Day', highlighted that "the benefits for the future development of the city and the advantage that it represents for the companies established here to make this project a reality, with the opportunity that it represents to contribute to the socioeconomic development and the well-being of the environment."
This project will be the axis on which the municipality's future sustainable mobility network for pedestrians and cyclists will be developed and its total budget is 2,3 million euros, of which 1,14 million are provided by the European Union.
For the development of the first section, the City Council has invested 148.000 euros, the collaborating companies 54.000 euros and the European Union 185.000 euros.
The Life City Adap3 project in Alcantarilla, managed by the Department of Economic Development, is included in the City Council's Action Plan for Climate and Sustainable Energy (PACES), which includes measures to promote sustainable mobility and combat climate change.
Alcantarilla joined the European initiative to combat climate change, the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, in 2017 and made a commitment to reduce greenhouse gases by 40 percent before 2030, a target set by the European Union.
