Benidorm joins the European Mobility Week 2023 this Saturday

Benidorm joins, once again, the European Mobility Week, which is celebrated every year between 16 and 22 September, in which almost 3,000 cities and towns from across the continent collaborate to promote public transport and other forms of transportation. more sustainable mobility.

The theme chosen by the European Commission for the 2023 campaign is 'Energy efficiency' and the motto for this and future years will be 'Combine and move!'.

The councilor for the department, Francis Muñoz, has revealed today the program of activities that will begin to take place tomorrow to "instill to residents the advantages of using sustainable transport and its benefits for health and the environment, in particular, public transport, bicycle and traveling on foot” with an eye toward building “a better, more comfortable and friendly city for everyone.”

The program will start tomorrow, Saturday the 16th, with a tour of the cycle-pedestrian paths of El Moralet Park, starting at 10:00 in the morning. The weekend activities will be completed on Sunday, a day dedicated to cycling, with a route that will depart, also at 10:00 a.m., from Avenida de Madrid to Torre de les Caletes in Serra Gelada Natural Park.

On Monday the 18th, Plaza de SS MM los Reyes de España will be the setting where, within 'Green Car Day', an open day, the clean vehicles of municipal public services will be exhibited, starting from 11:00 a.m. Likewise, on Monday the 'Brico Bici' will begin, a traveling workshop of tips and basic mechanics aimed at the youngest, taught by Tao Bike, which will take place every day between 12:00 and 14:00, this time at the IES Mediterranean.

The day on Tuesday the 19th will be dedicated to pedestrians with the presentation, at 11:00, in the morning of 'Metrominuto / Biciminuto'. An information panel that explains to residents how long it takes to walk the distance between two specific points in the city. The 'Brico Bici' will be aimed at the students of IES Bernat de Sarrià and Beatriu Fajardo de Mendoza.

On Wednesday the 20th, the day's activities will focus on 'Road safety education for the little ones'. The activities will begin at 9:00, in Salt de l'Aigua Children's Traffic Park. The 'Brico Bici' will move this day to IES Pere Maria Orts i Bosch and on Thursday the 21st, to IES l'Almadrava.

Friday the 22nd will be 'Car Free Day' in which, from 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., traffic on Paseo de Poniente will be restricted to residents and public transport. Also, at 10:00 in the morning, El Torrejó Municipal Center will host the meeting 'Tourism and sustainable mobility, Benidorm model' in which the mayor of Benidorm and president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Toni Pérez, the councilor of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montes and the general director of Transport and Logistics of the Generalitat, Manuel Ríos.