With the Bike School of Adults, Sports teaches again to ride a bike

This morning has been presented in Benidorm the 'Bicycle School of Adults', a proposal of the Department of Sports in collaboration with the Benidorm Bicycle Table, the Children's Traffic Park and the Association of Neighbors of Els Tolls, which is also They have joined the companies of ecological and sustainable tourism Tao and Marco Polo.

The initiative consists of carrying out three work sessions, one a month, on Saturdays, April 21, May 19 and June 23, in which adults who have stopped using their bicycles for a long time will be able to return to their habit. municipal ordinances of circulation and will learn to solve small mechanical problems.

"It's an initiative, said the Councilor for Sports, Arturo Cabrillo, which has a lot to do with the idea we have expressed on countless occasions of putting value on sustainable mobility." The objective is that journeys through the city "can be done by bicycle or walking" so it is "focused as an adult school". Cabrillo stressed that it is necessary for citizens to "become aware" and take advantage of "Benidorm's great bike lane network", which, with this initiative, "are put into value by encouraging its use by the elderly "

Cabrillo has presented this project accompanied by the representative of the Association of Neighbors of Els Tolls, Juan Antonio Lizancos, the president of the Union Ciclista Benidorm. José Aurelio Goas, and municipal coach Juan Carlos Sánchez Galiano. Lizancos has stressed that there are many older people who tell us that they used to ride bicycles and not now. "That's why," he said, "after consulting with the Local Police and the Children's Traffic Park, from the Bicycle Table of Benidorm we have proposed this school." The local representative has also detailed that "after the realization of the SUMP [Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan] it has been detected that in 15 years we have gone from having 670 vehicles per thousand inhabitants to 610". This not only supposes 4,200 vehicles less in the city but of detects "a change in the way of moving around the city", which with this Bike School it aims to support.

For his part, the president of Benidorm Cycling Union believes that this is "an unbeatable opportunity" to promote the use of the bicycle "because it is what will move the future." The practices of the Bike Adult School will be held in the Children's Traffic Park. The activity is free and participants can go with their bikes and if they do not have them, the park will provide them