The mayor of Tías, José Juan Cruz, and the first deputy mayor, Nicolás Saavedra, symbolically signed the Adhesion Letter of the Tías City Council to the European Sustainable Mobility Week this Wednesday. The City Council commits to carry out actions and raise awareness about sustainability in travel.
Both were accompanied by the Councilor for the Environment, Carmen Gloria Rodríguez, who excused the Councilor for Mobility, Sergio García, for not attending the event due to force majeure.
“Raising awareness about the need to change our way of traveling towards more sustainable modes, promoting means of traveling on foot, by bicycle and by public transport; and raising awareness about the improvement of people's quality of life by modifying our mobility habits, gaining spaces for residents and reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere”, are the essential axes in the City Council's strategy, José Juan Cruz indicated.
The mayor recalled that the Tías City Council approved its Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) on May 25 of this year, published in the Official Gazette of the Province (BOP) on July 10, 2023, and endowed with a budget of 19 million euros with specific strategies and measures related to compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Program of activities
Carmen Gloria Rodríguez reported on the events programmed by the Tías City Council from September 16 to 22 in different areas of Puerto del Carmen, Tías and Tegoyo. Rodríguez highlighted the online presentation, on September 20 at 6:00 p.m., of the content of the SUMP by its editor, Manuel Pineda.
This presentation will be carried out by live videoconference with time at the end to answer questions raised by the public. The link to access the videoconference is https://buff.ly/3rfQMGr
The Tías Sustainable Mobility Week 2023, under the slogan “Combine and move”, includes the Park(ing) Day initiative from September 16 to 22 on Avenida Alcalde Florencio Suárez (Tías center) and on Calle Plutón (Avenida de las Playas de Puerto del Carmen).
Park(ing) day is a European initiative that consists of temporarily occupying parking spaces to create a space for relaxation and leisure with awareness about sustainability.
The Tías City Council's program also includes the SDG walk with Claudia Cabrera, urban architect. The appointment will be on Monday, September 18, at 6:00 p.m. on Calle Suecia, 22, Puerto del Carmen.
To celebrate this week, the use of the internal bus of the municipality of Tías, line 34, is promoted to travel to Tegoyo on Tuesday and enjoy, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the workshops related to signage and road circuit taught by the PFAE Dinamiza Tías. Also on Tuesday in Tegoyo there will be, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., a zumba masterclass with Fernando Petit.
On Thursday, at the Conecta Tías Civic Center, located on Calle César Manrique 37, Puerto del Carmen, a first aid workshop will be offered by Boluntis Volunteer Firefighters. The screening of the documentary Bicycle vs Cars is scheduled for 6:00 p.m.
Friday, December 22, will concentrate most of the activities, which will take place in the Plaza de las Naciones, Puerto del Carmen. From 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. there will be a gymkhana, dynamized by Conecta Tías, skateboarding from 4 years old, a bicycle workshop and exhibition of electric bicycles by Decathlon Lanzarote, introductory classes to artistic skating and exhibitions by the Lanzarote Skating Association and CD Patinaje Buenos Ayres, dance and movement workshop with the Aruma association and zumba masterclass with Fernando Petit.
