A dozen public schools in Madrid have already signaled their roads safer, by which pupils can get to school safe and healthy way, within the initiative "Madrid on foot, safe way cole ', which is part of the Road Safety Strategic Plan 2007-2010.
The mayor, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon, today issued stock of the initiative thirteen months after his presentation. The event was held in the Public School Amadeo Vives, Latin district, where the mayor was accompanied by the heads of the departments involved: Safety and Mobility, Work and Public Spaces, Family and Social Services, Environment.
The center, which hosted the pilot project, and barriers have been installed in the sidewalks along the perimeter and informational signs to alert drivers. Furthermore, it has changed the online car parking on drums, has doubled the width of sidewalk access to school and have been set back two pedestrian crossings to prevent abuses.
These and other measures were identified by escoyos students themselves as they were to walk to class in the first phase of the implementation of these routes, where municipal officials are studying alternatives in a mile of radio used by students on their return journey to the center . Then opens a discussion process to select the ten initiatives to implement and, finally, measures are implemented within a maximum of three years.
