The National Strategy for Active Pedestrian Mobility (ENMAP) must be approved by the Council of Ministers this month, Secretary of State for Urban Mobility, Jorge Delgado, told the press on Thursday in Porto.
“It is a strategy that has to be approved by the Council of Ministers, so the documentation is practically ready, we are in the legislative process to integrate it and prepare it so that it can go to a Council of Ministers,” he told reporters on Thursday at the Manuel António da Mota Foundation, in Porto.
The strategy must be approved “during this month,” said the official, who spoke on the sidelines of the Walking Cities congress, which will debate sustainable urban mobility this Thursday and Friday.
If we can manage it during the European Mobility Week, it will be good”, added Jorge Delgado, referring to the period between September 16 and 22.
Asked about the two-year delay in the approval of the ENMAP, Jorge Delgado said that “many times they are organizational problems, they are new issues.”
“There is a learning path in these issues, people have to be made aware. We cannot do the strategies alone. We managed to make the document, but it has to be a participatory document”, she justified.
EITHER The Government can also present “some novelties” in this matterhe said, “even with measures that can accelerate the regulation of both the cycling strategy and the future pedestrian strategy.”
During his speech at the opening of the congress, the Secretary of State said that the ENMAP will have as its motto “We are all pedestrians”, and will have as a goal that by 2030 there will be “a 35% increase in the modal participation of pedestrians”. trips” and “50% in the modal share of the country’s urban centers with conditions of universal accessibility”.
According to the official, the ENMAP action plan will have “five strategic vectors”: education, culture, planning, infrastructure and fiscal incentives.
Each of the vectors will unfold “in two axes of actionwhich in total are made up of about 20 specific measures with a view to promoting walking”.
In his speech, the Secretary of State considered that walking as a daily commute “has increasingly become the last option, only for those who have no other option”, recalling that in 2011 “only 16.4% of commutes They were done on foot.
Also referring to the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (PMUS), Jorge Delgado recalled that the Regional Operational Plans, within the scope of Portugal 2030, “have around 200 million euros for these purposes”.
Source: Observadora
