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Commitment to a more Habitable city with 30km/h speed limit restriction in the City Center
Granada is the first andalusian city to restrict the speed in the streets to guarantee a more friendly and safer life.
The streets of Granada will be more habitable and safer from now. The City Council of Granada has developed a project to have a more paceful traffic from now on. It is the Zone 30 initiative that will reduce vehicle´s speed to 30 kilometers/hour in 973 streets. Specifically, as the Citizen´s Protection and Mobility council and Acting Major , Telesfora Ruiz, has said the plan, that will be implemented in all the city, is going to be implemented gradually. So, in it´s first phase, this limitation will benefit zone between Center, Albaicín, Sacromonte, Realejo, San Ildefonso and Haza Grande. In total, citizens will have, as the local council of Mobility called "paceful of traffic" in 973 streets of Granada.
Telesfora Ruiz, also, has marked that, of the total of benefied streets, 860 will have a limit of 20 kilometers/hour or 10.
The Citizen Protection and Mobility Area has started to install traffic signals to inform drivers about this speed limitation both at the beginning and the end of the benefied restricted zone. So, Ruiz has pointed out that the installation of the 28 homologated signals will beguin this month and will continue through August..
Granada will be the first city of Andalusia to apply a reduction of speed in roads that already was implemented in Germany in 1983 and answer to recomendations made by the European Commision and the stablished in Law 6/2014 of 7 april. It is a measure that resolve directly in Granada´s habitability, and will be a less polluted, safer for citizens, less noisy and more friendly.
The local representative has specified that, according to technical studies, reduction of speed from 50 to 30 kilometers/hour will decrease noise pollution inmediatly in 3 decibelios and reduce in case of accident the posibility of death from a 45 per cent to a 5.
Source:
Granada.org
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