Sitges is closer to having its first Mobility Plan and which has now entered its public exhibition phase.
The overall plan is a study of the issues and problems of mobility and transport in the town, and proposes 60 actions over the next three years, with the aim of ‘prioritising quiet mobility, walking, cycling or public transport, and making sidewalks wider and more accessible’.
Despite the delays there have been in its approval, the Plan has already entered the public exhibition phase and, after studying any comments presented, and with the approval of the Catalan Government (the Generalitat), it will then go on for definitive approval.
The origins of this document go back to 2015, when work first started on it. Until 2003, the Generalitat had not approved a law obliging municipalities to draw up these mobility plans.
In 2019, ‘we had it ready to take it forward’, explained Jaume Monasterio, the local councillor for mobility, but, with the arrival of the pandemic, it was decided to wait in order to add any modifications that resulted from it.
Monasterio also said that ‘every year we already allocate €150,000 to repair and make sidewalks more accessible, but having an approved Mobility Plan allows you to also seek subsidies from other institutions to carry out these projects’.
On 2 August, the Municipal Plenum approved the initial plan, with the votes in favour from the parties of the local government, as well as the PSC and the PP, with the abstention of Junts and Guanyem, and with Vox voting against it.
The initial approval of the plan by Sitges Town Council has already been published in the province’s Official Gazette, which opened the public exhibition period for 30 days: https://bop.diba.cat/anunci/3510464
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