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Seville: sustainability policies of mobillity

Reduction of gas emissions and a decrease  in energy consumption  through actions related to transport.  Currently 13,700 people use a bicycle instead of a car every day. And there are 53,000 who use this method of transport during every work day.  Currently 7% of journeys in the city are made using a bicycle a bicycle, (7% of the modal transport number corresponds to bicycle journeys) and this has  and this has brought about a 2.5%  5%  5% reduction in reduction in reduction in  CO2 emissions.     
Seville, in 2006, had 12 kilometres of  120 kilometres of cycle paths and the impact of  this form of transport on the modal share  of journeys  was almost nil.  Of the journeys that were made in the city, 36.5% were made  by   foot , 36.3% by car, and 19.5% by public transport. Other methods of transport, including bicycles, accounted for just over 8% in total. In 2010, transport has been transforme transformed: urban journeys by bicycle and   by foot reached 44%, while the car has lost importance in favour of other methods, accounting for 32% of journeys.

The effect of the bicycle on the transport share in transport share in 2010: 27% of users on an average working day – around 14,250 – would have chosen to walk if they did not have a bicycle; 37% would have chosen the bus – around 19,500 as the management of Tussam recently stated -. Finally, the most significant piece of information: 26%, around 13,700 people, would have travelled by car. These figures come from before the restrictions on driving in the centre, and also the most recent widening of the network.     
In 2009 the reduction  CO2 emissions was eq missions was eq missions was equivalent to planting 36,000.000  trees.  Bicycle use during 2009 was equivalent to an energy saving  saving of 0.5%  the annual domestic consumption in the city of Seville.  Around 444.86  86  86 tons of petrol per year are saved from primary e tons of petrol per year are saved from primary energy.    2. 2.2. Pedestrianisation an Pedestrianisation and recovery of public space d recovery of public space      
In total,  around 97,903.85   metres squared have been recovered as spaces   Other economic and social effects achieved:   From an economic point of view, the recovery of public space for people has lic space for people has caused a considerable increase in economic activity in the city. In 2010, licences  licences to open businesses in pedestrian zones doubled. Applications to  lications to open businesses have increased, for example in  Avenida de la Constitución , where they have tripled since 2004, when it was  pedestrianised. And in the streets  pedestrianised more recently , calle Asunción and  calle   San Jacinto,  business openings have doubled since their pedestrianisation ….

• Citizen consciousness

The areas in the historic centre, which had been invaded by private vehicles, not only affecting the wellbeing of the inhabitants of the area but also having negative repercussions on the most emblematic buildings of the city, with the extreme presence of cars producing incalculable damage and threatening to what had made Seville one of the most special places in the world for its artistic and cultural value. Since 2006, the streets and squares of the centre began to be transformed, changing their appearance, thanks mainly to the pedestrianisation policy introduced by public bodies with the intention of transforming the city. It was the ideal moment for  Seville, starting with the most relevant vestiges of the city’s history, to become the modern and sustainable metropolis that its own citizens were beginning to demand. In this way, a new   concept  of arose that was based on valuing a series of emblem emblematic enclaves, like  Avenida de la Constitución, Plaza de la Alfalfa,  Alameda   or  Plaza de la Encarnación,  that would b that would b that would become the main exponents of this ecome the main exponents of this ecome …

El  bulevar de la Alameda   is the best example of this citizen  wareness.  Everyone agreed that the situation that this northern area of the historical centre found itself in was not ideal for the wellbeing of local residents. It was the residents themselves who, through participative budgets, contributed more than 500 initiatives that transformed the  Alameda. The result was satisfactory for everyone, since what had previously been an enormous car park, became a wide open space for pedestrians to encourage walks, union of cultures, and cultural and recreational activities for young people and the elderly. Benches were installed in the boulevard to encourage people to meet, fountains were constructed that emerge from the ground, and the addition of playgrounds make the Alameda a more attractive place, without losing the popular essence that has always characterised it.     • The inhabitants of Seville were intent on reclaiming the streets. The area made up of  Puerta Jerez and  Plaza Nueva as the first stage in the pedestrianisation plan, and Avenida de la Constitución as the epicentre of a model that was changing people’s conceptions of Seville. On 17 April 2006, the centre began to change. On that day, work began that would end up  retret returning this enclave to the people of Seville. The pedestrianisation  of the Avenida  Avenida de la Constitución  put an end to the 2,000 cars that used to pass by  the Cathedral every hour, damaging the stone, to the 600 tons of carbon dioxide that were emitted in the dioxide that were emitted in the area, and to the 7 area, and to the 72 decibels of noise  2 decibels of noise pollution that made the presence of pedestrians impossible. Everything changed, and what used to be a desolate landscape became a meeting place, made for the citizens, place, made for the citizens, which resulted in the increase in commerce in the historical centre.