«More eco-friendly public transports and less private vehicles»: this is the conclusion of European Commission’s debate that produced the Leipzig Card, to point out European transport guidelines.
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Moreover, as we know, cities represent the territory where men and women tend to gather; we need an increasingly integrated urban policy that covers many aspects, from the environmental to the economic-social-technological ones.
Minimetrò of Perugia, for its technical features and for the services it offers, is aligned with the new ways of urban public transport, that can provide adequate responses, in line with European transport targets.
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Environmental respect is the key for the future and we cannot forget that transports have had the worst performances corcerning pollution for the last twenty years. European guidelines, with the Green Paper of 2007 on urban transports «towards a new urban mobility culture», followed in 2009 an Action Plan and in 2011 by the new White Paper on transports, have repeatedly stressed the need to find less polluting means of transport.
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In Perugia, the answer was Minimetrò, a mean of mass public transport, consistent with European guidelines, able to contribute, thanks to its technical characteristics of power supply, to the containment and reduction of Greenhouse Gases emissions, particulates’, carbon dioxides’ and nitrogen oxides’. Using public means instead of private ones, as well as improving air quality, helps improving life’s quality in a city with less traffic and noise.
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And this seems to be critical if you think about the awareness of citizens themselves to life’s quality, paired with environmental sustainability and urban policies. Just do an introspective analysis: what is the first element that makes us define a city liveable? Transports. Their efficiency, their capillarity, their ability to facilitate life; but also their integration with existing elements, e.g. the other means of transport and the road system itself, distinctive of a place. Administrations’ purpose is clearly plural: they do not want to limit citizens’ freedom, but they also want to reduce traffic congestion, improve the aforementioned air quality and avoid the exponential dilation of travel times. No less important are fuel savings, the ability to facilitate people with reduced mobility and lower incidence rates in traffic. Here’s the circle closes: once again, environmental respect improves not only itself, but also community’s well-being.
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An innovative mean of transport, such as the Minimetrò of Perugia, lies exactly halfway between Community policies, administrations’ and citizens’. It is a link aimed to give citizens a better transport experience in the urban fabric, to reduce public financial effort, and to elevate the Perugia to the empyrean of the most livable cities, reaching first the level of the other national ones, where sustainability goes through the enhancement of green areas, participatory policies and urban mobility, and then to reach the European ones, which have been reinventing in an eco-sustainable way for years. Perhaps we are still far from been awarded the European Green Capital prize, but the Minimetrò is undoubtedly the first step to create a healthy and sustainable urban environment.
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