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Antonio Navarro stresses that "the aim is to increase the quality of life for all citizens and facilitate the integration of people with disabilities and enhance their independence"

The Director General of Planning and Housing, the Ministry of Public Works and Planning, Antonio Navarro, and the Mayor of Lorquí, Dolores García, today introduced the Municipal Accessibility Plan 2011-2025, which proposes a set of actions for improving urban mobility in the city, among which the adaptation of the old city streets to the needs of the elderly and disabled.

Antonio Navarro said that "the objective of this Plan is to ensure that all citizens, and especially the physically disabled, full urban mobility and accessibility to adequate space, transportation and public buildings, so that these infrastructure meet the dimensional, design and materials needed for this purpose. "

The director general said that "this diagnosis Lorquí mobility has taken particular account of the ancient and the old, more than topographical features present accessibility problems, with slopes greater than six percent."

Therefore, Navarro continued, "The Plan proposes implementing a set of actions in this environment, the construction of platforms with slip-resistant floors and side handrails on steep streets, ensuring mobility for the elderly and citizens disabilities. "

Also, within this Plan, the wording has received a grant from the regional government intends to undertake in the period 2011-2025, a series of actions that will range from the adaptation of urban spaces, natural and transportation, to Integration of sensory communication.

"The objective," said Antonio Navarro, is to improve urban mobility and conform to the needs of the inhabitants of the municipality ilorcitano. "

First, pedestrians

The actions are aimed at improving accessibility so as to facilitate the movement of pedestrians on urban roads, open spaces and access to buildings through the recess of curbs, construction of ramps as an alternative to the staircase, installation of pavement skid with different textures and color in crosswalks.

Among the improvement measures contained in this plan, also includes the adaptation of public transport systems to the needs of elderly or physically handicapped.

Also installed special flooring, lighting fixtures, tactile and audible signals to facilitate commuting blind or visually impaired.

Antonio Navarro said that "these solutions to improve mobility, including the Program for Elimination of Architectural Barriers and Urban Planning, contribute to improving the quality of life for all citizens and to facilitate the integration of people with disabilities and enhance their independence, a priority for the regional government is reflected through these performances. "

Source: CARM