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Recommends To The Government The Promotion Of Networks Of Soft Modes To Be Integrated In Urban Mobility Plans, Within The Framework Of Decree-Law No. 380/99, Of 22 September, And The Law Of The Land Transport System, Approved By Law No 10/90 Of 17 De M...

Original Language Title: Recomenda ao Governo a promoção de redes de modos suaves a integrar nos planos de mobilidade urbana, no âmbito do Decreto-Lei n.º 380/99, de 22 de Setembro, e da Lei de Bases do Sistema de Transportes Terrestres, aprovada pela Lei n.º 10/90, de 17 de Març

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DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 152 /X

It recommends the Government to promote networks of soft modes to be integrated into the

Urban Mobility Plans, provided for by the Law of System Bases of

Land Transport, Law No. 10/90 of March 17 and the Decree-Law No 380/99

Portugal is located in the average of the European countries in relation to the motorization rate but

simultaneously is of those with lower rate of mobility. What appears to be

contradictory, in fact it is not. The paradigm of travel in road mode and in

individual transport led to a situation in which the Portuguese takes time in

average more time than other European citizens to travel the same path and,

perhaps by this, the average daily dislocation index is lower.

This usually amounts to a less effective transport system (it serves less the

wishes / mobility goals of the people) and less efficient (serves worse a

mobility of people, with the means / resources available). This type of characteristic

of the transport systems has a fundamental impact on the societies of our days:

reduces the productivity of urban societies and adds to the waste and the about-

consumption of increasingly scarce resources (space and time).

In Portugal, the profile of the transport sector incorporates so only all that there is worse

in an unsustainable mobility. Overwhelming preponderance of the road mode of

transport in more than 80% of the displacements of people and goods, debility

huge in the development of more sustainable transport systems

(namely, a ratio of (in) energy efficiency to the contrary, while

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trend of evolution in passengers and in goods), some transport operators

completely disjointed with each other and between them and the policy makers by the

definition of sustainable mobility policies, at the local and national level and a system

of ever more expensive public transport, losing all the years users to the

individual transport in the realization of everyday mobility, essentially in the

large urban areas.

Add to these characteristics one another that, in comparison with other countries

Europeans, certainly puts Portugal on the tail of the European Union: the almost non-existence

of infrastructure networks for the movement of smooth modes of transport, not only

as a potentiating factor of its use in leisure pathways, but mainly as

an incentive for an alternative mode of transport, or for individual transport,

either to the public transport itself. From this point of view, the fray diversification

of the existing transport networks in most of our cities-there is not a single

cyclable network in operation, in any Portuguese city, which cross, by

example, the respective urban centre-it is more a factor of worsening the weak

quality, especially environmental, that characterize transport systems

existing in Portugal.

It is therefore a matter of urgency to complain about the public powers, responsible for the

administration of the "common public thing", decisions that compete for a larger

environmental balance of transport systems in Portugal, and which work as

levers of intervention of public powers for the regeneration and improvement of the

quality and sustainability of the urban way of life in our cities. In that sense,

the introduction of networks of soft modes in cities (dedicated infrastructures for the

circulation of bicycles, skateboards, roller skates or other modes of individual displacement), in

articulation with the defence of an urban green structure, would constitute an opportunity

for a new mobility profile in Portugal, more sustainable and the next duma

better quality of life that one understands to defend.

At the same time, the transport sector continues to be in Portugal the main

responsible for the aggravation of the emission of gases that contribute to the effect of

greenhouse (GEE). Second statements by Ana Paula Vitorino, Secretary of State for the

Transport: " The transport sector has increased the emissions of gases with effect from

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greenhouse by 110 percent, between 1990 and 2010 ". This was the sector that grew the most in

terms of emissions. In 1990, it was anticipated that this increase would be set to be set at 25 per

one hundred in 2010, but the projections point now to the 33% ".

The baseline scenario for 2010, presented by the latest revision of the National Plan

for Climate Change (PNAC), January 31, 2006, gives an account of a

increase of 39% of GHG emissions, when Portugal had committed to

an increase of 27% between 2008 and 20012.

This framework of evolution should merit the greatest concern. On the one hand because if not

is to be waged this increase in GHG emissions, Portugal will see in the eminence of

plummeting between one billion and two billion euros as penalization by the

non-compliance with international commitments. On the other hand because a lot of the

fragility of the Portuguese economy stems from its energy inefficiency, from its

dependence on the import of fuels, particularly for the sector of

transport.

Urge therefore to change the development paradigm, also in the field of

mobility and the transport of people and goods. The promotion of energy efficiency must

be one of the objectives to be contemplated in the regulation of the Bases of the System of System of

Land Transport; the improvement of mobility rates should be the goal

advisor to urban planning, which entails putting on top of priorities a

efficiency of public transport and to recognize the alternatives of locomotor modes

covering modes that today are mainly associated with leisure.

The pedonal pathway, the use of soft modes of transport, such as the bicycle and the skateboard,

represent already today a significant percentage in displacement in urban pathways.

However, the lack of its recognition, by absence of reference in the tables

normative of the planning instruments of the territory means that the Plans of

Mobility included in the Municipal Directors plans do not include the prediction of networks

of soft modes of transport.

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It matters to bridge this absence that has as a first reflex the lack of

consequent regulation of Decree-law No. 380/99 of September 22, in the sense of

creation of networks of soft modes in the urban Mobility Plans.

Article 85º of Decree-Law No. 380/99 of September 22, amended by the Decree-Law

n. 53/2000 of April 7 and by the Decree-Law No. 310/2003 of December 10,

enshrines the "definition and characterization of the area of intervention" in the Directors plans

municipal of the "urban, road networks, of transport". However, your article 86º that

contemplates the documentary content of the municipal directors ' plans referred, in paragraph 3, to

regulation of the remaining elements that accompany them for later porterie.

Although the amendments made by the Decree-Law No. 310/2003 of December 10

have included some adjustments, the diploma continues to be omitted in relation to the

urban mobility networks.

By its side the Portaria 138/2005, of February 2, which is intended to fix the

" elements that must accompany each of the municipal planning of planning

territory " does not contemplated the regulation of Mobility Plans.

Thus, the Parliamentary Group of the Left Bloc presents this Project of

Resolution, in the sense of improving the quality of urban living, contribute to the

safety of users of soft transport, encourage locomotor modes

alternatives to individual motorized transport, and in that way improve the effectiveness and

efficiency of transport in an urban medium.

In the applicable regimental and constitutional terms, the Assembly of

Republic, brought together in plenary, resolves to recommend to the Government to proceed to

suitability of the regulation of Article 86º of the Decree-Law No. 380/99 of 22 of

September in the sense of creating a regulatory framework of the Mobility Plans of the

Municipalities that behold the Transportation Networks of Transportation Modes.

Palace of Saint Benedict, September 22, 2006.

The Deputies and Deputies of the Left Bloc,