Limitations in Spain, especially in large cities, continue to increase over time and, according to the General Directorate of Trafficthis trend will intensify in the coming years, as has happened with low-emission zones in municipalities like Madrid, Barcelona or Valencia, among others.
Precisely, and with reference to the aforementioned context, Father Navarrocurrent director of the General Directorate of Traffic, launched a serious warning during the latest Global Mobility Call event, organized in the capital of our country, which is related to individual vehicle use.
What is Father Navarro’s warning?
The highest representative of the DGT warned the population that in the future, motor vehicles will be “shared use” or “must not be”, a message that left no one indifferent and which perfectly sums up the idea of decongesting traffic in large cities in the short term and trying to further reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
Pere Navarro himself also highlighted the significant number of daily vehicles that constantly move with only one person inside and assured that this situation is not sustainable and that it is necessary to carry out a “Change of mentality” to “encourage high vehicle occupancy”.
“We need to make a collective change in mentality that allows us to encourage a high vehicle occupancy rate, because We can’t afford to move 1,500 kilos every day to move a single person. Increasing vehicle attendance is a challenge and a necessity,” underlined the director of the DGT.
Some worrying data
Pere Navarro explained that “the future of our cities is played out in the area of mobility” and this concern is due to the excessive use of vehicles, because in the 85% of them There is only one person inside going to their workplace.
“Cities that know how to manage this well will attract talent and investmentand those who will not be completely trapped by noise, traffic jams, accidents and pollution. We see it with the forecasts for parcel shipments for Black Frida, the Christmas campaign… what is clear is that the future of cities lies in the field of mobility,” he concluded.
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