Dénia has won the second prize in category 1b (SEMcv Awards for municipalities with 20.000 to 50.000 inhabitants) of the Eighth edition of the European Sustainable Mobility Week Awards in the Valencian Community (SEMcv 2023) for the redevelopment projects from Plaza Valgamedios, Calle Mayor, Pare Pere Street and Plaza Tenor Cortis. The Awards recognize "the recovery for people of a high-quality urban space." The awards ceremony will be next Wednesday, September 20 at 10:30 a.m. in the Assembly Hall of the Administrative City 9 de Octubre in Valencia.
The SEMcv 2023 Awards are aimed at city councils, organizations, institutions, companies, universities, industrial consortia (industrial estates, business parks, etc.), shopping centers, social centers (sports centers, libraries, etc.), non-profit associations and communities of neighbors that have developed actions in favor of sustainable mobility. University students who have developed school work related to sustainable mobility are also invited. All those who, in their field of activity, have carried out, or are carrying out, some good practice that promotes more sustainable mobility in the Valencian Community.
In the category of town councils, in the case of Dénia, the measures implemented by the City Council that have improved walking conditions have been valued, among others, implementing new pedestrian zones, thus definitively removing private traffic in the Valgamedios squares, as well known as the Plaza del Oeste, and the Plaza Tenor Cortis, to give priority to pedestrians and "recover this high-quality urban space for people, spaces so that Dianenses can socialize," he indicated. Maria Josep Ripoll, the Councilor for Territory and Urban Quality. In the case of Calle Mayor, the City Council has eliminated parking spaces for private vehicles. As for Plaza Valgamedios, the change has been radical, going from being a very small space, invaded by car traffic, to a pedestrian plaza recovered for people, with more street furniture, a playground and some original flower pots with flowers and plants, making the new square an authentic square, to socialize, walk and breathe and a little less polluted air, and where the children can now play.
The city of Dénia already received, in 2021, the third prize in the category of medium-sized cities, in the sixth edition of the Awards (SEMcv) for the pedestrianization of the Calle Marques de Campo. The prize was awarded for taking the step to "recover Marqués de Campo Street for people, with its closure to traffic and the elimination of surface parking, leading to the definitive gain of a central space of high pedestrian quality." The proposal stressed that a space in the historic center had been recovered for pedestrians and that a new boost had been given to the entire commercial and hospitality area, encouraging social gatherings and walks for many generations of Dianenses and visitors. Covid-19 and the urgency of gaining large spaces to walk and stroll provided the final boost to pedestrianize Marqués de Campo.
Award to entities, called City Council, that have developed actions in favor of sustainable mobility??? And Dénia is it? When sustainability means prohibiting the use of bicycles on Campos Street, or allowing terraces on the Diana Street bike lane, or neglecting other bike lanes where grasses grow freely???
Please explain it to me!
The funny thing is that Compromiso, in their electoral program, promoted a bike route through Marquis de Campo, now that they are in government they prohibit cycling through Marquis de Campo.
It would be interesting to hear their reasons for taking that turn in their program and prohibiting the use of bicycles in the city center.
Congratulations! All the “redevelopment” I see is sealing the city with concrete. The Valgamedios plaza has some benches, giant flower pots and two trees. Very sustainable. The world will be hotter, the cities too. We need green!! And where does the water go after the next showers? They could plant trees in the square of the old health center! I hope it will be another concrete square. Sustainable concrete of course.
Another prize that will help me make ends meet. Thank you
And because they have not yet built the promised park on the old site of the ambulatory, next door, Marqués del Campo. In that case they would have awarded at least the medal for the best Mayor's Office in Spain and part of Europe
Thank you Mr. Grimalt for running this city so well. Please do not use the six million euros of the prize on pending payments and use them to continue progressing the city, the citizens will be eternally grateful.
Watch the traffic on Calle Mayor, cars and motorcycles pass by at full speed at all hours.
And they are not resistant that they are allowed to pass, everyone passes as before.
Watch the traffic on Calle Mayor, cars and motorcycles pass by at full speed at all hours.
And they are not resistant to the fact that they are allowed to pass, everyone passes as before.
Will it help me pay the rent if they give that prize to Denia?