- Measures. Almeida softens Madrid Central
Central Madrid has suffered so many ups and downs that Madrid people are somewhat skeptical of the new measures announced by Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida. The authorization for C vehicles to enter the central almond if they carry two or more occupants has been received with a division of opinions.
«That is a chimera. Who will control the number of car occupants? To fine and monitor there must be mobility agents and there is not one », complains José Antonio, retired.
From the Madrid Business Confederation (CEIM) and from the Affected Platform by Central Madrid, converted into Sustainable Madrid, they are satisfied that the merchants have the same access conditions as the residents and that “air quality is improved without harming economic activity ».
In the Los Mostenses market, merchants also welcome the changes introduced by the mayor. “We could use very well, really. Many people stopped coming to the center and sales fell, ”laments Carlos Álvarez, while breaking up a chicken.
A few meters away is Donis, a butcher, who hopes to recover part of the lost customers with traffic restrictions: «This is a very cheap market. Many customers lived on the outskirts and arrived in old cars . Let's see if they now return to the center ».
Health risk
Some have a heart divided between what is good for their business or for their health: «Selfishly for business it is better for people to enter freely, but for pollution it will be worse . Anyway, we can't all be happy, ”explains Antonio Molina, fruit bowl. Luis, who walks his two Chihuahuas in a stroller, is also delighted with the Madrid 360 plan: «I have come to the center with my wife and my daughter to do some paperwork in the courts and it would have been good for me to be able to get into a car» .
Not everyone thinks the same. Concha Ramírez criticizes that Almeida does not care "if Madrid breathe well or badly . " "I think he has not seen the demonstrations by the weather last week," he censures.
Fernando Hoyos, a janitor of a property in Gran Vía, not only is not a supporter of softening Madrid Central, but is committed to expanding it: «I live here and I am affected by pollution . They would have to restrict traffic completely ». Beside him, his friend Jaime Sierra considers that entering the center by car is a nightmare: «I have come by electric car and it has taken me half an hour to park».
The Platform in Defense of Central Madrid considers that the Almeida project invites to enter by car and motorcycle to the heart of the city and supposes «a regression in the fight for a clean air».
In this sense, the spokesman for Ecologists in Action, Paco Segura, sees a health risk that C vehicles access to the center, which account for 36% of the mobile park . In addition, it denies that these cars have the same emissions as hybrids, as the mayor said: "That is not believed by him, but the European Union is not fooled so easily."
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