• Measures: Colau wants to end the airlift with Madrid to fight pollution

The City Council of Barcelona undertakes as of Wednesday, when it will present the declaration of climatic emergency, that the councilors and all the personnel on the payroll of the Town Hall stop taking flights for journeys of less than 1,000 kilometers and whenever there is an alternative in train less than seven hours long. The resignation of the plane to destinations such as Madrid, Valencia, Seville, Bilbao or even Paris includes the movements of the mayor, Ada Colau, who will claim before the Government and the Generalitat that short flights are eliminated, provided they have connection from Barcelona with train that produces less polluting emissions.

"We want to open a debate and lead by example," said the deputy mayor of Urban Planning, Janet Sanz , who has defined it as "necessary and exemplary measure" that has urged to imitate other administrations and large corporations. "We know that the city is prepared to connect with the rest of the State with a high-speed network," said Sanz, who has assured that the train will be prioritized over the plane "as long as there is no very justified urgency." In that line, the councilor has asked the new central executive of PSOE and United We can enhance the routes by train.

In parallel, the City Council will defend before the Government and the Generalitat in the Climate Emergency Table that meets tomorrow that short flights from El Prat are suppressed and that the port and the airport adopt plans to reduce pollution. "None of these infrastructures is the responsibility of the City Council. It is the Generalitat and the State that have much to say and much to do," Sanz has said.

Among other measures, the City Council proposes that more fuel from aviation and navigation be taxed. Specifically, the municipal government of commons and socialists proposes that, as for airplanes, the kerosene bonus be repealed and, in the case of the port, that the Generalitat imposes the tax on large ships that it contemplates in its regulations.

In addition, the local government advocates that the environmental impact studies of El Prat, dated 1999, be reviewed, and that in the end the master plan of the second aerodrome in Spain be updated, which provides for pending extensions. It also suggests that parking at the airport be expensive to encourage the use of public transport to reach the terminals.

In addition, the City Council wants to reduce the ships in transit in the port, so it postulates that the Mediterranean be declared as a low-emission zone that contracts naval traffic and that cruise terminals drop from nine to seven. The Consistory is in favor of reducing the number of cruise ships that stop in Barcelona.

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