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The green runner of the area of Seville communicates to ten municipalities through 70 kilometres
28/11/2011
28 November 2011
The advisers of Public Works and House, Josefina Cruz Villalón, and of Environment, José Juan Díaz Trillo, have presented the Green Runner of the Metropolitan Area of Seville, an initiative of the Board of Andalucia in which they have invested three million euros to enable a network of roads for vehicles no motorised of 70 kilometres. The network joins to ten municipalities of the metropolitan crown of Seville: the capital and Beds, San Juan of Aznalfarache, Mairena of the Aljarafe, Gelves, Dovecots of the River, Coria of the River, Two Sisters, The Palaces and Villafranca, and Alcalá of Guadaíra. According to Díaz Trillo, this green runner is born with the vocation to be “a real alternative to the no motorised trips in one of the most populated zones of Andalucia and, therefore, more punished by the traffic to engine: the urban agglomeration of Seville”. Cruz Villalón has stood out by his part the positive effects that this new runner goes to contribute in the strategy of the Andalusian Government to boost a sustainable mobility and alternative to the car in the metropolitan areas, contributing like this to the improvement the quality of the air, the health of the people, the energetic saving, the decrease of the traffic, the noise and the broadcasts contaminantes, between other advantages.