Lisbon City Council approves the creation of a service dedicated to school transport
The Lisbon Grouping Chamber, an inclusive creation by the proposal of PCP Carris, a project dedicated to transport, with two teaching projects from the implementation school.
Unanimously approved in a private chamber meeting, the proposal aims to create “a public transport service for school-age children”through the municipal company Carris, allowing “replacing a significant number of trips with public transport that today are made in fewer cars, individual transport, less be it, be less in the city, councilor of PCP João Ferreira, in statements to Lusa.
“It is an important step towards the support for familiesis a form of support for families who also win with the existence of this service, therefore win as families, win the environment in the citythe majority are those responsible, with the two gains that we can propose”, the communist councilor, under the leadership of the Lisbon executive, under the leadership of the CDS-PP that governs without absolute.
Contributions from PSD, PS, Livre and BE
Within the scope of the chamber meeting, the PCP proposal received contributors to various policiesincluding from PSD, PS, Free and BEand “the overwhelming” of these suggestions were incorporated in most of the final version of the initiative, said João Ferreira.
As a result of what was approved, the Municipal Mobility Directorate in close articulation with Carris must begin this year “the study of a service to be created by Carris dedicated to school transportwith dedicated resources and/or the integration of existing services, in articulation with school groups and educational establishments, in the city, with a view to implementing a pilot project, which includes educational establishments in at least two cities, in September of 2022”.
measurements
Among the measures is study of the needs of routes and equipmentdepending on the result of the initial analysis, as well as the study of the synergies between a new school transport service and school and neighborhood mobility services, the survey of a fundamental investment for school transport in the city of Lisbon, with dedicated human resources and own vehicles.
“The study must take into account the of the territories and students in the clusters and must be able to cover complementary services “Structure jointly by the municipality, transport of parish and school groups”, reads the proposal, which should also study special circuits for inclusive education (students with special health needs) of basic schools of the 1st, 2nd. and 3rd cycles and secondary education.
The councilor of the PC reinforced that the study starts with the perspective of reaching the beginning of the next school year, in September of this yearand having “not yet the whole service for the entire city, but a pilot project involving at least two school clusters in the city”, adding that in the coming months they will also study which clusters they will be.
“This will be free transport, it is this idea that reinforced the communist.
At the Chamber meeting, or political defenders politicians also, unanimously, a proposal from a councilor for the independent coalition of Lisbon (PS/Livre) “Citizens for the coalition of the Academy of Amateurs”, centenarian who is at risk of association being evicted from its headquarters in Chiadosituation that had also been raised two weeks ago by the PCP.