Portugal wants more children to ride bikes, skate and walk – Politics – RTP Madeira
In Portugal, cities like Lisbon organize their Kidical Mass on the weekend of May 14th and 15th, following the data of the international movement, but they have locations where they are scheduled for the following weekend and there is one case (Biscoitos, on Praia da Vitória, on Terceira island, Azores), where the initiative is scheduled for May 20, as available on the website https://kidicalmass.pt/
So far, 20 locations have already arrived with scheduled initiatives, but they continue to reach Kidical Mass, according to those arrested at Kidical Mass, who assume themselves as “an informal and spontaneous collective of volunteers – mostly mothers/fathers/children, teachers, activists sustainable mobility, – activists from the north of mainland Portugal and islands -, concerned with the dependence of the car on mobility and its development in the development of children”.
The Kidical Mass will tour circuits in different locations and are more than “a ride” on a bicycle, skateboard or scooter, or a walk on foot, they are “a manifestation”, underlined Rita Ferreira.
“The objective here is very clear, we have the need to do it. Reclaim public space for our children and with our children who are claimed”,
In concrete locality to the public authorities, the children who transit through safe passages and free of transit of road vehicles for the crossing, the safe routes for the 3 safe routes for transit per hour for the safe schools and streets and schools”, ” cycle paths, continuous and with wide crossings, on main roads”, “more public space dedicated to active mobility and to be playing effectively” and “road inspection”.
The Kidicals movement is inspired by the Kid Mass Crítica movement, born in the United States in the 1960s, precisely to promote and defend the use of the bicycle mainly in the most public space of displacement, as other more urban means of displacement in the public, in the man. , in the more urban displacement space, in man, than as an alternative to the car.
Massa Crítica promotes bike, skateboard, scooter or walking tours on the last Fridays of each month around the world, including in Portuguese cities, such as Lisbon (Marquês de Pombal square).
At Kidical Mass, the objective is “to give voice to children, the new generation says that Rita Ferreira’s environmental defense and after the large association of informal groups and country associations, mainly linked to the defense of the entire environment to mobility activism ” sustainable, the objective now is to follow the calendar of the international movement and carry out the initiative every six months, as in other countries.