English project: urban mobility

Teixeira de Freitas and his urban mobility

Teixeira de Freitas finished the year 2013 with 43,858 vehicles running the streets and still receives daily traffic of neighbor cities South of Bahia, Northeast North Mineiro and Espírito Santo. Certainly there are many problems in the city and urban mobility that is needed improvements, one of the problems is the lack of accessibility for disabled people, such as the absence of ramps and special parking. Our group interviewed the counter Cleomir Silva, who is a disabled.

BT Cleomir which the greatest difficulty you have when driving your car in this city of Teixeira de Freitas?

The transit Teixeira isn’t one of the best to drive, lack of organization, lack of returns and contours, signs, crosswalks, finally the lack of a good design for urban mobility. The lack of respect of drivers contributes to the disorder as well. In my case I’m disabled things are worse, especially in relation to vacancies, or rather the lack of vacancies. Here in Teixeira has almost no vacancies for disabled, which hinders locomotion, go to the places and has no place to park or when the meeting is far from the establishments. There are places that possess, but often other non-disabled drivers use them, for inconvenience or lack of respect. It has a supermarket here that has vacancies for the disabled, but they are so far away from the entrance of the establishment that I can’t use them. 

BT Do you think that lack of planning rulers or owners of establishments?

Rulers, as the streets are public. So the obligation is the secretary of transit available vacancies. But in the case where the property offers parking, the owner must have not only a responsibility, but the consciousness that some people have restrictions for walking and provide these vacancies. 

BT Where do you think you should put more specific vacancies for disabled?

In the center and busiest places, where it has the greatest difficulty in finding available positions by the large demand for automobiles. 

BT Do you think that the improper positioning of motorcycles on the streets also affect your commute to establishments after parking the car?

 Yes, because my mobility is complicated, can’t pass and walk everywhere, many motorcycles are parked in inappropriate places. Not only motorcycles, but cars and bike also hinder mobility when stop in ramps.

  BT And what should be done in the city to improve the accessibility of the poor in relation to urban mobility, in your opinion?

Provide restricted to handicapped spaces and the construction of ramps. It is also important people aware and stop the stopping vacancies for the disabled and ramps. 

Encouraged projects

Mayor Teixeira de Freitas, João Bosco Bittencourt (PT), recently attended the Superintendency of CEF in the State of Bahia, the act of signing the contract the total phase of the construction project dreamed of the urban mobility system worth £ 191 million, which will directly benefit 21,152 families, 64,661 people engaged in the project and 155 thousand indirectly, through an agreement signed with the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC 2), the federal government. Inserted in the second stage of the CAP 2 - Paving and Qualification of Urban Roads, the project is the largest mobility and urban infrastructure in the history of Teixeira de Freitas.

The PAC provides in all stages of works to benefit the population of Teixeira de Freitas, works with sewage, paving of streets and avenues, orders of public transportation service corridors, structuring traffic, revitalization of squares and investment centers leisure, walking with accessibility, surface drainage curbs and gutters, rainwater collection system, 13.6 km of bike paths, walking trails, green parks, road marking and complementary works.

  

(Grupo 2)