Participating towns and cities

SpainPalencia, Spain

Population:
81.000 inhabitants
Department:
Enviroment
Contact:
Gabriel Rubi
C/ Mayor 7, 34001 Palencia
(++34) 670756802

Participation 2024

Find more information about Palencia here.

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Palencia organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK , taking into account the annual theme.

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MOVISOP
The Palencia City Council, reinforcing its commitment as a Smart City, has been developing a series of actions that are committed to reducing CO2 emissions, through, among others, the promotion of sustainable mobility, with special emphasis on the possibilities that currently exist. proposes sustainable mobility.
With this perspective, the Local Development Agency of the Palencia City Council (ADL) organized in previous editions the Palencia Sustainable Mobility Fair (MoviSoP), combining motivation and awareness activities, a technical day, and an exhibition
of vehicles, among other actions.
MoviSoP, in its 2024 edition, will be held from Thursday, September 19 to Sunday, September 22, within the framework of the European Mobility Week, with activities planned to promote sustainable mobility in collaboration with associations, companies and
entities, as well as actions framed in the 2024 motto of the European Sustainable Mobility Week: “shared public space”.
- Thursday, September 19: Training and Dissemination Day (Woodland Green Tour, Science Workshop, Dissemination Days, Art and Sustainability Exhibition, UVA Collaboration Presentation Experiment, Metro/Minute or Step/Minute Project).
- Friday, September 20: Shared Public Space Day (Orientation and cycling race, BMX and SKATE Exhibition or Contest, Bicycle repair workshop and Electric scooter repair workshop, Learn to ride a bike, Learn to drive an electric scooter, Children's Activities and other complementary actions to enjoy the space public released).
- Saturday, September 21: vehicle exhibition along Calle Mayor, Parque del Salón de Isabel II, Plaza Mayor, and Pío XII. Sale of sustainable products in shops and alternative proposal for gastronomic leisure (Promotions of commercial and hospitality establishments, Sustainable products market).
- Sunday, September 22: Mobility Day (Build your own car and participate, Crazy Cars and Free Bus)

Permanent measures Permanent measures

Palencia implements, planned or promotes one or more new permanent measure(s), which contribute(s) to modal transfer from private car to environmentally sound means of transport.

New or improved bicycle facilities
Improvement of bicycle network (creation of new lanes, extension, renovation, signposting etc) promotion
Develop public bicycle hiring and sharing systems planned
Improvement of bicycle facilities (parking, locks etc) planned
Pedestrianisation
Create or enlarge pedestrian streets implemented
Improvement of infrastructure (new foot bridges, pavements, road crossings, zebra crossings etc) planned
Extension or creation of new greenways planned
Public transport services
Use of ecological vehicles for public transport fleets planned
Development of new technologies to improve public transport implemented
The development of accessible transport services for all promotion
Traffic calming and access control scheme
Reduction of outside parking zones planned
Accessibilities
Enlargement of pavements planned
Mobility management
Permanent access restriction to city centres planned

Car-free day Car-free day

Palencia carries out a Car-free day and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.

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Friday, September 20: Shared Public Space Conference. A family race of electric bicycles and scooters will be held organized by the confederations of parents of school students and the city council of Palencia through the streets closed to the use of vehicles during the car-Free day , in order to promote the use of the bicycle. on the city roads and lose the fear of driving on them.
Find more information about Palencia here.