Pedro Sosa, IU-Green councilor in the municipality of Lorca denounced the abolition of school routes within 3 km from the Ministry of Education, emphasizing the danger in many cases children running on high traffic areas without sidewalks, with ditches and low visibility.
Sosa emphasized that it is unacceptable that children have to walk about 3 miles to go every day to their school when they could do so far by bus comfortably and without suffering from any life threatening.
Similarly, has highlighted the unfairness that is being created among students because of their residence, and the difficulties they will find families to reconcile work and family life, by interfering with this new cut education support of parents' schedules.
Since forming, they fear that eliminating these paths encourage school truancy, have warned that the measures to cut education to which we are accustomed popular governments in recent times, will adversely affect companies that engaged in school transport, to whom the CARM should the amount of 6 million, for payments in May, June, September, October and November last year.
Thus, Sosa has claimed that educational policies are being followed in this community, apart from making the conditions of some families and endanger the safety of children, put the bankrupt companies that have traditionally been responsible for transportation of schoolchildren.
According to the councilman, this is the way to create jobs is encouraging that the Popular Party.
Also, the IU-Green councilor has highlighted the clear state of deterioration that shelters have to wait for the bus, accusing city officials of neglect in these matters, of which you pay a maintenance is not performed, and already proposed this political group in a motion last fall, in order to improve the overall aesthetics of the city.
In another vein, Pedro Sosa has announced that his group will file a motion at the next full City to denounce the grave situation of air pollution are living in the municipality, which can have very serious effects on health citizens and certain vulnerable groups.
Sosa recalled that full unanimously approved a motion to IU-Green last October (which was not the first) in which it was agreed that the city of Lorca would be directed immediately to the environmental authorities of the CARM and the state , showing concern about data brought the annual report of the European Environment Agency, and why we are contributing regularly measuring station of Lorca, in order to take such measures as may be necessary to reduce the levels cited ozone pollution and its impact on the health of Lorca.
In the same agreement plenary also agreed the council's obligation to inform the population through information boards every time you exceed the established legal thresholds of tropospheric ozone.
Sosa explained that according to the European report cited, 169 legal threshold exceedances of the ozone in Spain in 2010, 127 occurred in Lorca, which shows IU-Green for the environment councilor is showing responsibility in this matter, or sensitivity to the serious public health problems that may generate air pollution, especially in the elderly, children and people with respiratory problems, so the left-wing formation proposed in this new motion that the Mayor appropriate immediate stop to the environmental council, appoint another person of his political group-conscious enough to address this issue.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca