This autumn 2009 is a turning point on climate change,
that between the 7th and 18th December will make decisions
shape the overall framework of the commitments assumed by the different
states of the world to combat this serious problem.
At the Summit
United Nations Climate Change to be held in Copenhagen,
decide the form of agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol once
it has expired at the end of 2012.
In this context, the X Conference held in Lorca Railway
reopening the rail link between the Region of Murcia and Andalusia.
These State Conference in Defense of the Railroad are scheduled in Lorca
because this city a prominent location in human relations, and
territorial, between the Mediterranean and Andalusia Corridor.
Almost
25 years who missed the train connection leaving Almendricos-Guadix
Region of Murcia and the Mediterranean corridor, with no railway line
allow
sustainable transport development Almería, Granada, Málaga,
Algeciras and the rest of Andalusia.
The nine previous annual rail journeys were made in
Salamanca, Guadalajara, Madrid, Valencia, Torrijos, Slate, Zamora,
Canfranc Barcelona, demanding concrete solutions to improve
basic Spanish rail network, and the Pan, and address
the very different environmental, social and economic factors that converge
on the railroad.
Have addressed the role of rail within the multimodal system
integrated sustainable transport on the backbone, rebalancing
and land use planning, the reopening of railway lines
mistakenly closed in the early 1980 as almonds, Guadix
Astorga-Plasencia and Valladolid-Ariza, tram recovery
abandoned in the 1960 and 1970, the impetus to train
Nearby, the promotion of rail freight, the
investment in infrastructure for transportation criteria
sustainability, social cohesion and human development, maintain
railway as a
universal public service accessibility and affordability, as
infrastructure and transport services are owned and operated
public conduct strategic environmental assessment of plans
programs and infrastructure projects for transport, promote it
rail (train, tram, metro), along with walking and
cycling, is the backbone of the system
transport, upgrading existing railway infrastructure,
providing them with proven technology and capacity to support speeds
averaging 160 km / h, making the road splits and
electrification of lines that are suitable to increase the use
railroad, avoiding speculation and disinvestment processes
railroad stopping the sale of its real estate;
keep stations in the center of cities to promote
maximum accessibility to the train, including the establishment of new stations
the centers of towns without rail service, and avoid situations
as the derivative of the "All AVE" where there is only propaganda,
economic waste, regional imbalance and decisions
against the public interest.
The motto of the State Coordinator in Defense of Public Railway
"For a social and public rail, safe and sustainable born between
other things, the need for society to emulate the principles of
nature and adapt to them rather than violate them, so that
worth of all that is available in their immediate environment, and book
travel and travel great distances to meet those
needs that can not be satisfied with the closest resources.
All people, wherever they live, must be guaranteed
transportation service at an affordable price, regardless of
purchasing power, mobility ability, gender and age.
This service
universal, now can be reached only by foot, bicycle and
train, the main modes of sustainable transport system.
* Program *
* Friday 6 *
* 18h45 Registration and Documentation *
19.30 * Opening Ceremony *
20.00 * Paper * of * * Pedro Costa Morata Murcia recognized environmental
throughout Spanish society, climate change, Summit
Copenhagen, rail and sustainable.
The talk will be followed
sucorrespondiente debate.
21h30 Dinner reception * *
* Saturday 7 *
9.30 * Round Table: "Reopening of closed lines by mistake?" *
- FAVEMUR
- Railway Platform in Defense of Granada, Almeria and Malaga
- Save or train
- Provincial Coordinator of Toledo
- Forum for the Via de la Plata Train
- CREFC
- Platform neighborhood to use the old path
Murcia railway between Dolores and Zeneta
11.15 * Coffee *
11.45 * Paper * José Luis Ordóñez, State Coordinator in Defense
Public delFerrocarril, the effects achieved by the coordinator
in the reality of the Spanish railways.
12.30 * Paper * of * * Joaquin Contreras, Plataforma Pro-Burial of
Tract of Murcia, on the neighborhood movement and sustainable transport
in the Region of Murcia.
13.00 * Paper * Paco Latorre, Platform for a TRAM Alicante
public "about the public management of urban rail (tram).
14h00 Lunch
16.30 * Paper * Fernando Gómez, coordinator Xeral of "Save or train,"
about "rail in our past are the rails that will move us
the future: Galicia can not miss this train. "
* Paper * Manuel Martín Lorca Biciudad Association, member
ConBici coordinator on "Bike to the train."
* Paper * Javier Cobelo, Ecologists in Action, on "2001-2009: Eight
years of struggle sustainable citizen by a tram in Alicante, a
tran-rail commuter transport ecologically and socially
sustainable.
Table 18.30 * for * * discussion * of the papers.
20.00 * Parade * playful and festive protest, leaving the
Huerto Ruano house, runs Avenida Juan Carlos I, Calle
Floridablanca, Glorieta de San Vicente, Loch Street, street Alparchanes
Calderón and square, all within the own Lorca.
21.30 * Dinner *
*
Sunday 8 *
9.00 * Discussion and making organizational arrangements.
Galician proposal for
XI implementation of the Railway in 2010 *
Station Lorca 10.30
10h42 Departure from the train to Almendricos and further discussion in
train itself.
11h03 Almendricos Station
* 11.15 * Public event with a call to the press.
Receiving
acogidapreparada
by almond, delivering bags to laantigua-fashioned cupcakes
deployment of local banner.
Almendricos parliaments and
State Coordinator.
Delivery of certificate and small gift in honor of
several people Almendricos-Guadix railroad.
Visit to the track where
years up the road.
12.30 Travel to the urban street station by station, street Salobre
callePatrón and Antonio Machado Street to reach the small square of the local
where social Almendricos offer a snack.
13.30 * * Closing ceremony with a reading of * "Manifesto of Lorca" .*
14:15 Almendricos station.
14h22 Train leaves from almonds to Lorca.
14h42 Station Lorca.
Parallel activities photo exhibition (in preparation)
Venue of the conference: * Casa Huerto Ruano *
The State Coordinating Committee in Defense of Public Railways is a network of
platforms, forums and civic networks spread throughout the territory
Spanish, promoting sustainable transport based on rail
next to the walking and cycling.
These modes
transport, greener, are considered essential to generate
a multimodal and comprehensive.
The proposed transportation system
increase accessibility to goods, services and contacts with
others, reducing at the same time, commuting.
Many aspects of daily life are associated with transport
studied and analyzed by this group of citizens' in
proposal and discussion sessions that develop annually.
It takes
consideration, among other things, the huge and inefficient energy consumption
of cars, trucks and aircraft, the large amount of greenhouse
greenhouse climate change triggers that emit their engines,
air pollution generated by mining vehicles such health
people, noise, accidents, land occupation, the
concentration in large urban areas depopulated leaving the world
rural, oil depletion, etc.
Source: Murcia en Bici