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The Director General of Industry and the Director General of Transport inaugurated with the mayor this automatic with five bases to release the bike using a card or by sending an SMS
The Director General of Industry, Energy and Mines, José Francisco Puche, and the Director General for Transport and Ports, Carmen Sandoval, opened with the mayor of White, Rafael Laorden, the public and free loan of 50 bicycles in the municipality, a initiative to encourage savings and promote energy efficiency and sustainable mobility.
Laorden stressed that White's natural heritage and environment are privileged that the people of this town are friendly to the environment, "to do so, citizens have the bicycle rental system that not only contribute to the conservation of environment, they also offer a healthy solution to displacement, healthier, cleaner and safer. "
The service has five bases in which distributed the bicycles that can be released for use automatically through an innovative joint system using a card or sending a mobile phone.
The residents of the town and visitors must register as users of the service in the Interpretation Center of Light and Water where they will receive the card and PIN user.
With this number, the user can access any of the bikes by sending an SMS through their mobile 600 124 125, indicating the number of bike, the lock where you are and your PIN number or using the card MYFARE (no contact) on the modules that exist in each of the five bases and requests data from the bike and the number of users.
To return the bike, only have to hook up again in the points with which account bases.
Bikes are distributed in five strategic areas of town are the Town Hall Square, the Museum and White Art Center, Museum and Interpretation Centre of Light and Water Sports Centre and the Mirador del Alto Bayna.
Benefits of using this public system
Bearing in mind that experts estimate that the use of 100 bikes for 30 kilometers a day to save energy equivalent to that produced by the burning of 46.4 tonnes of oil per year if the White service users to employ all the bikes their usual routes could prevent the emission of 0.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, improving air quality and the environment.
Furthermore, employing the same method, the person to replace its tourism particularly a bicycle lending public system to get around, can save between 500 and 800 euros per year on fuel, and benefit of physical activity, and contribute to sustainable mobility.
This initiative has a budget amounting to 113,871 euros from the Ministry of Universities, Business and Research through funds managed by the Regional Agency for Energy Management of Murcia (Argema) Strategy Savings and Energy Efficiency Spain (E4) and the Ministry of Public Works and Planning in their aid to promote sustainable mobility.
White is the ninth municipality that has a bicycle loan system after Ceutí, San Pedro del Pinatar, Los Alcazares, Alhama, San Javier, Totana, Mula and Cieza.
The University of Murcia has another, while Murcia, Puerto Lumbreras and San Javier (zone La Manga) are about to operate them.
This initiative is part of the Comprehensive Energy Efficiency and Saving the Region of Murcia developed by the Ministry of Universities, Business and Research through Argema, in collaboration with municipalities and the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDEA ), an agency under the Ministry of Industry.
Also, the Ministry of Public Works and Planning in 2009 allocated two million euros to develop policies to promote sustainable mobility.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Blanca
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