“In Puerto Vallarta, we are not only concerned, but busy with having a sustainable city, and for this reason, we are urging everyone to participate in the planning program for the metropolitan area of the Bahía de Banderas”.
This was stated by Adriana Guzmán Jiménez, director of Urban Development and Environment, when participating in the panel ‘Tourist Mobility: commitment to sustainability’, at the event ‘Urban Laboratory Interconnecting Smart Cities. Mobility towards Metropolitan Well-being’, which she started in the neighboring municipality of Bahía de Banderas.
She emphasized that the city faces a growing problem in terms of mobility, which is reflected in complex road congestion that affects both inhabitants and tourists alike, and a public transport system whose capacity is exceeded by demand due to accelerated population growth, among other factors.
She pointed out that to the large number of tourists who arrive by air (this year there are already more than five million) or land, and more than 75 thousand who arrive month after month on international tourist cruises. In addition, today tourists go to places outside the tourist strip and it is a constant concern how to transport them.
Represented by Puerto Vallarta Mayor Luis Alberto Michel Rodríguez, the official highlighted that the planning program for the only interstate metropolitan area with a tourist vocation in Mexico includes large mobility projects, including two that have not been implemented for a long time.
This program is based on the need to create solutions in the short, medium, and long term, with works to be carried out in a maximum of 20 years, but some urgently, contemplating the connection to offshore populations, not only the coastal zone, to break social barriers.
“The next step is to take action, for the following administrative year the construction of the bridge at the Las Juntas intersection, as well as Av. Federación, which will give us a second connection route for this metropolitan area. These are actions that we all have to carry out, in this 2030 agenda with the objectives of sustainable development we are all responsible, we must put aside the paternalism of the government and all must be involved”.
Dr. Hugo Isaac Zepeda, International Urban Coordinator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), the agency that heads the project together with SEDATU and UN-Habitat, in this case with the support of the Government of Nayarit, pointed out that it intends to make each of the sectors aware of the reality of their territory and how together with the governments they can solve their deficiencies paying to have more connected cities, as well as aimed at the needs of future societies.
These forum-laboratories convene experts and academics so that the participants enter a catharsis fully attached to the reality of the environment and its needs, providing them with the theoretical and practical tools necessary for their solution, through the implementation of public policies attached to the Agenda 2030. The event ends tomorrow, Tuesday 29.
"In Puerto Vallarta, we are not only concerned, but busy with having a sustainable city, and for this reason, we are urging everyone to . . .
