unpublished Government launches plan to use bicycles in three schools in the RM to encourage its use and lower rates of obesity
in Maipú, Calera de Tango and The Queen began the project in the United States increased by 15% in cycling in school.
The aim of the measure is to encourage healthy lifestyles from childhood, and contribute to the care of the environment and reducing congestion.
The initiative adds to the impetus to this mode of transport by the Government, which will increase by 5 times the existing bike lanes in the country today to 2014.
Promote use of bicycles as a means to transport the children, promoting physical activity and healthy lifestyles among schoolchildren, is the main objective of the pilot " Pedal to the College, which launched today Transport Minister Pedro Pablo Errazuriz , with Mayor Metropolitan Fernando Echeverria, and the Mayor of Maipú, Alberto Undurraga in the Lyceum of the commune.
The pilot is operating in three schools in the metropolitan area, in which were designed for safe bicycle routes to school to get a bike to school, escorted by guides prepared by the ministry and the school community.
"We want more Chileans use the bike. As Government in 2014 our goal is to double the importance of bicycles as a means of transportation in the country and the pilot goes in that direction, as it will encourage the use of the bicycle from children, "the minister said Errázuriz.
Secretary of State further stated that its portfolio is working to implement the union of the existing bike lanes, as well as construction of bicycle paths in several cities in Chile.
"In regions, our goal is to move from the current network 68 kilometers, 461 kilometers in all regions of the country. That is, for this government will build 393 new miles, which means it will increase by more than 5 times existing bike lanes today, "explained the authority.
also Echeverría Mayor stated that this pilot scheme is consistent with the objective of the Regional Government of Santiago to the city more friendly to transport. "The metropolitan area should have 690 kilometers of bikeways by 2012, 550 in the area urban and 140 rural. Therefore, the regional government has approved about $ 10,300 million for the construction and improvement of bicycle routes and public spaces associated with them, which will directly benefit over 500 000 people from 7 districts of our region by 2012. "
The Mayor of Maipú, Alberto Undurraga, also praised the program that began in his community, noting that "ride a bike is healthy, free and clean, but requires responsible and concerned about security." This initiative helps us deal Maipú the growing interest in citizen by this means of transport, contributing to the construction of bicycle culture " added.
Finally, the Minister recalled that the bicycle path Errázuriz school are given in support of the Ministry of Transport to Choose Healthy Living Programme promoted by the Government of Chile, through its ministries and services, and seeks to promote healthy lifestyles in the population Chile.
Pedal to the College Plan
This pilot seeks to replicate in Chile a successful program implemented in 2005 in 10 000 schools in the U.S., where he succeeded in raising the rate of bicycle use by 15% in cities that implemented, also contributing to reducing obesity and physical inactivity among other benefits.
a first step be implemented in three schools in the metropolitan area, to create the habit and then expand in neighborhoods, cities and regions.
These schools are:
- Nacional de Maipú Liceo, which called for 50 students, an enrollment of 1700 (from 7 ° to 4 ° average). College
- Lonquén Calera de Tango, which invited 30 students from an enrollment of 300 (from 6 through grade 8).
- Liceo Eugenio Maria de Hostos de la Reina, 30 students were invited to an enrollment of 700 (from 7 ° to 4 ° average).
To participate in this project, we selected children living within a radius of less than 5 miles from school. Within this radius, the authority and the school community identified meeting places, from where convoys of bicycles to school (and vice versa), escorted by adult monitors (two monitors, 10 children maximum).
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