Atentamente me permito sugerir a los responsables del par vial que dentro de las obras de modernización sobre la Ave. Lázaro Cárdenas se resuelva el problema de dificultad en la vuelta de menos de 90º que esta frente al Restaurant Lenny's, Telcel y City Club.

Cuando se transita del centro rumbo al oriente y se quiere dar la vuelta a la derecha para ir hacia el Médano, la maniobra vial se complica mucho por lo angosto y forzado de la vuelta. Además, los vehículos que vienen del Médano, con dirección al centro, (los que dan vuelta a la izquierda) esperan la luz verde del semáforo en el carril central lo que no permiten a vehículos grandes dar la vuelta eficientemente (camiones repartidores de refrescos, gas, etc...) esto provoca que el trafico se haga mas lento.

Mi sugerencia es para que se demuela la punta de la banqueta y esta se redondee para ganar el espacio que la vuelta exige y el tráfico se agilice. Considero que este simple detalle es de muy bajo costo y de muy alto beneficio para todos; en otras palabras, será una acción de muy pocos pesos de parte de los responsables del par vial y de muchos aplausos de parte de la ciudadanía.

Atte. Ing. Fernando Robles Ussher

Condenarro

Los Cabos requires an immediate and even urgent urban plan where the priority is the citizens. It should be a tourist destination with a good, structured plan where both cities, San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas, favour their citizens, not their cars. The priority should be public spaces and easy mobility, without worrying about the short-term cost. Dr. Enrique Peñalosa, ex-Mayor of Bogotá, who was in Los Cabos last October 2, believes that these cities should be like models, developed models, of functional urban cells.

In his two-hour conference, titled “Mobility, Public Spaces and Sustainable Development,” Dr. Peñalosa spoke to the citizens from different social and socio-economic sectors of Cabo about his experiences as Mayor of Bogotá. He spoke about the problems he faced and the things he achieved during his term. He also spoke about the experiences he had in different cities around the world where he found similarities and differences in both high-income urbanized cities and poor cities with deprived urban planning.

In his vision, Dr. Peñalosa pointed out that the priority is the citizens not the cars. He did not mean that we should stop buying cars but that we should reduce the use of cars to a minimum. Obviously, in order to do that we would need public transportation that is efficient, quick, comfortable and accessible for everyone. In prosperous countries like Switzerland and Denmark and other European countries even people with high incomes use public transportation. It’s not because they prefer it or because they are conservationists. They use public transportation because it is less restricted. They don’t have to worry about time, driver stress, parking or narrow or heavily transited roads.
“Cities are for citizens, not for cars” is the phrase he repeated most often in the conference when he talked about looking for distinct alternatives to transportation. “The more roads they open, the more problems they create.”

What cities need are parks; places where citizens of all ages and walks of life can walk, sit, exercise and play sports. They need wide-open spaces for them, not for parking lots. The more parking spaces they create, the less space they leave for everyone: children, youths, adults, the elderly, the handicapped and the tourists who come to stroll around the city.

When talking about irregular settlements, he said they exist all over the world. The only solution is for governments to obtain large pieces of land in the outskirts of the city and create dignified living areas with parks, walkways, public transportation and planned, organized urbanization for its citizens. He also expressed the fact that no government can carry out radical changes in a short period of time. What is feasible is that citizens realize that they are responsible for demanding that projects get completed even if there are changes in administrations, parties or governments. The citizens are the same and their necessities are still a priority.

In his conference, he stated the necessity and obligation to respect the beaches and their accesses. In the question-answer session, it was brought out that they should not even be defined as public or private, just beaches. Everywhere in the world, the beaches are for everyone. It is the government’s and society’s obligation to demand free access to the beaches.

Dr. Enrique Peñalosa used Bogotá as an example of what he had done. However, the development plans for other cities do not necessarily have to be the same as Bogotá’s since each city has different characteristics: ground, climate, development and economic activity. What is a reality is that a city should be created and grow according to the citizens and their necessities, not according to the number of cars and the space they need.

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