Street for Children: The deadly resentment of children in Madrid will re -activate protests to ask for safe school environments | The weather and the environment

Last Sunday, May 11, Little Ian, six years, He hits a car on a narrow street in Yutara (Madrid), there was a school, died the next day. That dramatic fact has re -activated protests to ask for safe school environments with low cars, pollution and noise. If five years ago they would be broadcast School rebellion – Who cut the streets in front of schools on Friday month. Street for children. “This is a shame, until these misfortunes have not happened, the administration does not consider us seriously, but they will show us to protest,” said Yetta Aguado of Madrid.

Cars can cause many problems in schools: high levels of pollution – 99% exceed the NO2 levels recommended by the World Health Organization, According to a recent study by environmental scientists in action In 174 centers. Noise -related problems Lack of open space alreadyBecause they occupy many streets and sometimes, they also come on the sidewalks, making it difficult to walk safely.

Abuse is not the only risk associated with traffic, but they act as protests. In 2019, in Barcelona, ​​when a motorist ran off and killed HugoA five -year -old boy who left his school in Barcelona. Families are outraged at the school rebellion that expanded schools in the capital of Cat also and jumped into other cities. In 2021, at the age of six, Maria was submerged by the SUV in Madrid, which prompted the school rebellion to gain a lot of strength in the capital. In Amsterdam, Death in 1972 was a six -year -old girl He created a strong social movement, which ended filling the city of bike lanes.

“This Friday’s street cuts have been requested for a long time because it is an European day, but the news of abuse in Eutara will be reinforced to protest us, and even the girl hit For a car going to Madrid Municipal Police Director“, Veronica Martinez of the school rebellion says.” Pollution producing cars is also very bad and can greatly affect the development of children, but it looks less, ”he said.

This movement is still active in Barcelona. “We first made two weeks of traffic cuts, then we went to the monthly, and now we will keep them every three months,” said Mark Hurtado. “We will be 50 Barcelona schools. Now they are 15 or 20, but we want to continue calling the attention of this problem,” he said. At the highest point, more than a hundred centers from several Spanish cities.

They were in Madrid at the moment they reflect. “There are so many open fronts and sometimes it feels hard to get anything, so it is difficult to mobilize people. But we want to turn the impotence into a dynamic of protest and gives the movement more power,” Aguado said.

At the moment, several centers have been joined Street for childrenIt has the same goals. “This is a European campaign, which originates from the school rebellion and it has stated open streets with open streets, higher security, low noise and fewer cars for childhood. We will make two calls two calls per year in the spring and autumn from 2022, and this Friday is 80 appointments, and more than 550 people in Spain, there are more than 550 people in Spain. Can play activities. “Jophio Children’s School (on Fornillos Street) and the Republic of Venezuela Collegio (at Cersesinos Street), both in the area where they touched Ian,” they continue, “he said.

Corted streets and speed controls

Ana Vazquage has two children, one in Jophio and one in Venezuela, and in protests. “The outrage has brought back the existing anxiety. The speed on the street is already limited to 20 per hour, but it is not fulfilled. Most of the tasks can be done: Speed ​​controlls, cut the street during school entry and exit, change the pavement for cobblestones, install long shots …”. And this is an example that some centers in Madrid have achieved things.

The City Council of the Capital pointed out “It has improved from the last 350 school environment”, but the actions vary a lot: in some cases it can be painted only on the field, while some of the sidewalks or placed fences are expanded, but only in three schools have been selected. There was no resentment on a school day and “the atmosphere of both centers has already improved: there is a security fence in the child’s school and there are signs to the street. The same happens in the case of access to school, in which the space is expanded and the sidewalks were created”.

In Barcelona, ​​the municipal program We will save schools . “The problem is that this legislature has not made new actions in two years, or it does not seem to have been planned. This leads to continuing the protest,” Hurtado said.

Examples that everyone appears is London and above all, Paris. “London school has a program for pedestrians and is doing a little less. And Paris has gone further and has already removed the traffic of 500 schools,” said Gille Lopez, one of the school’s revalta drivers, now the Barcelona councilor in com. He developed that the initiative in Catalonia was studied as a law: “The College of P pediatricians of Catalonia submitted a proposal in Parliament, so that it would safely and less contaminate them in all Cat also in school.”