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Okay, so first of all, my name is Mara and I want to be clear that I do not agree with the arguments you have just said

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because we defend that the use of private car is much more efficient than public transport and the increase of pedestrianization.

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You have talked about that contamination is caused because of private car use,

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But this is not true as also personalisation causes a lot of tourism and tourists throw

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rubbish to the floor and that is another type of contamination, not only air pollution.

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Also, you have said that the Indian population and disabled people prefer using public transport

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but that is also not true because as it is said in the Ultima Aura newspaper, a group

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A group of disabled people have denounced the group of EMT buses in Madrid,

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that is the most important public transport service in Madrid,

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for not counting with the facilities needed for this type of people,

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like for example ramps for wheelchairs.

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And now my arguments.

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For starters, is public transport reliable?

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People who go to work in public transport need this transport to be very reliable,

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and this is not the case of a lot of countries like for example in Spain where according to the newspaper El País,

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93% of the comments made about punctuality are negative and also a study made by Biopu in 21 cities also the reports are negative.

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Therefore in Spain less than one third of workers use public transport because public transport is not reliable in terms of time

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time and they prefer using private cars. Furthermore, if pedestrianization increases in cities,

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how do local people get out of the city as they cannot use cars? Have you thought about

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these people? Well, these people will have to get out of the city, so you could think

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they could use public transport but that is not a good alternative as normally there are

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direct routes for example for going to work so these people usually by increasing

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pedestrian zones you are forcing people to move away from the city also i would like to talk

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about public transport as we previously said is often crowded but and this is when i think

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we all agree when we say that this is an inconvenience but it becomes a real problem

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in cases like with covid in 2020 because it is impossible to control so much people in such a

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reduced space so pandemics well a public transport is not prepared for pandemics but a private car

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use is so overall a pedestrianization has significant disadvantages that can cause

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social problems and regarding public transport numbers speak for themselves because

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The majority of the population uses private cars, so by implementing more pedestrianisation and public transport you are disfavouring the majority of the population and they won't agree to these changes.

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Also I would like to state that we think that people should be able to decide whether or not to write a private card. So this right should be for everyone. Thank you.