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Silence, please.

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Good morning, I'm Sofia and I'm going to do the first eval.

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Firstly, I'm going to start talking about the points of my team.

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Well, firstly, they talk about how improving the basin areas will cause less pollution.

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But this is not true, because it would just move the pollution from the center of the city to another area.

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Secondly, they talk about how public transport is acceptable, but it's actually not.

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I will talk about this in my third argument.

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And lastly, I'll talk about how public transport is more used when there is a better place in areas.

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But this causes mass tourism, like my teammate said.

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So I will tell you now why it's bad.

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So for my first argument, this is for touristification,

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and how it can worsen the functionality of public transport.

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Touristification refers to the process in which an area becomes a popular tourist destination.

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It causes one of the main negative effects in the public transport, which is the increase in crime rate.

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There has been, in lots of cities, an increase in the crime rate because of this recidivism process.

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For example, in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, London and New York.

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If we center in Paris, the police have reported that there has been an increase in this rate in the metro,

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especially in lines that connect tourist areas and stations close to tourist destinations.

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For my second argument,

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I want to talk about the duration of

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pedestrian areas can be a waste

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of time or even a health hazard.

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So, you know,

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Pasamitim is a population that lives

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in the north of the city and needs to go to the schools,

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jobs, or other places

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are going to waste time and the contamination

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is going to move to other places

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because of the duration of traffic times.

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Maybe this is not a problem for some,

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but I would like to give you another example.

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Yes?

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Don't you think tourism provides lots of benefits?

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Well, maybe in some areas, but if the tourism is very increased,

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it can decrease the level of the people living there.

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So, for my example, my grandmother once fell down the stairs,

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and she was with my parents.

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And they had to rush her to the hospital because she broke an arm,

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but she couldn't recover the whole mobility.

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Now, imagine using the Retiro of Madrid as a pedestrian area,

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that my grandmother was alone and had this accident here.

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My parents would live more or less here, so they had to surround all the area to get there,

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and then again, all again to the hospital.

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This would be a waste of time, and she wouldn't have to cover her whole mobility.

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Do you think it's worth it to reach the 12th participants for reducing a bit of pollution?

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I don't.

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So, for my last argument, I'd like to talk about how public transport is not such an

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efficient alternative for everyone.

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For example, according to the Metro Mali website, in 2020 they had approximately 64 stations

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that are not accessible at all, out of the 302 stations in the whole railway system.

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This means that 21% of the stations cannot be used by people with reduced mobility.

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It's true that some of these stations have escalators or elevators and lifts, which promote

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accessibility, but it's a barrier still for all people or for the physically disabled.

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In the case of Renfe, according to its 2021 accessibility report,

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of a total of 1,187 stations throughout Spain, 545 were not adapted for these people.

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This means approximately 43.4% of Renfe's systems is not adapted and is not accessible,

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which is almost half of the whole railway system in Spain.

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It is actually true that Madrid, Metro and Renfe have established a plan

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to create more accessible stations.

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But it won't be until 2030 that it's accessible

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for our citizens that we're talking about now.

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That's all from my event. Thank you.