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Good morning, I'm Martina Rodríguez and together with my team we'll improve why pedestrian areas and public transport are actually an efficient alternative to the use of private cars.

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For this, I will base myself in our three main arguments. These are the harmful effects of private cars, the safety and the accessibility.

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But first, you talk about the supposed inaccessibility of public transport to reach some places in Madrid.

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But for example, Madrid has 302 stations with a network of 294 kilometres.

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And we also come with 10,884 bus stations, so there's nothing about inaccessibility, because you could reach wherever you want.

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And where did you find those data?

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Also, at first glance, it seems like a huge cost to reach the pedestrian areas, but it's

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just an investment that we will all appreciate in the long run, because it saves us a lot

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of money instead of seeing it as a cost.

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Having said this, now I will tackle our first argument.

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These are the harmful effects of private cars. But first, before developing this argument, I would like to read a sentence said by the president of the Spanish Health Foundation.

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It states that 9 out of 10 people and 93% of Spaniards breathe air that exceeds levels of pollution.

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This pollution generated mainly by the use of cars is creating damage to the respiratory system, increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases,

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diseases, pulmonary mortality, bronchial asthma and cardiovascular diseases.

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This contamination is literally killing us, since according to the WHO, by 2050,

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particulate matter could generate about 3.5 million deaths here in Spain.

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Then, about our second argument, about safety, it is easy. Less traffic equals more safety,

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due to the fact that when we increase the use of cars, the risk of having a traffic accident also increases.

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In this graph created by the GDT, we can see the different numbers of deaths caused by traffic accidents.

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We can see that, for example, here in the Netherlands, there are much less accidents than in Romania.

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This is because the Netherlands comes with much more pedestrian areas than Romania has, so more pedestrian areas equals to less traffic.

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Finally, our last argument deals with the accessibility of public transport.

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Increasing public transport could be beneficial for the aging population, for young people, for persons without disabilities,

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that also said that we would have to adapt more the public transport for these

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type of people, but there's actually an adaptation nowadays for them, so you're going to have to adapt enough more.

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And also it would be beneficial for adults that don't have a driver's

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license, which according to the national statistic study are about 40 millions

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here in Spain, since every three adults who could drive, only one does.

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This is because they state that it is much more efficient for them to use public transport because of economic terms and time.

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Thank you for listening.