1 00:00:07,599 --> 00:00:21,109 I remind both teams that in the rebuttal terms you can ask questions, you are supposed to ask questions. 2 00:00:21,109 --> 00:00:34,469 Hello everyone, my name is Manuel and in my speech I will develop a series of arguments 3 00:00:34,469 --> 00:00:40,469 to show that private car use is much more efficient than the implantation of passenger areas or the use of public transport. 4 00:00:40,469 --> 00:00:45,469 Firstly, I would like to start by talking about the real efficiency of passenger incision when it comes to mobility. 5 00:00:45,469 --> 00:00:51,469 mobility. If a person who lives in the suburbs has to go to the city centre to work and his 6 00:00:51,469 --> 00:00:55,969 usual journey has been affected by a pedestrian area, he has to create a new route through 7 00:00:55,969 --> 00:01:01,469 which he will spend much more time than previously, therefore attending late to work. But he is 8 00:01:01,469 --> 00:01:05,469 not the only person who has been affected by this measure. Other people have been forced 9 00:01:05,469 --> 00:01:09,469 to modify their routes. This will end up in massive traffic jams due to the low availability 10 00:01:09,469 --> 00:01:13,469 of optional routes, and at the end, in high levels of air pollution. 11 00:01:13,469 --> 00:01:18,469 At the end, we realized that the higher the number of optional routes available, 12 00:01:18,469 --> 00:01:22,469 the fewer the number of traffic jams on the road, and at the end, 13 00:01:22,469 --> 00:01:24,469 less air pollution is generated. 14 00:01:24,469 --> 00:01:27,469 It's so simple, if a person spends more time with the car, 15 00:01:27,469 --> 00:01:31,469 it generates more carbon dioxide, which is harmful for people 16 00:01:31,469 --> 00:01:33,469 who get fat for the environment. 17 00:01:33,469 --> 00:01:36,469 This was quite remarkable when Manuela Carmena decided to pedestrianize 18 00:01:36,469 --> 00:01:42,269 decided to pay a strange grand via, created massive traffic jams, which resulted in hundreds 19 00:01:42,269 --> 00:01:45,269 of workers being retained for hours. 20 00:01:45,269 --> 00:01:50,269 Secondly, I would like to speak about the problems regarding public transport. 21 00:01:50,269 --> 00:01:53,269 The excess use of public transport resulted in its over-groundness. 22 00:01:53,269 --> 00:01:57,269 This not only led to problems of mobility, but also to the appearance of toolglasses 23 00:01:57,269 --> 00:02:01,269 that take advantage of this situation to steer people's will on this. 24 00:02:01,269 --> 00:02:04,269 And this is not something hyper-ethical which really occurs. 25 00:02:04,269 --> 00:02:06,269 This really occurs quite frequently. 26 00:02:06,269 --> 00:02:12,430 According to La Vanguardia, in 2019, there were over 1,000 strikes just in the underground 27 00:02:12,430 --> 00:02:15,069 train of Barcelona due to robberies and thefts. 28 00:02:15,069 --> 00:02:19,150 And to clarify that this percentage is not reliable due to the technology has passed, 29 00:02:19,949 --> 00:02:26,250 but also, according to El Mundo, it was noticed in December of 2022 that the states that a 30 00:02:26,250 --> 00:02:31,610 young woman was hospitalized after being robbed and assaulted in the metro of Madrid by several 31 00:02:31,610 --> 00:02:32,009 people. 32 00:02:32,009 --> 00:02:40,009 And this will happen to any of us, or to any of you, due to the insecurity of public transports. 33 00:02:40,009 --> 00:02:52,009 And finally, I would like to finish by talking about the different problems of pedestrian areas in cities. 34 00:02:52,009 --> 00:03:00,009 A big problem comes when problematic tourists come to cities and decide to destroy pedestrian areas, 35 00:03:00,009 --> 00:03:05,009 causing the damage to the public highway which then has to be paid by the municipality 36 00:03:05,009 --> 00:03:10,009 and as a result has to be paid by all of us because we pay the municipality. 37 00:03:10,009 --> 00:03:17,009 So that money in which the municipality pays the reparation is paid also by us. 38 00:03:17,009 --> 00:03:24,009 And also when an event is celebrated, the restaurant areas are enabled 39 00:03:24,009 --> 00:03:28,009 and people tend to throw grass and food remains to the streets 40 00:03:28,009 --> 00:03:35,009 which then has to be cleaned up by workers of the municipality, which at the end have to be paid with our money, 41 00:03:35,009 --> 00:03:43,009 the salary of those workers that cleaned up the streets in which people have been thrown food remains at us. 42 00:03:43,009 --> 00:03:51,009 For me that's all. The only thing I would like to mention before ending my speech is that comparing the benefits of private car use 43 00:03:51,009 --> 00:03:55,409 are for sure more significant than those that 44 00:03:55,409 --> 00:03:58,710 present areas and use of public transport cannot be. 45 00:03:58,710 --> 00:04:00,710 And that's it.