At the Smart City Expo Latam Congress, city officials emphasize that Mérida is recognized for its work in management and transformation of the city…//
Mayor Renán Barrera Concha said he will work intensively with all the elements of society, so that Mérida reaches its greatest potential as an intelligent city with sustainable development.
Sustainable development and urban mobility are priority issues so that the city can move forward in an orderly, harmonious way, and always recognizing the voice of the community, according to the new mayor.
As part of these actions, the Municipal Planning Institute is working on a mobility plan for the city with a vision of 20 years, which is currently in its preparatory phase and in the coming weeks will go to the elaboration stage .
By the instructions of Mayor Renán Barrera, the director of the Implan, Edgardo Bolio Arceo, participated in the Smart City Expo Latam Congress, where he stressed that Mérida is recognized nationally and internationally for its work in management and transformation of the city. Mayor Barrera Concha is hoping to develop new actions and strategies to support both issues.
Bolio Arceo participated last Wednesday in the meeting, which took place in the city of Puebla from 11 to 13 September and in which representatives of the country and other parts of the world presented programs and progress of the cities to transform and improve the urban reality.
There, he presented Mérida’s advances in terms of urban mobility and also the initiative for the prosperity of the city, which is being worked in collaboration with the UN Habitat program.
“Our participation in the Congress was about our collaborative alliance with the European Program of International Urban Cooperation, where I presented the advances in the Urban Mobility Plan,” he pointed out.
In the case of mobility, Mayor Renán Barrera’s commitment is to draw up a plan with a 20-year vision and of which the preparatory phase has just been completed, which was presented at that meeting.
Bolio Arceo stressed that all the progress has been through a participatory process, with the contribution of the federal, state and municipal governments, and different groups of organized civil society, the private initiative and groups such as Ciclo Turixes, Uady, Alianza de Camioneros, to name a few.
He anticipated that shortly they will go to the next stage, which is the development of the plan and in the medium term will conclude to make way for a broad citizen consultation before presenting the final version.
“It is a “plan of plans”, from which strategic and specific projects for the development of Merida will derive, with our partners or main allies that are the International Urban Cooperation Program of the European Union and the German Agency for International Cooperation, with whom we have been working for 8 months,” he explained.
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