The Social Welfare Area of the Municipality of La Laguna and the community development association Tenerife por la Bici have signed a collaboration agreement to launch an adapted tricycle service that, until the end of the year, will allow the launch of more than 60 individual, free and guided routes for the elderly and people with disabilities in the municipality. This project wants to increase the offer of healthy leisure and facilitate a sustainable mobility model that includes everyone, also making non-polluting modes of transport visible that, regardless of individual capacities, help the municipality to move towards a more sustainable model and beneficial to health and the environment.
The project, named Bike for everyone, will take place from this month until the end of December and will involve a municipal investment of almost 10,000 euros. It will have the collaboration of a team of volunteers, who will receive specialized training, also in first aid and road safety, and who will be in charge not only of pedaling and adapting the routes to the demands of the users, but also of They will be involved in the accompaniment and in propitiating a different day.
“With conversation, learning and sharing life experiences, they will help encourage these people to go out and socialize, thus intervening in one of the most pressing problems today, that of unwanted loneliness and its impact on health and individual well-being, while adding a new experience to our programs to promote inclusion and healthy aging”, highlighted the Councilor for Social Welfare and Sustainable Mobility, Rubens Ascanio.
In addition, Ascanio recalled that this project “will allow us to advance in inclusion and add active agents to the new municipal sustainable mobility model, promoting volunteering and, at the same time, raising awareness about the benefits of using more sustainable modes of transport”.
Among the novelties, this project goes beyond previous actions, focused on people with reduced mobility and the elderly, and incorporates disabilities that, although they do not affect motor skills, do affect balance or psychomotricity, for which makes it difficult for a person to use a bike individually.
