Known for her cycling activism, the recently sworn-in councilor (PSB) wants to create a kind of “blitze” of cycle paths in order to map holes and dedicated parking lots in the city.
The journalist and architect, who has just settled in and is still making adjustments in her office at the City Council, says that the idea is to develop indicators and build a collaborative map of these obstacles, to then charge the city hall with (), of whom she is critical.
She calls the initiative a “citizen audit” and plans to create one of these per semester, with parks being the target of the next round. One of its main objectives is São Paulo, which is on the rise.
The councilor wants to consider errors in design, maintenance, width, removal of sections and also parking of cars on the cycle lanes. According to her, many existing roads were erased or returned differently after the city hall’s resurfacing program, for example.
His team states that, nowadays, they make this demand in a very specific or personal way, through messages to municipal technicians about specific locations. Now, there will be a research division in his office that would be responsible for coordinating the survey.
She says that her approximately 20 advisors should help feed the mapping, as most of them also commute by bicycle — she has been using the bus for about a month because, at 71, she had surgery on a herniated disc, but hopes to return cycling in three months.
As there is no bike rack in the Chamber, the team is parking the bikes in the space designated for delivery drivers. Falzoni wants to send a request to the Presidency of the Chamber, now led by Ricardo Teixeira (União Brasil), to transform part of the car spaces to which he is entitled into bicycle spaces.
He says that he has waived the use of the official car and driver and that he will try to return the remaining spaces that he will not use. “We want to get rid of this idea that active mobility is a left-wing thing. [Lucas] They have them [PL] The other day he came to ask me for cycling tips”, she says.
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