The Strategic Infrastructure and Transport Plan (known by its Spanish acronym PEIT) as the strategic planning instrument passed by the Spanish Government in July, 2005 and with a 2020 horizon, amounts to an unequivocal commitment to sustainable mobility. Owing to their special nature, this Report describes four of the actions being carried out in Spain in this context, most of which are based on the experiences and initiatives the Government has been promoting for some years now. As a result, the concern over cutting down the impacts of road transport on the environment is faithfully reflected in the current process of strategic environmental assessment contained in the new Sectoral Road Plan, currently at an advanced stage of drafting. Furthermore, the concern over improving public transport has givenrise to a resolute boost to the construction of bus lanes on the State-run Road Network in the vicinity of several Spanish cities. In addition, theintegration of these bus lanes into the urban fabric is benefiting, in the case of Madrid, from a new generation of underground transport interchanges facilitating accessibility to the metro and urban bus networks. Finally, the determined boost given to the so-called "sea motorways" has provided an alternative to the sustained growth of road haulage in environmentally sensitive geographical areas such as the Pyrenees. The Report ends by presenting the scheme known as "Madrid Calle-30", which transforms the existing M-30 urban ring road motorway into a "street" permeable to city traffic and recovers or creates park areas with the associated environmental enhancement that involves, constituting an example of sustainable development. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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