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For nine months of this year the inhabitants of the Antioquia capital, and the nearby municipalities, enjoyed the freedom granted by the local government by not applying the pick and plate as a restrictive measure of mobility.
Since the isolation began due to the pandemic, vehicles decreased in the city streets in the first months, although traffic due to excess cars on the roads was the order of the day during the close of 2020.
Speaking to El Colombiano, the secretary of mobility of Medellín, Carlos Cadena, admitted that currently there are “strange spikes in increased trafficThat would be happening because short trips, which before people made by bicycle or public transport, now are made by private vehicle.
In that same medium, the official was emphatic in clarifying that the peak and plate will not be decreed again with the same conditions in which it has been used in recent years and the first quarter of 2020.
The alternatives to the peak and plate in Medellín for 2021
Although there is still no official decree for next year, Cadena made it clear in the regional newspaper that “a new management measure may be implemented in 2021”To regulate traffic and create a new“ mobility ecosystem ”.
One of the options they are analyzing is to use the mobile phone to inform citizens which means of transport is best for them. There they will show routes, travel times, the vehicle in which they move faster and safer, among other variants.
With this, it will be easier to decide between using a car, bus, metro or other alternatives depending on the route; there would also be a “economic incentive to get out of the private vehicle“OR”pay ”to use it.
Why won’t they use peak and plate measurement more like before?
For Cadena, this traffic regulation model no longer has the same effectiveness in the city because it is proven that “there are many people who decided to buy another car of less value, or a motorcycle“, A situation that did not allow the reduction of the private vehicle but rather increased it.
The mobility secretary added that the measures should not only be restrictive or prohibitive but should be accompanied by a strategy that allows for other mobility options.
Other decisions about mobility in Medellín
Although it is not yet clear how the peak and plate will work for 2021, Carlos Cadena gave some examples of the model that could be applied to the Antioquia capital for the next few years within a more integrated system.
The two options they plan to implement are:
- A kind of urban toll in which people pay to circulate in the center of the city. This alternative is used in Singapore or Mexico to access the expressways.
- A dynamic parking fee on public roads. The same that is used in some cities in the United States to leave the car on the street. The charge will be depending on the time and place where you park it.
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