Activities of Giuseppe FERRANDINO related to 2021/2075(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the challenges for urban areas in the post-COVID-19 era
Amendments (25)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Emphasises the key role that workers in the transport sector have played during the most difficult moments of the pandemic to ensure that essential supplies to urban centres, including those of medical supplies and personnel, have remained open supplies of the most basic items, including medicinal products;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Underlines that transport workers in cities have higher exposure to the risk of infection than the rest of the population of working age, notes that these challenging circumstances and changes in trajectories has put strains on the entire urban supply chain;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Stresses that urban mobility must be aligned with the Union’s climate and environmental objectives and be more fair, inclusive, accessible, affordable and safe, whilst also promoting active and healthy lifestyles;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the need for local authorities to reengineer public transport in order to ensure safe, healthy and environmentally sustainable commuting options and to complement public transport with on-demand and shared transport services; highlights that EU, national and regional awareness-raising campaigns on the safe use of public transport would help and encourage citizens to regain trust in collective passenger transport;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes that public transport systems have struggled to regain market shares in terms of users once restrictive measures have been softened or removed;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Highlights the importance of awareness-raising measures for passengers to regain trust in public transport after the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Stresses that public collective transport remains the backbone of sustainable transport, moving large numbers of passengers over long distances;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for a revision of the Commission guidelines on developing and implementing sustainable urban mobility plans to include a new objective to improve the resilience of mobility systems in case of rapid fluctuations in mobility demand; calls for those urban mobility plans to foster multimodality and to tackle some side effects resulting from overconcentration of the population in certain urban areas, such as congestion and rising transport costs, throughout, for instance, balanced socio-economic arrangements to ensure there is no discrimination against EU citizens;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on the Commission to better integrate the EU road safety targets and actions into the guidelines on the sustainable urban mobility plans by monitoring and promoting best practices, including establishing an indicator on using EU funding for improving urban road safety effectively;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Notes that new personal mobility devices (e-scooters, electric bikes, among others) raise a number of serious concerns related to the safety of the devices themselves, their safe use, as well as to the lack of safe parking spaces in urban areas; calls on the Commission to issue guidelines for Member States on managing these safety aspects, including traffic rules; reminds the Commission and the Member States of the need to implement EU and national awareness- raising and education campaigns on the safe use of micromobility devices, with a particular focus on vulnerable road users and the redesigning of urban public spaces to include safe parking areas for these devices;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Calls on the Commission, in view of the upcoming revision of the Urban Mobility Package, to promote synergies between safety and sustainability measures in urban areas; calls, in this regard, for the reprioritisation of transport infrastructure in urban areas, including the repurposing of public spaces towards sustainable and safer transport modes such as public transport, walking, cycling and other personal mobility devices (e-scooters, electric bikes, etc), while taking into consideration the special needs of vulnerable road users; encourages greater investments for parking and other mobility connectivity zones in the entry of urban areas, providing for easy access to different modes of public transport, in view of the need to reduce urban congestion and CO2 emissions;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises that urban logistics are an essential public service; calls on local authorities to develop dedicated sustainable urban logistics plans that integrate freight into the planning of more dynamic and flexible uses of curb space; calls on the Commission and the Member States to work closely with regions and cities, particularly across borders, to enhance and complete relevant missing last-mile infrastructure and multimodal and cross- border connections throughout the TEN- T, thus enabling more seamless and efficient mobility system for passenger transport and freight logistics, which in turn prevents congestion and reduces emissions;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls for the swift finalisation of the Common European Data space for mobility which could have a positive impact in public transportation systems in terms of efficacy and efficiency and could consequently attract more users;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes the increase of active mobility such as walking, bicycling and calls on cities to ensure sufficient infrastructure for active mobility and to make this an integral part of urban mobility and infrastructure design;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Believes that, where appropriate and in full respect of the principle of subsidiarity, the cycling and walking infrastructure put in place in Member States as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic should remain in place and be expanded, in order to further promote safe active mobility;
Amendment 89 #
5 b. Calls for an EU action plan to implement a single and multimodal ticketing system which allows consumers to book and reserve a journey involving multiple operators, including cross-border connections, and different means of transport;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Recalls that almost 40 percent of all road fatalities in Europe occur in urban areas and that vulnerable road- users account for 70% of these fatalities; stresses that it is imperative to improve road safety in urban areas and that particular attention should be paid to improving the safety of vulnerable road users;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5 d. Welcomes that the EU has reaffirmed its long-term strategic goal to get close to zero deaths and zero serious injuries on European roads by 2050, known as Vision Zero, calls for increased efforts to reach the medium-term goal to reduce deaths and serious injuries by 50 % by 2030;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5 e. Calls on the Commission to reflect the changing nature of urban mobility in its upcoming EU urban mobility framework;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Underlines that the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has highlighted and exposed strong disparities between urban and rural areas, such as in the quality and access to basic services i.e. healthcare and transport services; recalls that rural areas, which are home to 30.6% of the EU population, and particularly sparsely populated ones, suffer from a shortage of quality transport infrastructures as well as from low frequency of collective public transport services, which directly affect their connectivity, accessibility and ultimately their socioeconomic development; reiterates that improving and reinforcing rural-urban connectivity can play a decisive role in reversing depopulation trends and addressing post- COVID demographic changes and behaviours, such as the increased spread of teleworking or rural tourism;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the expansion of the home delivery sector and specifically the use of vans and powered two-wheeled vehicles such as mopeds and bicycles, boosting the emergence of new types of platform work and business models; calls on the Commission to ensure that professional van drivers undergo appropriate training and to address the issue of van drivers’fatigue and speeding, particularly as a result of the large increase in the number of home deliveries; calls on the Commission to come up with a recommendation on the safety of delivery personnel, including requirements for employers and companies to ensure the provision and use of safety equipment and safe vehicles, as well as training in the digital tools they might have to use, such as applications and interactive platforms;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls for concrete measures to support the best practices currently employed by national, regional and local authorities, recalls the importance of modern, seamless TEN-T networks and high-speed cross-border services across Europe for unlocking the potential of international collective sustainable transport to make tourism more sustainable throughout every season of the year;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Underlines that cohesion policy should contribute to better integrating women in policy planning for regional and urban development to design gender- inclusive cities and communities in the post-COVID era;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Recalls, in this respect, the need to strengthen urban nodes and public transport, which are an important part of tourists’ experiences and citizens’ everyday lives in tourist destinations;