11 Amendments of Tomasz Piotr PORĘBA related to 2014/2242(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that over 70 per cent of the EU population, generating approx. 85 per cent of the European Union’s GDP, lives in cities and that sustainable urban mobility is an increasingly important topic in cohesion policy, being a key element and facilitator for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth: considers that the ESIF funds, and especially the ERDF, should contribute to the financing, through the operational programmes, of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) for cities and regions and in the EU, by supporting clean and innovative forms of urban transport that will promote multimodality and mobility in a broader territorial context;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that it is therefore essential to ensure the development and promotion of SUMPs and urban sustainability in all European cities, functional urban areas and regions, including an analysis of needs and objectives for mobility infrastructure, addressing all modes and means of transport in a complementary fashion and in the context of territorial and global spatial development, promoting clean, sustainable, effective and energy-efficient transport, favouring the interconnectedness of urban and periurban areas, and promoting greater self-sufficiency, competitiveness, economic growth and better conditions of employment; and recalls that urban transport, including establishing transport alternatives to reduce demand for travelling by individual means of transport, falls within the exclusive remit of cities and local authorities;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the authorities to promote the use of clean vehicles and clean fuels, along with the development of intelligent transport systems ensuring a territorial continuum between urban centres and their periurban areas especially in light of the fact that, according to Eurobarometer research, EU citizens are concerned about the negative consequences of increased traffic in cities and many of them are pessimistic about the possibility of increasing mobility in cities, considering traffic congestion (76 per cent), air quality (81 per cent) and accident rates (73 per cent) to be the most serious problems;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that the urban transport covers in practice also all means of transport moving around a city, including private cars, and does not exclusively deal with public urban transport;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Invites the Member States to take preventive measures, in accordance with the precautionary principle, to improve air quality in cities and to guarantee pollutant concentrations below the levels set in the World Health Organisation guidelines, in particular by providing freecost affordability of public transport or by alternating traffic;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to reduce the use of cars running on traditional fuels in urban areas by 2030, and to ban them by 2050 on a gradual basiin urban areas and gradually phase them out taking into account cost efficiency of alternatives;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States to set ambitious targets for reducing the use of transport-related energy in cities, thereby reducing emissions, and to set asetting targets of doubling cycling rates by 2025;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises the importance of SUMPs for achieving EU targets in respect of CO2 emissions, noise, air pollution and accident reduction; considers that the development of SUMPs should be a preconditionSUMPs may be promoted in the criteria for financing EU projects in the area of urban transport;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Notes that thorough speedadvanced traffic management leads to a drastic reduction in road fatalities and serious injuries in cities, especially for vulnerable road users;
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26