Benidorm aspired to become a pedestrian tourist destination, at least in the center of the city. And in order to give priority to visitors on foot, it now offers free park-and-ride parking and a free bus to get around after leaving the car.
The Councilor for Mobility, José Ramón González de Zárate, has announced the commissioning of a "new tool" that will be "of great help to publicize the more than 7.000 free parking spaces" distributed throughout the city.
"From the home page of the municipal website, from a computer or mobile phone, you can access the list of car parks." Once there, the user is offered a map of the city indicating the location of the car parks and "a downloadable file for each of them" and their indications that "complement" with a link to Google Maps, compatible with the navigation systems that today everyone carries in vehicles or mobile phones. From there you can easily access the parking lot.
To publicize this utility, a campaign has been launched through information screens distributed throughout the city that is complemented by actions on social networks and the placement of posters in public buildings.
González de Zárate has influenced Benidorm's commitment to "a large free parking network that facilitates access to the city and is friendly to the driver" and at the same time "give priority to pedestrians". That is why "the nearly 40 car parks" distributed from La Cala to Rincón have been conditioned, acting and tidying up open spaces on public or private land "thanks to agreements with their owners" to turn them into "safe places to park our vehicles".
Sustainable mobility
The City Council's commitment to "sustainable mobility" is complemented by the free bus service provided from the dissuasive car parks located in Francisco Llorca Antón (Bus Station) and Avenida de Cuba (Vía Parque).
"By parking the vehicle, the user can obtain a free round-trip ticket that allows them to move to the Center or Rincón de Loix on the line buses that have an average passage time of fifteen minutes", explained the councilor .
