LEGNANO – From today, Tuesday 23 April, students and workers who are already registered on the WeCity app they will be able to return to cycling by earning “Co2 coin” to be spent in the almost 50 accredited shops in Legnano. In fact, it starts again until June 15th the mobility voucher initiative which is part of the project “The Alto Milanese goes into sustainable mobility”, with which the municipal council aims to encourage travel by bicycle, scooter or on foot, as well as neighborhood businesses.
The overall value of the mobility vouchers approved by Root & C. is equal to 6,657 euros, a sum that allows you to add 200 new users to the 600 already registered. This means that, from today, workers or students over the age of 16 who live, work or study in Legnano can obtain accreditation by registering on the WeCity app, which they will have to activate during each journey from home to work and home to school and vice versato monitor the kilometers traveled and accrue the credit, equal to 0.25 euros per kilometre routed in a sustainable way. Also from today the deadlines open for commercial establishments to be accredited for the use of mobility vouchers, which they must be spent by Sunday 16 June.
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«We managed to recover some resources from the ministerial funding – explains the councilor for “everyday life”, Monica Berna Nasca – and we make it available to workers and students who, by moving sustainably to reach their workplace or school, will be able to help support the neighborhood traders in our city. The ministry had conceived the mobility voucher initiative with multiple purposes: not just to incentivize one alternative mobility to that of private carsbenefiting the commercial businesses that joined the project, but also triggering a virtuous mechanism in the local communities whereby, once the allocated funds were exhausted, the vouchers would be financed by the commercial operators themselves. My hope is that, given the good feedback, the initiative can continue with the help of our economic fabric.”
To date they have been cycled a total of 62,000 km between high schools and individual workers/students; 55,000 euros is the sum spent in the city’s commercial establishments.
legnano sustainable mobility vouchers – MALPENSA24
