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Landáburu: "It is a good time to carry out the necessary works aimed at becoming an inclusive municipality, through a universal language, the so-called PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System), communication through the exchange of images" The Popular Municipal Group proposes for its approval in the plenary session in September a motion in which it requests the Government team to carry out a series of measures to make Águilas an inclusive municipality. "More and more municipalities are incorporating pictograms in pedestrian crossings to facilitate information and communication with people with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), which would have a double validity, since it would also serve the elderly and / or with other limitations ", has qualified the mayor of the PP, Antonio Landáburu. The councilor explained that "at present the contract for" Drafting of the Urban Mobility Plan in the municipality of Águilas "has already been awarded, corresponding to the Integrated Sustainable Urban Development strategy of Águilas, 80% co-financed by the Fund European Regional Development Program (ERDF), within the framework of the Pluriregional Operational Program of Spain 2014-2019 ".

"We understand that it is a good time, even if it does not appear in the technical specifications, to carry out the necessary works aimed at becoming an inclusive municipality, through a universal language, called PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System), communication through exchange of images ", Landáburu continued. For this, as the mayor explained, "we need the Águilas City Council to install pictograms in the pedestrian crossings as they are doing in other municipalities, in addition to incorporating PECS signage near the educational centers, downtown of the municipality and points of greatest influx of pedestrian crossings, such as accesses to busy squares, beaches, etc.

" "To this we would add the renovation of the traffic lights so that they have acoustic signaling for people without visual capacity, as well as within the administrative buildings, such as town hall, schools, health centers, police and other services of interest, the signage is updated of location and include Braille and also pictograms, to achieve a restored and inclusive municipality ", has concluded the popular councilor Antonio Landáburu.

Source: PP Águilas