Recommended Routes for Quality Nightlife

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Efficiency, Sustainability

Recommended Routes for Quality Nightlife

Reinforcing roads with brighter lights, more police patrols, night bus service, and on-demand intermediate bus stops when entertainment venues close from 5.00am to 7.00am.

Terrassa City Council

Spain

Local policy

POLICY OBJECTIVE

Create a network of three recommended routes from Friday to Saturday and Saturday to Sunday, 5.00am to 7.00am, when most entertainment venues close. Reinforce roads with brighter lights and more police patrols, and add six trips to the nighttime bus service, bringing the end of service from 4.15am to 8.42am, when bus line 9 starts. Night buses will also offer intermediate stops, allowing users to request a stop at any point along routes. On 19 December, Terrassa Municipal Police introduced the new initiative, which is on track for indefinite deployment, in agreement with Catalan Police (Mossos d’Esquadra) and participation from municipal services of security, gender policies, mobility and public spaces.

Goals:

Generate a climate of permanent safety and proximity.
Create a network of surveillance and prevention.
Make people feel safer at night.
Promote free and quality leisure in the city.

CONTEXT

Terrassa has more than 200,000 inhabitants, so during the festive seasons, the streets are full of people at all hours and nightlife is more widespread.

The city is not unsafe, but improvements can always be made to make people feel safer, particularly in festive environments.

POLICY DESCRIPTION

Creation of a network of recommended routes, with three proposed routes Friday to Saturday and Saturday to Sunday, 5.00am to 7.00am, when most entertainment venues close.
Extension of the Night Bus, which previously ended at 4.15am, to include six more trips and service until 8.42am, when bus line 9 begins service.

KEY ASPECTS

Study the city’s least safe routes.
Consider police human resources.
Review budget feasibility.
Study hours of maximum light intensity and cost.
Study cost of brightening and whether an increase may disturb residents’ rest.

RESULTS

This policy is too recent to study the results.

Policy's Website

Anna

Farràs Sanz

Head of European and International Affairs

anna.farras@terrassa.cat

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