- In the school environment of the Atxuri district of Bilbao there are hardly any pedestrian areas and intense traffic often leads to risk situations. The solution has been requested by the parents long ago, but since it does not arrive, at the children’s entrances and exits, the parents start “protecting the way to the children”. The Ertzaintza has imposed a fine of EUR 600 on two of the parents of the child.
The educational community has claimed on several occasions that the spaces surrounding the school center should be safe spaces. In Atxuri, in Bilbao, the lack is evident: In the atrium of Colegio Maestro García Rivero, pedestrians have little space and the road is the one that commands. The parents, concerned, have asked for a solution to the City of Bilbao: at the entrance and exits of the students, the agents have come or cut off the traffic at that time.
In the absence of an answer, since last year, it is the parents themselves who set up the portal to ensure that the children's entrances and exits are safe. They recalled that they did so with the permission of the City Council of Bilbao, but that the two parents were fined EUR 600 each for disobedience to the authority.
“It’s untenable to criminalize parents because we do and continue to do the work that the City Hall should take on,” he criticized the association of parents of the school in the following video: