The Imeldo Seris street will be delivered this noon to City Hall of Santa Cruz de Tenerife after fourteen and a half months of work and an investment of 2 million euros, so this afternoon, around 5:00 p.m., it will be definitively opened to road traffic.
The mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, together with the first deputy mayor, councilor for Public Services and the Centro-Ifara district, Guillermo Díaz Guerra, and the councilor for Infrastructure and Works, Dámaso Arteaga, yesterday visited the final auctions of the works carried out out on the road.
The mayor and the councilors shared with the neighbors and several merchants of this street “the satisfaction of seeing an important and far-reaching work completed, which has not been without difficulties, but which have been diligently solved by the concessionaire ”, Bermudez pointed out.
He argued that it is “a comprehensive action that has changed the image of this road, which is no longer the back of Castillo Street with new channels, connections and wider sidewalks, to make it comfortable for citizens, visitors and tourists, and that this is reflected in its economic activity”.
For his part, Guillermo Díaz Guerra highlighted “the commitment made with neighbors, as well as with the merchants of this central street in the capital, which has meant placing this road within the current times with modern equipment and connections, more wide”.
He added that the idea “was precisely that this remodeling supposes now, with the revitalization that is planned in this area, that the street is integrated into the commercial fabric of the city and acquires the relevance that corresponds to it”.
Dámaso Arteaga maintains that these works “have served to revitalize the street and improve its aesthetics with new lighting, providing more quality to the finishes of the sidewalks and giving greater prominence to the pedestrian”, and argued that this comprehensive remodeling “has made it possible to modernize certain services of this artery, among them, those of sanitation or connections that had been affecting the old Barranquillo street or those referring to the channeling that existed below the road of the old ravine of Oil “.
“They have involved -Arteaga continued- about fourteen and a half months of work, in an action that was scheduled to last a year, but whose final result, despite all the vicissitudes encountered when the pavement was lifted, is very satisfactory” and added which from this afternoon will be open to traffic in its entirety, although at its intersection with Valentín Sanz there will be a performance by Endesa, unrelated to this work, which will maintain a fence at the end of Imeldo Serís for a few days.
To conclude, the Councilor for Infrastructure and Works thanked “the reception that the final result of this execution has had among neighbors, neighbors and merchants in this area” and ended by emphasizing and acknowledging “the patience and understanding that both neighbors have had and neighboring residents of this street, such as merchants and users of this road that now shows off an impeccable, modern result adapted to current times, where the pedestrian is the real protagonist.
