The mayor of Santa Cruz, José Manuel Bermúdez, together with the first deputy mayor and councilor for Public Services and the Centro-Ifara district, Guillermo Díaz Guerra, and the mayor for Infrastructures and Works, Dámaso Arteaga, visited the Goal attempts end of workss carried out in the Imeldo Seris streetwhich was handed over to the City Council yesterday, after more than 14 months, and which was opened to traffic starting at five in the afternoon.
The alderman and the councilors shared yesterday 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 resolved diligently by the concessionaire,” said Bermúdez. In addition, 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, so that it is comfortable for citizens, visitors and tourists, and that this is reflected in their economic activity”.
For his part, Guillermo Díaz Guerra, as councilor of the Centro-Ifara District, 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 times that run with modern, more extensive equipment and connections”.
Dámaso Arteaga maintained that “these works carried out on Imeldo Serís street, which have involved an investment of two million, have served to revitalize the street and improve its aesthetics with new lighting, providing more quality to the finishes of the sidewalks and giving it greater prominence. to the pedestrian”.
Also, the mayor argued that “this comprehensive remodeling has modernized certain services of this artery.”
Faced with the municipal assessment, groups such as that of We Want to Move, has made public its criticism of a work that, it considers, does not meet the accessibility that was promised. “They leave lighting poles in the center of the sidewalk; they leave tubes attached to the facade; or they authorize sidewalk terraces that are not wide enough for it”, are some of the criticisms expressed on the group’s social networks.
