The Municipality of Los Realejos announces that as of this Tuesday, May 10, 2022, the actions for the rearrangement of parking spaces and sidewalks will begin in the main commercial road of Toscal Longuera“with the aim of adapting the available spaces to guarantee pedestrian accessibility and road safety before the imminent installation of the new bar and restaurant terraces in the area”, warns the first deputy mayor and councilor for the Local Development area , Adolfo Gonzalez (PP).
These works try to prepare the way for the application of the new municipal ordinance that regulates the installation of terraces of bars and restaurants. The City Council of Los Realejosthrough its Municipal Planning Department, and in coordination with the Local police and the Security and Emergencies area will begin this Wednesday, May 11, these preliminary rehabilitation and urban reorganization works.
The first deputy mayor of Los Realejos, Adolf Gonzalezvisited the area on Monday with the Councilor for Urban Planning, Laura Lima (PP), and explained that “the section of action includes the main road of Toscal Longuerafrom the vicinity of its intersection with Calle Los Bancales to its intersection with Calle Las Dalias, where several restaurant establishments are concentrated that have already expressed and formalized their intention to undertake the installation of terraces in accordance with the new municipal regulations.
“We continue to maintain our commitment to facilitate this installation of terraces, in fact we have promoted a pioneering municipal subsidy in this regard to alleviate the costs involved, but we must guarantee and respect the coexistence and coexistence of pedestrian and transit uses and vehicle parking. in those same public environments, always prioritizing road safety and universal accessibility”, as underlined Adolf Gonzalez.
This Wednesday the intervention begins on the sidewalks and next week the asphalt will be acted on
Laura Lima He adds that “in the first days, intervention will be carried out in the restructuring and rehabilitation of some sidewalk points that require it, as well as in the reorganization of the landscaped spaces of this urban environment and in the relocation of several pedestrian crossings.” In addition, it advances that “then, already a priori already in the next week, the tasks of scarifying and paving the parking areas on both sides of the road will be carried out, as a previous step to the installation of the terraces.” For the municipal government It is essential to carry out this intervention as soon as possible, “since once the terraces are placed, the task of undertaking these improvements to the pavement would be difficult.”
The Town Planning Councilor indicates that «as far as possible, attempts will be made to reduce traffic interference, trying to ensure that when intervening in the parking lines on both sides, traffic can be maintained, at least in one of the two lanes of the road. via alternative way. With the help of signal operators.
«With the new reorganization of the parking lots on both sides of the road, with the establishment of the specific spaces that each requested terrace will occupy, each parking space will be painted and delimited with the aim of not losing adjoining spaces where a vehicle, as it did happen in some specific cases and exceptionally with the provisional installation that was enabled as a facilitating measure for bars and restaurants in the face of the health emergency, always understanding that it was an extraordinary circumstance and that it would be corrected, “concludes the mayor Laura Lima.
