Patricia Hernández, PSOE candidate for mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, has committed to the creation of a new parking area in the Nuevo Obrero neighborhood, the first public one “in 30 years and that will be built with me as mayor”. She highlighted at a press conference that the publicly owned plot on which she intends to build the car parks is a strategic location where “thousands of homes without parking, the tram area and the vicinity of the Hospital de La Candelaria converge.”
At present, the excess of vehicles has saturated both the sidewalks and the streets, “flooding the neighborhood and leaving few spaces for walking and coexistence,” laments the candidate. This is a serious problem that affects 131,975 homes in the city that lack parking spaces and the tens of thousands of Tenerife residents who visit the island’s capital.
“We propose to do what the council has not done in the last 30 years: build parking spaces included in the General Planning Plan and not executed.” The creation of this parking area will mean the beginning of a strategy that will combine dissuasive public car parks with car parks for residents together with an adequate public transport network, in a viable alternative to the use of private cars. Hernández’s objective is that not all the cars that come to Santa Cruz park in the center of the city. The Nuevo Obrero proposal is an example of a mobility policy that Hernández will carry out from the mayor’s office.
The combination of public transportation, which includes taxi, bus, and tram services, will encourage people to leave their vehicles comfortably in Nuevo Obrero and use public transportation to access the services offered by the city of Santa Cruz“explains the candidate.
Patricia Hernández assured that this is the first concrete step in the last 30 years to address the lack of parking spaces in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Likewise, the creation of new parking spaces for residents will be contemplated, as part of a mobility strategy to resolve the deficit of 20,000 parking spaces also present in other neighborhoods of the city such as La Salud, Duggi, Los Gladiolos, La Salle, El Toscal, Salamanca, Uruguay, among others.
Hernández will also have an annex plot to create a car park in an environment that is close to 8,000 square meters.
For decades, this situation has been known and Hernández recalls that, within the framework of the PGO Mobility Plan that is in process, this problem is also included. His commitment to improving urban mobility and the quality of life of citizens is reflected in this initiative, which marks the beginning of a change in trend in the city in conjunction with a powerful public transport policy.
