The residents of Serrano de Santa Cruz street, who have been protesting for weeks and collecting signatures so that the buses stop going up to the Rambla through their street, met yesterday with the new councilor of the Ifara Central District, Alfonso Cabello, and the mayor of Mobility, Evelyn Alonso, to address the situation. Both councilors presented an alternative solution, that of the buses going up Ramón y Cajal from the Military Square, thus avoiding the dangerous turn that these vehicles make to enter through Serrano.
As Cabello explained at the end of the meeting, “it is true that the turn around the corner between Serrano and Álvarez de Lugo, from a security perspective, raises doubts, that is why we have put on the table an alternative proposal that consists of the buses go up Ramón y Cajal from the corner of the Military Square”. The councilor for the Treasury also explained that “if they go up that section we would gain that not only do they not pass through Serrano, but that we can install a more comfortable bus stop, and that the buses can make better stops.” A proposal that although it was well received by the residents, the truth is that when they were told that implementing this solution could take about three months, it caused them to show their disagreement.
“The asphalt works that have caused the buses not to go up Serrano will end in a few weeks, and if they take three months to fix their passage through Ramón y Cajal, that means that they will go up our street again, and we don’t want that” the neighbors pointed out.
After 15 years of suffering a measure that was going to be provisional, the neighbors do not trust and even raised a possible mobilization. “Just by all going out on the sidewalk we would prevent the buses from passing, we would not even have to ask permission to block the street,” they pointed out. “We would not like to reach that position, we are waiting for the proposed solution, but we do not want the buses to return.”
Alfonso Cabello has asked them for some margin to study the proposed alternative well and has summoned them to a meeting next week at the City Hall. “We need to analyze this proposal in more detail, because it has works, with the installation of traffic lights, the change in their frequencies throughout the area, and, apart from that, we also have to talk to Titsa to see what degree of affectation they can have the rest of the line”, he indicated.