The La Laguna City Council has begun work to prepare a plot of land on Camino La Villa as a provisional parking lot with capacity for 70 vehicles.
It is a municipally owned plot of approximately 1,670 square meters located between Timanfaya, Mencey Romén and Mencey Ichasagua streets, as explained on Tuesday by the council in a statement indicating that the parking lot will remain open as long as it is not developed in the plot its intended use in the planning as a socio-cultural endowment.
The action is part of the strategy of the Department of Works and Infrastructures for the creation of parking bags in different areas of the municipality, “in response to a generalized demand that favors mobility and makes it easier for residents to park near the place in the one they live in,” says the mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez.
The mayor recalls that this action plan includes the one carried out in March in San Bartolomé de Geneto, where a municipal plot was conditioned for the creation of 46 parking spaces next to the Citizen Center, and future actions are contemplated in Los Baldíos, Los Andenes, Camino La Hornera and San Miguel de Geneto.
In addition, “the intervention in these plots is not limited to providing parking spaces for vehicles but also providing them with spaces for public use by citizens”, such as small squares or garden areas.
The Councilor for Works and Infrastructures, Adolfo Cordobés, explains that for the adaptation of these areas “we are resorting to a system that represents significant savings, since we reuse the milling of the pavement of other roads”.
The mayor reports that during the first semester of the year the City Council has been developing two asphalting programs: one on the roads of the metropolitan area and mountains of the municipality, awarded for 1,422,917 euros, to improve road safety in some thirty streets in different towns and neighborhoods; and a second program of pavement reinforcement works on twenty roads, mainly in the Northeast Region, with an investment of 1,140,000 euros.
“In several of these actions, the old asphalt of the tracks has been removed to proceed with a new resurfacing,” says the councilor.
“These remains of old asphalt are what we are now reusing, after giving them the appropriate treatment, applying them as a base for the new parking areas, which significantly reduces the costs of this action,” adds the councilor, who points out that the accumulation of remains of asphalt on the plot “can generate some inconveniences in nearby homes, due to the dust they produce when they are deposited, so we will take measures to make this situation as less annoying as possible.”
