Dynamic signs, located between the Fairgrounds and the San Andrés Highway, as well as a new mobile application (app) will offer drivers who want to travel to the Las Teresitas beach real-time information on the availability of parking spaces in the coastal area. The project, which will go out to tender in February for a total amount of 214,000 euros, is expected to be launched next summer, as announced yesterday by the Councilor for Mobility of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, Evelyn Alonso, during the presentation of the budgets. by 2024 of the municipal area.
The councilor explained that “the City Council will also have European funds, focused on promoting tourism recovery, to implement this novel measure, which will be based on the automation, counting and management of the existing parking spaces in Las Teresitas, both in the usual parking next to the beach as well as the new one that was opened on the site occupied by the mamotreto, so that citizens, both residents and visitors, are at all times informed about the status of the parking spaces according to typologies, that is , places for reduced mobility, caravans, cars, motorcycles, etc.
In this way, the current traffic lights installed in the time of COVID will be replaced along the capital’s coastal road with various panels that will offer drivers the actual count of parking spaces on the beach and, even, “not It is ruled out to enable an information point, at the height of the Dock, where it is advised to turn around if the parking lot in Las Teresitas is full. The objective is to solve the car delays that occur at the access to the beach,” highlighted the councilor.
blue zones
A novel project that the councilor described as a “star” for 2024, which will be framed within the wide range of actions that the Mobility area plans to carry out throughout the year and for which it will have a budget of 31.5 million euros. during this year. Actions among which Alonso also highlighted the implementation of the Parking Master Plan, scheduled for next July, through which the necessary measures will be implemented to regulate parking management in the capital.
In this regard, the councilor pointed out that this regulation includes the implementation of the so-called Regulated Parking Zones (ZER), in which time limitations will be established for leaving the car on public roads, “establishing blue and green zones.” to park which, depending on places, will determine whether they are paid or free,” he indicated.
In this sense, Alonso announced that to determine the rates that will be charged to citizens for parking, a tax ordinance will be prepared to set the prices which, he highlighted, “will not be excessive.”
“This is a complete inventory of the existing surface parking offer in the capital, including spaces for cars, motorcycles and personal mobility vehicles, while regulated spaces, parking spaces for loading and unloading and areas for recharging will be studied. of electric cars, but always prioritizing the resident, especially those in the Low Emissions Zone (ZBE) that will be implemented in the city center at the beginning of 2025 and will involve traffic restrictions,” he said.
Master Plan
This Master Plan will also regulate, outside public roads, private parking in homes, municipal parking for residents, public parking, parking in shopping centers and reserved parking with access control. The supply of off-road parking will also be controlled, as well as the demand for parking, which will be quantified by establishing a percentage of occupancy in the morning, afternoon and night periods.
Different parameters, both for street parking and public parking, which will set the hourly occupancy diagram, rotation rate, parking duration and analysis of rotations, where after the treatment of the information collected and the collection in the works field, will order and quantify both supply and demand.
A regulation about to come into force that, ultimately, is aimed at controlling indiscipline in parking and will include proposals for defining criteria for urban intervention on local roads to minimize the possibilities of illegal parking, key in the search for a change towards more sustainable ways in the Tenerife capital.
Citizens will be able to consult the ZBE project in the capital
The Official Gazette of the Province (BOP) of Santa Cruz de Tenerife yesterday published the project for the implementation of the Low Emissions Zone (ZBE) in the capital, a document that from today, and for 30 days, can be consulted by citizens through the City Council website (www.santacruzdetenerife.es), where they will be allowed to present allegations. The BOP also made public the municipal approval of the review and update of the Urban Mobility Plan (PMU), which will give more space to pedestrians. It can be consulted at this link.
