Residents of the Costa del Silencio complain about the poor condition of the pavement on some of the roads in this tourist center in the municipality of Arona, where numerous workers from the South reside. They demand that the City Council put an end to potholes and cracks in the streets, since, they say, they pose a risk to driving and cause mechanical damage to vehicles.
A group of residents has addressed this newspaper to complain about the state of some of the roads through which tourist buses, rental cars and private cars and motorcycles circulate daily. Among them they cite the central Diana street, one of the busiest, which connects the El Chaparral shopping center area, on José Antonio Tavío avenue, with the Maravilla urbanization.
“There are potholes in which it seems that a missile has fallen,” said one of the neighbors ironically to describe the level of deterioration of the road. “It’s not one, not two, not three, these are full of sinkholes,” denounced another of the residents in the area. The City Council of Arona, through the Department of Works and Infrastructures, put out to tender last January the renovation of five tracks, whose work will be undertaken “shortly”.
The projects include Calle Diana, on the Costa del Silencio, and also Los Príncipes and La Paz, in Las Galletas, and Júpiter y Cefeo, in the heart of Las Rosas. The works have a budget of 298,907 euros. From the government group it is recalled that last year an asphalting plan budgeted at more than two million euros was presented to the Plenary with which it was intended to renew the pavement of thirty roads, including Chayofita and Sweden avenues, Finland Street (Los Cristianos) or Islas Canarias Avenue (El Fraile), but it was not finally approved in the plenary session.
