A year ago they received a commitment from the Santa Cruz City Council that they would take the necessary steps to find a solution to the lack of accessibility in their homes. These are the residents who have their homes in the La Salud neighborhood, between Cornisa and Güímar streets, all over 60 years old, and who every day face endless stairs and ramps to access their homes. The Department of Infrastructures, headed by Dámaso Arteaga, has commissioned the drafting of the project, facultative management and health and safety coordination of the works to improve accessibility between Cornisa and Güímar streets, once the urban planning and planning problems that prevented municipal action as the land was not public.
The purpose of this commission, to which 30,000 euros are allocated, is to define the works necessary to improve the accessibility conditions between the two streets, a design of the entire space that should achieve the highest possible degree of universal accessibility.
The area of the area is about 17,000 square meters and that of the intervention is about 5,000 square meters approximately, and the public lighting, electricity, drinking water, sanitation, rainwater, and irrigation network installations will be included in the project.
As stated in the specifications, the estimated budget for all the works included in the project amounts to 800,000 euros, a figure that is indicated is merely indicative. The winner will have four months to draft the project.
Arteaga explained yesterday that “we are putting out to tender the drafting of the project in this area, in which there are accessibility problems, with a notable aging of the population, which lives in single-family homes and with problems in the different streets of the area.”
historical demand
The mayor of Works explained that “we are commissioning the project to try to solve these unevenness and the number of steps that the residents have to overcome to access the houses from the car parks.” In addition, he added that “it is a historical demand to which we respond after overcoming some difficulties in urban and planning matters.”
According to Arteaga, the project is expected to be completed before the summer, “so that the work can be tendered later and be able to begin at the beginning of next year.” Likewise, he indicated that “it is one of the works most anticipated by the residents of that environment and from the Accessibility Area, directed by Javier Rivero, the urgency to solve this problem has been put on the table and that is what we are doing with the start of this tender.
