The Arrecife City Council has launched a plan to dismantle abandoned telephone booths in the public spaces of the capital of Lanzarote. Thus, municipal workers assigned to the Departments of Transportation and Mobility and Public Works, respectively, are proceeding to remove these abandoned booths in many areas of the city.
The mayor of Arrecife, and direct head of the Department of Public Works, Yonathan de León, announces that "we are proceeding to remove these booths that obstruct pedestrian crossings or pose barriers on the public roads of Arrecife." He adds that "in recent weeks, the booths on Manolo Millares street have been removed, which represented a barrier next to the pedestrian crossing."
For his part, the councilor of the Transportation and Mobility Area of the Arrecife City Council, the civil engineer Mario González Altube, recalls that "there is Order TMA/851/2021, of July 23, which develops the technical document of basic conditions of accessibility and non-discrimination for access and use of public, urbanized spaces, which must be complied with in all Spanish cities. A regulation that has been developed by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda.
Finally, the City Council points out that "it has required the company that owns these booths, has undertaken this removal in the face of breaches by the communications company to prevent, in Arrecife, and on its public roads, there continue to be obstacles that affect accessibility and mar the urban image of the capital of Lanzarote due to their state of abandonment."
