The return of students to the educational centers of the capital of Lanzarote will be much safer this school year. The Arrecife City Council, through joint actions of the Departments of Public Works and Mobility and Transportation, respectively, has carried out various works during this summer to reinforce road safety on the access streets to some of the educational centers or municipal sports facilities.
During these summer weeks, the Department of Public Works of the Arrecife City Council has completed the work to improve accessibility and eliminate architectural barriers on Tamaragua Street, where the entrances to the IES Las Salinas are located, and very close to it, the municipal sports facilities of the José Díaz Contreras Soccer Field.
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, who is also directly responsible for the Department of Public Works, has detailed that within the Municipal Resurfacing Plan, it was planned to adapt and eliminate possible architectural barriers existing on the sidewalks next to the access doors to these educational centers or sports facilities, as has been done in this month of August, and the first week of September, in the sector of the Las Salinas neighborhood, where the Antonio Zerolo schools and the IES Salinas are located, both very close to the Soccer Field where Maritime Orientation has its headquarters.
In parallel, the Department of Mobility and Transportation, led by councilor Mario González Altube, is reinforcing road safety with new signage and the placement of speed bumps in front of these public centers, with a high presence of children and young people.
New accesses for the IES Agustín Espinosa
Starting next Monday, September 9, the students of the Las Salinas and Agustín Espinosa Institutes will premiere access to their educational centers through safer roads. The semi-pedestrian transformation of Canalejas Street, carried out by the Department of Public Works, under the direct direction of the mayor, has made it possible, in addition to the modernization of the urban image of the area, to have new accesses to the IES Agustín Espinosa, the oldest secondary education center in Lanzarote.
During this summer, the works have been carried out by the Department of Education of the Canarian Executive, and the institute itself, to pay for the new access to the center through an area without the presence of vehicles, as the mayor had suggested to the Canarian Minister of Education, Poli Suárez.
Safe school routes in the surroundings of the Nieves Toledo and La Destila schools
Mayor Yonathan de León recalled that "Arrecife is immersed in a broad plan to improve its streets and sidewalks, to renew the asphalt pavement and provide greater accessibility to public areas" at the confluences of public centers.
Thus, the entire surroundings of the Nieves Toledo school offer a safe school route, and since the past months, the accesses to the La Destila school, of modern construction, offer in its streets the "Stop and Kiss" system implemented on a pilot basis by the Department of Mobility and Transportation of Arrecife, with the impulse of the councilor Mario González Altube. Likewise, this school offers a semi-pedestrian access through Daute Street.
In recent months, the Department of Public Works of Arrecife has carried out improvement actions in several sections of the surroundings next to the La Destila neighborhood. Here, La Inés, Eugenio D'Ors, Cabo Juby or El Rubicón streets have been resurfaced, among others.
Yonathan de León has advanced that "this autumn will continue with new improvements in other neighborhoods, in the streets adjacent to educational, sports or health centers, which, like the Titerroy Health Center, had its accessibility and asphalt pavement improved in these past weeks of summer".