The Arrecife City Council has proceeded to remove more than fifty abandoned vehicles that were in the municipal depot for scrapping.
Specifically, a total of 53 cars deposited in the municipal paddock have been transferred to an Authorized Vehicle Treatment Center after being discharged by the General Traffic Directorate, either because their owners could not be located or because their owners have not shown interest in recovering them.
The mayor of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, and the councilor of the Traffic Infractions Area, Eli Merino, have visited the facilities of the municipal depot and maintain that, with the removal of these abandoned vehicles in the streets of the city, its capacity is recovered and allows us to continue with the environmental improvement policy of Arrecife.
“By streamlining the operation of the Administration, with the awarding of the abandoned vehicle removal service and with the improvement in the processing of infractions, we put an end to an environmental problem that is inappropriate for a capital of an island that is a Biosphere Reserve”,” says the mayor.
It should be noted that the Arrecife City Council awarded the abandoned vehicle removal service to the company Celestino Domingo Pérez Hernández at the end of last year.
According to the data pointed out by Merino, “only during the past year files were opened for 263 abandoned vehicles, of which 123 were removed by their owners, another 24 were scrapped with the authorization of the owners and the remaining 53 are those that we have now removed from the paddock for the Treatment Center.”