The spokesperson for the Canarian Coalition in the Tías City Council, Amado Vizcaíno, believes that "it was about time that the government led by José Juan Cruz Saavedra realized the need to remove the tourist signage that was in poor condition and posed a danger to pedestrians", although he accuses them of doing so "too late".
"On the one hand, we are glad that they have finally opened their eyes, but on the other hand, we consider it shameful and even reprehensible that they waited for the fall of one of the signs to cause a person to be injured and transferred to the hospital, the same day that our motion was rejected," says Vizcaíno.
The councilor recalls that last April, the government group of the southern Consistory rejected in the Plenary a motion in which CC proposed that a process of revision and improvement of the installation of tourist signage be initiated to prevent it from occupying part of the public road or causing accidents.
"That a three-meter-high sign falls and hits a pedestrian is not a coincidence, and that the wind has knocked down signs is also not a coincidence," says the councilor, who states that before raising the motion to the plenary, he had already been "warning for months of the consequences of inappropriate and poorly installed signage".
"Indicators placed at such a low height that they posed a real danger to pedestrians, others improperly secured to the asphalt, or those that invited confusion or did not even fulfill their purpose, such as identifying the town of La Tiñosa as a tourist attraction in the oldest part of Puerto del Carmen, have been some of the absurdities denounced by CC," he recalls in a statement.
"With this history, we are afraid of what may happen now that they have removed the signs that were in bad condition. It is pathetic that the government of the main tourist center of the island ignores all these types of issues, which are vital when establishing whether a destination is of quality or not," Vizcaíno points out.