Arrecife woke up this Tuesday with the opening of several streets and the closure of a section of Avenida Fred Olsen. El Greco, Valls de la Torre and Almirante Boado Endeiza streets change the direction of traffic circulation from this Tuesday. In addition, the capital's City Council has put into operation three new lanes for traffic on the section of Manolo Millares street, between the La Destila and Antonio Zerolo schools.
All vehicles that travel through the surroundings of the Arrecife Gran Hotel have their exit on Almirante Boado Endeiza street, to reach Manolo Miralles street and continue in the direction of the highway to the airport.
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, who has been present this Tuesday morning supervising the changes in road signs and has reported that the section of Avenida Fred Olsen, between Guenia and Valls de la Torre streets, remains closed to traffic, as La Voz already announced. "The area under construction will allow you to enjoy, throughout the summer of 2024, a pedestrian section of the maritime front next to El Reducto Beach, without walls or barriers and fully accessible," the Arrecife City Council has assured.
Until now, the residents of Calle El Greco accessed their garages through the intersection on Calle Valls de la Torre. When the direction of traffic changes, they will do so from the area near the small roundabout on Guenia and Manolo Millares streets.
According to the modifications that are being carried out in this neuralgic area of the city, the main access road to the maritime avenue area of the capital of Lanzarote is channeled through the lane along Manolo Millares and Valls de la Torre streets.
In parallel, traffic from that area of the avenue accesses the interior of the city through the new accesses transformed by Guenia and Manolo Millares streets, which has registered a great change in its urban image with the culmination of the works in this neuralgic sector of Arrecife.
Pedestrianization of a section of Avenida Fred Olsen
The pedestrianization of the section of Avenida Fred Olsen has been possible because all the buildings between Valls de la Torre and Guenia streets have access to their respective garages through El Greco street, which was completely remodeled in 2022, together with Valencia street, to make it accessible and with a single platform design, eliminating barriers and obstacles from the sidewalks, within the municipal planning to make Arrecife become an accessible city.
Yonathan de León recalls that work is still being done on the modernization of Canalejas and Valls de la Torre streets and the pedestrianization of a section of Fred Olsen, which may cause some inconvenience to residents and businesses in the area. The mayor asks for understanding and collaboration while these important improvements are being carried out to modernize the capital of Lanzarote, with various actions to prepare it for the future, in a singular way in all the work in the subsoil of the new rainwater networks or wiring ducts, among others.
More loading and unloading areas and PMR parking
The capital's mayor has detailed that in this fully remodeled area new places are being created for parking vehicles with a blue card (people with reduced mobility), and more areas dedicated to loading and unloading carriers, as there are many commercial and hotel establishments on these roads.
The new taxi rank is assigned on the side of the Las Buganvillas building, in the direction of Arrecife with the airport.
The Department of Mobility and Transport, under the direction of councilor Mario González Altube, has marked the new stops for urban buses on Guenia and Almirante Boado Endeiza streets. These new stops will be until the works in the surroundings of El Reducto beach and the small roundabout with the Barlovento sculpture, by César Manrique, in whose vicinity the urban bus stops were located, are completed.
During this week, the companies awarded these signaling works continue to finalize the placement of the new road signs, vertical and horizontal.
The new tree area that will go on both sides of the wide promenade created on Manolo Millares street will be planted throughout next week.
The transformation works on Manolo Millares street were awarded in the past term, under the stage of the previous mayor Astrid Pérez, and the culmination of the final works on the section of Manolo Millares, this fall, with the impulse of the mayor Yonathan de León, and his Municipal Government group, where new projects and investments have been approved to continue modernizing Arrecife, where more than 42 percent of the population of Lanzarote resides.
