"If they put them back, they will break them again." This is what the mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín, has stated, who although he believes that breaking the speed cameras on the Tinguatón road "is not the way to act", he understands that "people are upset" with their installation and that the events will be repeated if they are put back into operation. "The people of Tinajo are not murderers, far from it, they are just angry," he said on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero, where he stated that "what they have to do is remove them so they don't get broken anymore."
It should be remembered that the Tinajo City Council itself has been positioning itself against the speed cameras on the Cycle Path that runs through the Natural Park of the Volcanoes, even ordering the stoppage of the works. Furthermore, the plenary session of the Cabildo approved in plenary last November, at the request of Somos Lanzarote, a motion requesting their removal, in this case considering that they represent an "attack on the landscape and environmental values of the island." However, the agreement adopted by the first institution also requested that the institutions agree on a speed limit on the road, where now you cannot exceed 60 kilometers per hour.
"We are going to fight to be able to remove them, because what they are doing with the municipality of Tinajo is unfair", Jesús Machín pointed out in this regard, who pointed out that the installation work on the speed cameras has already finished and that, according to what he has learned, "they were being tested" by the awarded company. "Although I hope and wish they don't put them up," added the mayor of Tinajo, who, however, said that although he believes that "the company has been working a bit secretly", he can "understand it."
"But the ones I don't understand are those from Traffic, neither the Ministry nor the Cabildo. I would be putting pressure on that all day to get them to remove it," said Jesús Machín, who nevertheless has stated that the president of the first island institution, Pedro San Ginés, has confirmed that he has sent a letter with the plenary agreement to the General Directorate of Traffic. "And if they want to leave them, let them increase the speed to 80 as on any other road in Lanzarote, because before the tourists there was the town of Tinajo," added the mayor of Tinajo, recalling that "there is a report from the City Council that says that it can be increased."
"A business for Traffic"
Thus, Machín has insisted that "formulas be sought" if it is wanted that the road be shared by bicycles and the rest of the vehicles. "Why are there more speed cameras in Lanzarote? Here and on the Playa Blanca road. And on the Playa Blanca road they are on the old one, which has another alternative, because whoever wants can go on the new road," claimed the mayor of Tinajo, who believes that the speed cameras are only "a business for Traffic". "Because they have it running 24 hours a day and any neighbor who gets distracted will be crushed and it is a very low speed for a road that is insular."
"And breaking them is not the formula, but neither is the formula of the man who called me from Traffic, who said he was an engineer, and who more or less threatened me," added Jesús Machín, stating that "those from Traffic" have had "a war and a fight" with him." "And people also have blood running through their veins and when they do these things they risk a lot, but they do it because they are hurt", said the mayor.
