The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, has denounced in a press release the "monument to neglect" that the fulfillment of five years of the closure of the LZZ-703 road by the Cabildo de Lanzarote to guarantee road safety due to the appearance of an enormous sinkhole in the vicinity of Los Hervideros.
Noda points directly to "the inaction" of the Island Council to execute the conditioning project as the competent Institution in the Island's road network: "the Cabildo was not able to decree the emergency route at the first moment to speed up the intervention. The responsibility is shared between this and the previous government, although the current one guaranteed its immediate solution and even Oswaldo Betancort campaigned promising action."
“We understand that it is a complex project, but we are completing five years with the road closed, with incalculable losses for the restoration of the coastal town of El Golfo, which has also been deceived by the island government. Furthermore, we are depriving residents and tourists of one of the most impressive routes we can offer in the south of Lanzarote,” points out the mayor of Yaiza, who also recalls that “not few are the initiatives that we have presented from the Yaiza government group and I personally also as a councilor in the opposition in the island Cabildo.”
Óscar Noda claims to the president, Oswaldo Betancort “less milongas and more action, or translated into his TikToker language, so he understands me better, less words and more deeds”. The president visited the sinkhole on July 11, 2023, promising speed in the execution of the works, “but the reality is that in 2026 we find ourselves in an identical situation, with the road closed”.
In March 2025, at the press conference presenting the project drafted by Tragsa, the president maintained he was taking “a firm step to fulfill the commitment”, calculating the investment at more than seven million euros and announcing its tender for the end of 2025.
In any case, concludes the mayor, “the island government (CC-PP) denounces the inaction of the previous government presided over by Dolores Corujo, given that the PP also formed part of it together with the PSOE, and we are just over a year away from the end of the current term and the sinkhole continues to count days, months and years.”