The Yaiza City Council is investing 55,000 euros in works to improve accessibility on the small beach of Playa Blanca, consisting of the reform and widening of the ramp adapted to current regulations to facilitate the movement of people with reduced mobility, placement of stainless steel railings for the safety of users and installation of walkways made of one hundred percent recycled plastic.
"The new walkways on the town's beach have the advantage over the wooden ones, which we are replacing, that they are practical to assemble and disassemble, do not splinter and are resistant to weathering and humidity," explains the councillor responsible for the maintenance of buildings and other public infrastructures, Rubén Arca.
The municipal action also foresees the installation of platforms in two of the docks of the promenade of the tourist center in order to avoid possible slips or falls of bathers. And, according to the City Council, boys and girls from the town, and also visitors, usually use these cobbled platforms to enjoy the landscape and the southern waters. One of the docks is located near the esplanade of the port of Playa Blanca and the other near the Fund Grube store.
"The current confinement situation allows us to act without disturbing the bathers. The small beach is preferred above all by the residents of the town, also remembering that our boys and girls from the Canarian Wrestling School train there daily", says the mayor, Óscar Noda, who guarantees that the institution will continue to invest in accessibility and is studying the creation of a specific area to design and execute all actions in this area.
"It is always important to improve or build infrastructures that solve citizen needs and demands, but at this moment, even more so if you want to and can, as is our case, because companies need liquidity and public administrations can inject it through the execution of initiatives of general interest," adds Noda.
In this regard, it is noted that since the lifting of the restriction for the exercise of non-essential activities, el Yaiza City Council resumed projects budgeted at more than eight million euros.
