Playa Blanca has this Friday inaugurated the new 720-meter-long road that connects Papagayo Avenue and the exit to Femés, a municipal drafting project that has involved an investment of 2.1 million euros and has been co-financed between the Yaiza City Council and the State Secretariat for Tourism. The mayor, Óscar Noda, toured the road early in the morning accompanied by the first deputy mayor, Ángel Domínguez, the Councilor for Public Works of Yaiza, Jonatan Lemes, and councilors from the southern government group, formed by Unidos por Yaiza (UPY) and Coalición Canaria.
"The new road relieves vehicular traffic from the town center and offers a comfortable walking area for pedestrians and cyclists, benefiting residents of Las Coloradas, Castillo del Águila, the old Playa Blanca partial plan, San Marcial del Rubicón, and also the accommodation complexes located in this area of Playa Blanca, so the work also has an environmental component, since shortening distances also reduces vehicle emissions," the mayor highlighted.
Jonatan Lemes, for his part, recalls that "the project executed, in addition to the road and its dividing median, two roundabouts to give greater fluidity to traffic, one on each avenue, a bicycle lane, parking areas, pedestrian crossings, and sidewalks, all illuminated with canalizations and street furniture."
The mayor of Yaiza has thanked "the work of the Councilor for Public Works and the team of the Technical Office, who, given the volume of investments in the municipality and the projects we have in the drafting phase, I know make a great effort to attend to all fronts." In this regard, he stressed that this same Friday the Governing Board met "to initiate the contracting procedures for several more works, including the rehabilitation of the road to Puerto Calero, paving in the streets of Yaiza town, and paving and improvements on Papagayo Avenue to Las Coloradas."
Regarding the inter-administrative collaboration agreements that allow Yaiza to execute projects such as the link road that Playa Blanca is inaugurating, the mayor defends that "in institutions, political will is not enough, but resources and having an administration like Yaiza that can sign agreements with supra-municipal institutions because we are up to date with our obligations and we have a healthy City Council." "It is no coincidence that we are the municipal administration with the highest investment capacity in Lanzarote. Here there are no words, in Yaiza there are palpable facts," he maintains.