Primero Teguise has echoed the complaints of the residents of Costa Teguise, criticizing the state of abandonment of the town, highlighting the "lack of maintenance and even abandonment of many areas of the population." "Costa Teguise offers today a panorama of habitual neglect, the abandonment of parks, gardens, avenues, garbage container areas... All this gives an image of total abandonment and an inoperative maintenance of the largest population center of our municipality is evident," they say from the political formation.
"Since the first ordinary plenary session, a year ago, we have demanded improvements in this area, as requested by the residents, however, we have not obtained answers, and when these arrive, they do not meet the necessary expectations either. Neither has the town seen progress in what is claimed, nor is the government group working on it," says the formation's councilor, Jonás Álvarez, who also denounces that "the only thing we have been able to verify is how the lack of commitment on the part of the government group with Costa Teguise has increased."
"The residents of Avenida Buganvillas and Avenida del Golf, on several occasions, have addressed PTG, reporting that they have requested the action of the City Council. The former have been asking the city council for years to take care of the maintenance because their area suffers a constant deterioration: without cleaning, without an adequate irrigation system and the palm groves dry and abandoned and almost in darkness due to the scarce or no lighting.
The latter have been requesting actions and improvements regarding traffic for more than a year, limiting it and adapting the accesses to the residential areas. And the residents claim that they have been more than 4 years with promises on the table and without any action or improvement plan. "The truth is that they are not the only ones who raise their voices," explains Álvarez. "The residents of Piteras Street demand a cleaning and adaptation of the area and the renovation of both the press release court and the playground, as do the residents of Panama Street and Los Crotos."
According to the councilor of Primero Teguise, "in the area of La Laguna Street and surroundings, the problems are the same: deteriorated sidewalks, poor lighting, vehicles that do not respect traffic signs and a lack of maintenance in the gardens and playgrounds."
The political formation recalls that "businessmen and residents of Avenida del Mar have been complaining for years about the traffic and speed of vehicles, witnessing constant accidents with pedestrians and without obtaining a response from the City Council. The lack of correct signage and lighting of pedestrian crossings and the absence of speed limiters and traffic lights on an avenue where buses, cars, cargo trucks and taxis circulate, makes there a pedestrian insecurity throughout the avenue."
"And the lack of investment and neglect with the town of Costa Teguise is something that comes from afar. We have seen how a soccer field and a Civic Center have recently been inaugurated that have become small and ineffective because the growth and use that can be given to them has not been foreseen, empty infrastructures and lacking content most of the time."
"The problem is that they continue to think of the town as a tourist center with small residential areas and the reality is that Costa Teguise has more than 9,000 residents, so it deserves daily attention and maintenance, end colleagues of the political formation who reside in the town," they point out from the party.
In short, like the entire municipality of Teguise, the town of Costa Teguise "has been suffering in recent years from the neglect of the government groups, which has increased in this last year, ignoring one after another the requests of the residents and failing in the communication systems. After being saved in the government group thanks to the support of PP and VOX, Coalición Canaria continues to keep Costa Teguise in ostracism 8 years later," the party concludes.
"From CC, PP and VOX, they continue to ask for time to start working for the municipality, but we demand that they have the same urgency that they had to raise their salaries, to work, maintain and improve Teguise," says Jonás Álvarez. Therefore, from Primero Teguise, "we demand a Recovery Plan for Costa Teguise, of absolute urgency. A plan that reconstructs the irrigation points of each neighborhood, that grants a full maintenance of all green areas and that provides each sports court and playground with the necessary equipment so that their areas are functional throughout the year."
Finally, they ask "that the town be provided with a service of constant maintenance, improvements in sidewalks, avenues and community areas, as well as a traffic plan that provides greater security. In short, not only recover the town and improve it, adapt Costa Teguise to current times."