"Puerto del Carmen needs a change", said the Minister of Tourism, Rita Martín, during her visit to the works of the Avenida de Las Playas in the town. In this line, Martín has announced that a municipal ordinance will soon be published to improve the shop windows and stores of the Avenue. The counselor has visited the works together with the director of Planning and Tourism Promotion, Sandra González, and the mayor of Tías, José Juan Cruz, among others.
As a solution to this renovation, she stated that those establishments that are "out of the market" can take advantage of the Law of urgent measures for their renovation. And Martín has pointed out that "we must incentivize those owners." Likewise, Martín insisted on "the need to strengthen the destination with quality improvements in tourism infrastructures to be more competitive and mitigate, as far as possible, the effects of the international economic crisis."
The council led by Martín has invested 1,476,254 euros for the rehabilitation of the Avenida de las Playas in Puerto del Carmen and another six million for infrastructure projects in the municipality.
In the case of Avenida de las Playas, it has acted on a length of 850 linear meters that runs between the confluence of Guanapay and Anzuelo streets with Avenida de Las Playas, and affects a width of sixteen meters measured from the front of the alignments of facades of the building towards the sea.
A single lane and direction of traffic (Matagorda direction) and a constant width of four meters are executed on the Avenue. The parking lots are also reordered, placing them exclusively attached to the sidewalk opposite the promenade, leaving the sea side free and with this it is intended to avoid the "screen effect" of the parking lots that prevented the contemplation of the promenade and the sea.
Access problems
Regarding these characteristics, the popular spokesman in the City Council of Tías, José Ramón Hernández, stated in the program Buenos días Lanzarote that "there are many problems with these works because, as happened these days, a person was run over in a pedestrian crossing in the casino area and as there was traffic and there is only one direction, the services of the ambulance were required and could not circulate until it chose to do so by the bike lane".
In addition, he pointed out that "large vehicles have a hard time when they join the avenue, which shows that there was a mistake by the technicians who designed the project and by the politicians who accepted it." The popular spokesman has also criticized the lack of parking that the avenue will suffer and has pointed out that this little space will be critical in summer when people come to Puerto del Carmen by car.
In this regard, the Minister of Tourism, Rita Martín, explains that her department provided the money through a subsidy, but stresses that both the drafting of the project and the bidding of the works depended directly on the City Council of Tías and that, therefore, it will be the one who has to analyze now if any correction is necessary.
