The Arrecife City Council has completed the urban transformation works of several streets in the La Destila neighborhood, in the capital of Lanzarote. With a municipal investment of close to 250,000 euros, the surroundings of the La Destila public school have premiered "the urban planning model that Mayor Astrid Pérez projects together with her Government group."
The capital's first mayor, Astrid Pérez, together with the councilors of Urban Planning and Public Works, Eduardo Placeres Reyes, and Roberto Herbón respectively, presented this Friday morning the completion of the works. The work, included in the Pluriannual Plan of Municipal Investments (endowed with more than 20 million euros, went out to tender in the spring of last year - in the midst of a declaration of alarm due to the pandemic - and was executed between the months of last November, and January of this 2021. During this presentation to the media, the Councilor for Mobility, Ángela Hernández, was also present.
The works, awarded for almost 250,000 euros, have allowed the integral transformation of Eugenio Dor's and El Daute streets, and several sectors of Manolo Millares and La Inés streets, in the vicinity of the La Destila public school, which opened in the summer of 2019.
The Arrecife City Council has given a new change to the urban image of these streets, a model that will continue to be projected in other streets of other neighborhoods of the capital of Lanzarote, where wide sidewalks, without barriers and with accessibility, new LED lighting, urban furniture (armchairs and paper bins), trees or vertical vegetation (depending on the width of the roads), cobblestone pavement (Calle El Daute) and integral asphalt are prioritized, in addition, all the electrical, telephone and water connections have been channeled underground, both for current installations and future wiring. The streets, in addition to the new LED lighting, have also premiered urban furniture and vertical and horizontal signage.
El Daute street will be semi-pedestrian, with access allowed only to residents
The City Council, in agreement with the management of the public school, planned the transformation of these streets with the objective that after the works, as now, the preferred access to the school is through El Daute Street, which will now have restricted access where only residents of the area can travel in vehicles. The entire El Daute street has been paved with cobblestones.
Benches and trees on La Inés street, next to the main entrance to the school
The work, already completed, has allowed the expansion of the sidewalk surface in the main accesses to the school, through La Inés and El Daute streets, in addition to installing benches and planting trees in the central accesses to this school, a new building that entered service in the academic year 2019/2020.
The mayor has advanced that projects are already being prepared to transform other streets in the neighborhoods of El Lomo, Valterra, Argana and La Destila, which will bear this stamp of urban intervention that aims to turn Arrecife into a model capital in the medium and long term where environmental sustainability prevails.
Astrid Pérez declared that "in a few months similar works will continue in streets interconnected to this sector of La Destila, such as El Greco, Manolo Millares and Almirante Boado Endeiza".
Finally, the City Council points out that "the capital's Government group has planned to provide greater road safety in areas where schools are located, such as the Nieves Toledo school, located between the neighborhoods of El Lomo and Valterra, where a global transformation project of several streets in the vicinity of Calle El Indio, in the area of the Nieves Toledo School, is contemplated".
