The PSOE of Lanzarote has shown its "concern" for the situation registered in the access to the Timanfaya National Park, where the accumulation of vehicles has generated "a risk scenario" that has required the intervention of the Civil Guard to regulate traffic and avoid incidents.
Benjamín Perdomo, councilor of the Socialist Group in the Cabildo and former head of the Centers for Art, Culture and Tourism, has lamented that “the current government, presided over by Oswaldo Betancort, has had two years to provide a real solution to a problem that is repeated and that threatens the safety, the experience of visitors and the preservation of one of our most valuable natural spaces.”
Perdomo recalled that "the previous government prepared and made ready for execution a comprehensive plan that included a system of shuttles and dissuasive parking lots to protect Timanfaya and avoid the recurrent collapse in its accesses." “That project, designed to reconcile the conservation of the park with an orderly and safe access, has been paralyzed by the inaction of the current government group, which seems more concerned with propaganda than with solving the problems,” he added.
For the socialist councilor, "the lack of measures by Coalición Canaria and Partido Popular not only compromises road safety, but also deteriorates Lanzarote's tourist image and puts at risk the conservation of a space of international value."
“The collapse of Timanfaya is not a summer anecdote: it is a structural problem that already had a clear roadmap for its solution. All that was needed was political will to put it into operation, and that has been lacking during these two years of Oswaldo Betancort's mandate,” Perdomo concluded.
