The Tías City Council published this Wednesday, May 22, on the Public Sector Platform, two official tenders for the transformation of "a large section" of the Avenida de las Playas in Puerto del Carmen, between the San Antonio and Lava Beach hotels, in the Matagorda urbanization. According to the City Council, the government group will allocate 3.7 million euros to these works charged to the Municipal Investment Plan 2017/2019. Part of the financing has been provided by the Cabildo de Lanzarote and by the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands.
The mayor of Tías, José Francisco Hernández, accompanied by the deputy mayor and councilor for Tourism, Amado Jesús Vizcaíno, and the councilor for Urban Planning, Saray Rodríguez, recently announced the characteristics of these two works, which are put out to tender in two different tenders, and which the City Council assures that, "due to their volume, they become two of the largest road works that will be undertaken in Lanzarote throughout this 2019".
The first of the actions will focus on a section near the San Antonio and Las Costas hotels and the Costa Luz Shopping Center. The area to be transformed is located in 15,820 square meters in the section between Noruega and Avenida de Italia streets. In this work, for an amount of 1,511,481.42 euros, "a good change will be made with the construction of a new bike lane, more public parking spaces and the creation of green areas with plantations of exotic palm trees, whose roots are suitable for this urban section", according to the mayor, Pancho Hernández.
A one-way street with twice as many parking spaces
The project for this section of the Avenida de las Playas, 650 linear meters long, and 100 meters on Avenida de Italia, will make it possible to organize the area, converting this road into a one-way street, doubling the parking capacity of vehicles in public areas. The drafting of the project has been directed by a technical engineer in Public Works, Bernardino Curbelo Morín, head of the Projects Office of the Tías City Council
The work, to be executed in five months, will allow converting that section of the Avenida de las Playas "into a single platform, where there are no height differences between the areas intended for pedestrians, bicycles and vehicles." Throughout the section, a new 1.5-meter-wide bike lane will be created, which will be paved. Until now, in this sector of Puerto del Carmen, cyclists lack a bike lane between the Pocillos and Playa Grande areas.
The City Council highlights that, in addition, this work, contemplated in the modernization plans of Puerto del Carmen, acts in one of the sections of Calle Noruega where, at the end of the road, next to the Rambla Islas Canarias, there is an action underway to execute a new urbanization with a building destined for a shopping center of 10,500 square meters built on a plot of 15,000 meters. The execution of that urbanization will allow the City Council to receive, as a free transfer, about 8,500 square meters of surface in two plots destined for green areas and playgrounds.
Without architectural barriers
"This work of transformation of the section of the Avenida, without previous public actions, whose execution is contemplated to be carried out in five months, will allow a turnaround to the concept of urban intervention in the current Avenida de las Playas", stressed the mayor.
The new work also foresees the elimination of architectural barriers, "achieving that this section of the Avenida is one hundred percent accessible, giving priority to pedestrians and differentiating the bike lane, which until now on the Avenida de Las Playas is part of the sidewalk and avenue, and providing more public parking spaces to this sector of Puerto del Carmen, where the Modernization Plan foresees the remodeling of the Hotel San Antonio and its adjoining areas where there is planned the construction of a 5-star boutique hotel, with a file in the second Modernization Plan of Puerto del Carmen".
In this regard, the mayor of Tías stressed that the commitment of the government group is to "give priority to the modernization of public spaces, where private initiative acts by rehabilitating its complexes." "We have done it in the streets Pedro Barba, Nasa and Avenida Reina Sofía (where the luxury hotel La Isla y el Mar opened) and now we are acting in this area of the Pocillos and Matagorda axis, Hernández specified, with actions in the area of the new Lava Beach hotel", he detailed.
Improvement of the promenade between Matagorda and Los Pocillos
Another of the published tenders is the improvement of the promenade between the beaches of Los Pocillos (continuation of this section of the Avenida de las Playas), and Matagorda. The action, with a tender amount of 2,162,592.62 euros, will cover the remodeling of the Avenida de las Playas, from Calle Noruega to Calle Marte. Here, the City Council recalls, a new luxury hotel of new construction has recently been built (Lava Beach).
Likewise, as in the intervention in the previous phase, the remodeling of this area seeks to integrate the bike lane, create new green areas, and adapt all the accessibility of these beaches, the most extensive on the coast of Puerto del Carmen (Pocillos and Matagorda).
This project, drafted by the technical engineer in Public Works, Bernardino Curbelo Morín, has had the collaboration and support of the entire Technical Office of the Tías City Council. The technical specifications foresee that the successful bidder will have six months to execute the entire work.
In this complex of the coast of Puerto del Carmen are located the hotels Jameos Playa, Riu Lanzarote Palace, Lanzarote Village and Hotel La Geria, as well as the Costa Mar Shopping Center, where the private initiative has programmed an intervention with a file in the second Modernization Plan of Puerto del Carmen, according to the Consistory. "Investing nearly four million euros in two works with financing from the City Council, Cabildo, Government of the Canary Islands (through the Ministry of Tourism) will make it possible to continue with the modernization of the largest and oldest tourist area on the island of Lanzarote", it is concluded from the institution.
