The Cabildo of Lanzarote, through the Department of Public Works, has awarded the contract for the transformation of the streets surrounding 'El Almacén' in the island's capital. Specifically, these are Periodista Viera, José Betancort and La Porra streets, where different interventions will be carried out such as the "repaving" of the street or the "elimination of barriers" by creating a single platform, thus achieving a more "friendly" urban design.
"The fundamental priority of this work is to improve the functionality and aesthetics of these streets in the center of Arrecife, also responding to the needs of residents and merging tradition and modernity," says the vice president and Minister of Public Works, Jacobo Medina, who also emphasizes that with this intervention "pedestrian mobility will be improved by widening the sidewalks."
"Pedestrian mobility will be improved by widening the sidewalks."
The transformation of these roads also contemplates the "underground channeling for the distribution of low voltage energy to each street" to, a posteriori and in a second phase, "undertake the work of the new public lighting network." Yonathan de León, positively values the imminent start of this reform of the roads in the center of the capital. "There have been many years of partial interventions in these three streets, and both residents and tourists who visit us deserve this transformation that will give a 180 degree turn to the city," he adds.
This work, awarded to the company Transporte y Excavaciones Tiagua S.L and with an execution period of seven months, has an "investment of 558,205.74 euros" coming "85% from the European Regional Development Fund" (ERDF) and the remaining percentage from own funds of the first Corporation.
