The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, the first deputy mayor, Ángel Domínguez, and the councilor of Public Works of Yaiza, Jonatan Lemes, met this Thursday in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with the director of Road Infrastructure of the Government of the Canary Islands, José Luis Delgado, to discuss issues of interest to the southern municipality, including the present and especially the future of the 2.4-kilometer-long road that connects the roundabout of the IES Yaiza and the main entrance to Puerto Calero.
In this regard, the City Council has proposed to the regional government that, in the imminent revision of the Canary Islands Road Catalog, said section be classified as a road of regional interest and that therefore the Autonomous Community assumes its ownership. However, the mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, has confirmed that "the City Council not only has drafted the rehabilitation project of this road budgeted at nearly 950,000 euros", but that "shortly" it will put its execution out to public tender "because the conditions of the road do not allow further delays."
The mayor of Yaiza affirms that "the Government shares the idea of agreeing on the reclassification of the road, taking into account that within the project for Lanzarote this specific road will also be considered within the island network as an alternative access road to the port of Playa Blanca, and more so now with the port expansion project that is about to be completed."
Yaiza will improve the safety of the road to Puerto Calero by paving its entire route, building shoulders and organizing the conduction of rainwater. The project also contemplates the paving of the esplanade used as a bus parking lot for the IES Yaiza.
In line with the traffic that derives and may derive from the new port of Playa Blanca, already with the docking of cruise ships, Yaiza also proposed to the Government the study of the duplication of the main road Yaiza – Playa Blanca. "We have to prepare for a future that is almost already a present, so the needs require that the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo of Lanzarote and us as a City Council sit down to discuss the improvement of an infrastructure, the LZ2, which is of indisputable island influence," said Óscar Noda.