A reader has contacted La Voz to express her "discomfort" with the "total road closures" that she claims residents of the north of the island have been suffering for "too many weeks." "They are greatly harming all the residents," says this woman, who complains that the north is "blocked" and wonders why there is "so much" resurfacing.
This resident considers it "curious" that "to pave the main road of Órzola, they have made an effort to do it during the night (so as not to disturb the tourism of La Graciosa) but that, "curiously, when they had to pave the LZ-203 - the road that connects Ye and the Mirador del Río - they have blocked all the residents and prevented circulation for two days"
According to this woman, "last week they started again to cut this road to clean the roadsides." "In principle, we still don't know if they are going to pave it unnecessarily," says this resident, who says that it was "cut off for two days from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and they have only cleaned the margins of less than a kilometer."
A 14-minute journey becomes 30 or more
This, according to this affected person, means that "all the residents of Óxzola who have to go to the lands and farms or to work in Haría or Yé, have to divert to Arrieta, circulate in the direction of Yé and take a rural detour, through which they are diverting heavy machinery, trucks, buses and tourists, to cross the town of Maguez through narrow streets with no visibility."
"A journey of just 14 minutes from Órzola to Ye or Haria becomes 30 minutes or more," criticizes this reader, who points out that "even school transport is affected" with young people "having to get up even earlier to be able to pass before the closure." "And they arrive later because they have to deviate from the route, adds this woman, who affirms that "the road that connects Arrieta with Haría is also closed."
Questions the need for "so much" asphalt
This resident of the north wonders "who watches over the companies that cut the roads without any consideration." Can't they pave one lane first and then the other? Is there no option for residents to pave during the night? Why so much asphalt? There are many sections in which it was necessary, but there are many other roads that did not need resurfacing", she says.
This woman wonders "why the rush to want to pave all the roads at the same time." "Lack of organization? Lack of foresight?", questions this affected person, who would like "to know if all that asphalt has anything to do with the out-of-court settlements of Marci Acuña and Pedro San Gines."
