Works on Avenida de las Playas in Matagorda resume on Monday - Lanzarote, Islas Canarias, España
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The City Council transfers the restart of the project to the tourist employer
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Location: Islas Canarias, Spain
Date Posted: 08/15/2021
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The City Council of Tías has reported the resumption of repair work on Avenida de las Playas, in the area of ??Matagorda, next Monday. Representatives of the municipal corporation and hotel establishments in the Matagorda area met on Friday, at the headquarters of the Insular Association of Hotel and Apartment Entrepreneurs of Lanzarote (Asolan), in a meeting coordinated by its president, Susana Pérez, and by the mayor of Tías, José Juan Cruz.
The works, which had to be stopped due to technical problems, will resume on Monday in order to condition that area to Pluto Street (at the height of the Hotel Jameos). Everything will be left finished except the asphalt of the bike lane and some other elements for which a new project will have to be drafted and it is expected to have it finished in its entirety before the summer.
The governing group of the City of Tías, formed by PSOE, Lanzarote Avanza (LAVA) and Lanzarote en Pie-Sí Podemos, evidence after the beginning of the mandate last summer that for this repair project of the Avenida de las Playas stretch of Marte street and the road to Las Playas (Hotel Beatriz) in 2017, two extensions had already been requested previously, in 2018 and 2019, to the body that finances it, which is the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands.
By not executing this project during the year 2019, the new governing group of the City of Tías was facing the return of the grant (about two million euros) and the payment of interest.
“It is for this reason that, from the City Council of Tías, the arrangements were made in extremis with the Government of the Canary Islands to get an extension until the end of this year and award the project to June 30 last year, and then began the works ", explained the City Council.
"What we did not expect to find during the execution of the project has been a series of inconveniences that have forced us to make modifications to the project as far as possible. Now it's time to write a new project for what we have pending this section and for the next from Pluto Street to Mars Street (Jameos Playa roundabout) doing things well and with the consensus of traders in this area, "said municipal sources.
Susana Pérez has expressed her satisfaction with the start of the works that will allow access to the affected hotel establishments and, "of course, that for security reasons everything is conditioned. We reiterate our satisfaction and hope that the deadlines established in the execution are met. ".
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