Remodelling of Avenida Virgen de La Peña, Caleta

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Radio Sintonia:

More than four million euros for the remodeling of Avenida Virgen de la Peña.

The City Council of Antigua in extraordinary plenary session held this Tuesday, May 10 in the morning, and chaired by the mayor, Matías Peña García, resolves to approve the project of Remodeling of the Virgen de La Peña Avenue and delegate the powers to the mayor to expedite the bidding of new projects.

 

Both points are approved despite coinciding in their vote CC and PP, abstaining from the project of Remodeling of the Virgen de La Peña Avenue in the second phase of Caleta de Fuste and voting against the delegation in the mayor of powers that allow to expedite the bidding of the projects to be executed.

The delegation to the mayor of the competence to approve the work projects when they are not yet foreseen in the budgets, that is, Matías Peña clarifies, while proceeding to include them, allows to accelerate the drafting and bidding of these projects. Taking advantage of the regulatory framework of Law 7/1985 regulating the Bases of Local Regime. Among other aspects, it means that if before a project had to go through two plenary sessions twice, first to approve the project and then the work file, now it will only be necessary once for the approval of the file, speeding up its publication and subsequent tender.
"The other point of great interest, the approval of the remodeling project of the Virgen de La Peña Avenue with a municipal investment of 4,128,905.05 euros," explains the mayor, "means promoting the contracting of all the work services that come and the important improvement in a main road in the second phase of Caleta de Fuste", and adds, Matías Peña that in the coming days this project will go out to tender, including in his report all the favorable reports that he needs from the Technical Office and other departments involved, for its immediate execution.

[Captain Sensible]

The work is going to start this month!  It will take 8 months!   
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A Google translation: 


Antigua promotes the beginning of two main works in El Castillo Avenida Virgen de La Peña and Calle Picasso
3 January 2023
13:26
Antigua promotes the beginning of two main works in El Castillo
Virgen de La Peña Avenue and Picasso Street

• The immediate signing of the reconsideration with the winning company allows the start of the Ring Road, immediately ending the Christmas Events.

• Antigua City Council coordinates with the Local Police, municipal technicians and the construction company, the security measures and road signage for the start of works.

The mayor of Antigua, Matías Peña García and the Councilor for Urban Planning, Economy and Finance, Juan Pedro Galván Lasso have witnessed this Monday, January 2, the signing between municipal technicians and construction manager that allows the beginning of the Comprehensive Remodeling of the street Picasso and Virgen de la Peña Avenue.

Having achieved the objective of bidding and awarding before the end of 2022, that is, adds the municipal councilor, guaranteed financing of more than 7 million euros in these two projects, we are now promoting the measures to start the works as soon as possible.

Both projects are carried out in parallel with an execution time of 8 months, making it possible to take advantage of resources and minimizing the resulting disturbances in road traffic.

In this sense, the mayor has coordinated with the Local Police, municipal technicians and works director, the road signs warning of the start of works in each of the sections, the installation of security fences limiting the different areas of action and the required lighting.

As of this week, signage and road safety measures are being carried out, to begin the execution of the works after the end of the Christmas Events, avoiding the current season of greatest traffic of residents or tourists.

It is not possible to avoid the inconvenience caused by a work of this magnitude, concludes Matías Peña, but we can minimize the inconveniences and maximize the final results of an embellished Ring Road, which will provide greater traffic safety, and more accessible and comfortable on streets with new paving and better lighting.

[Johnrgby]

I am failing to see why this is necessary, or even if it will achieve the stated outcome, which if I recall is to reduce the speed at which vehicles travel up and down the hill, and yes I agree some vehicles do travel too fast on this stretch, so is the intention to make what is now a single carriageway in both directions into a dual carriageway ring road or a single carriageway ring road?

[Captain Sensible]

The original plan was to do away with the central reservation, widen the footpaths and put in a cycle lane. There were a lot of protests about all the palm trees being lost so it will be interesting to see if the plan has changed.

I don't see the need for a cycle lane. I bet the powers that be have never tried to ride a bike up the hill!