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Opinion of Gent de Dénia: "We are facing an image policy"

23 July 2020 - 14: 53

The Gent de Denia Group, first of all, considers that it is necessary to dedicate the maximum effort to obtain subsidies that help improve infrastructure and the quality of life in our city. It also considers that it is necessary to prioritize actions and not carry out isolated actions that may impede mobility and coexistence between pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles, loading and unloading, the market, commerce, hotels, offices, etc. We think that applying for a grant to the Alicante Provincial Council for the Pedestrianization Works of Glorieta Pais Valencià and Marqués de Campo without a global plan for the entire city that justifies undertaking the works at the moment, is at least crazy. It is not possible to go sticking blindly by pedestrianizing areas of the city randomly, as this will cause that instead of humanizing it, what we will do is make it inaccessible and uninhabitable. Even more in the economic moments that we are suffering and the uncertainty that the near future holds for us.

In order for businesses, both downtown and neighborhoods to function, they need mobility capacity, if the accesses to business areas are closed and there is no guarantee that there will be free or cheap nearby parking, an immediate transport service, or services promotion and ease of use of trade and hospitality, it will be difficult for those small entrepreneurs who also suffer from internet sales, shopping centers and this crisis like no other. Why these other sales systems work: because their use is easy. If we make it HARD, we will gradually end the battered local economy.

Although a priori it seems that pedestrianization benefits the hospitality industry, it is not really true. Well, this is real when there is an influx of tourists, because they can fill their businesses, but in the off-season months and on weekdays, the streets are deserted. When there is movement of vehicles, businesses also move. Why the municipal market works, apart from the quality of its products, because customers have other alternatives than going loaded with the purchase to Torrecremada, to the port or to Joan Fuster, which would be what would happen if the center to traffic.

We do not want to lose the grant, we do not say that these projects are not technically correct. It could be these or others, but always planning, studying mobility, parking lots, first we would look for the creation of nearby parking spaces, call it the reversal of the La Vía parking lot, look for central parking lots, such as the building on Calle Patricio Ferrándiz-Carlos Sentí- Calle La Via, etc ..., that is, giving alternatives to pedestrianization. We think that a GLOBAL MOBILITY PROJECT and a GLOBAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY are NECESSARY and subsequently undertake, based on this, the measures and works necessary to pedestrianize Glorieta, Marqués de Campos and other streets, if the Plan so estimates and there is consensus with all sectors.

Therefore, much to our regret, we are NOT going to support the application for this grant, because we would request it for other more urgent projects. Because we are facing an image policy. Because they forget the other neighborhoods, which suffer great deficiencies and dedicate themselves mainly to the center, which is what is most seen. Because we think that this grant should be dedicated to other more necessary and urgent works, that there are many.

Comments
  1. Joselito says:

    What alternative does Mr. Vicente give us to those of us who do not live in the center and have to go to him to go to the Market, Bank, Shops, Offices ...?

  2. Martato says:

    The pedestrianization of c / Marques de Campo will be a huge mistake. Commerce, hospitality, the owners of the premises, in case they have had little with the pandemic, will go directly to ruin. What is Mr. Mayor weighing in ????? surely it does not occur to him that he could go down in local "history", like the Mayor who loaded the Calle del Marques and turned it into a "dead" street. What a pity, Mr. Mayor, what a pity.

    • Xavi says:

      You have to leave the cave and see that the world does not end in Marqués de Campo. There are many examples of the benefit of recovering the streets for people. In this news there is talk of 2 from this country, but there are many more ...

      Closing the center was going to collapse Pontevedra and Vitoria ... But now nobody wants to go back.
      Both cities proudly display the urban model undertaken a few years ago. At first it caused a great conflict, but few now protest the expulsion of the car from the center.
      https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2018-11-13/pontevedra-vitoria-peatonalizacion-coches_1643725/

  3. William says:

    The road (Carretera Provincial del Barranc del Monyo) to Les Rotes requires a lot of drainage. After each pluja, the road floods directly to molts llocs


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