Benidorm improves a park and ride parking facility in El Moralet with capacity for 1,000 vehicles

Benidorm City Council is expanding its network of park and ride car parks with the development of a municipal plot in El Moralet, located next to José Ramón García Antón avenue and behind the TRAM central station. A plot that "was already used as parking without any order" and that thanks to this action "adaptation and expansion" that "will increase its capacity to 1,000 vehicles, compared to the current 300, as reported by the mayor today , Toni Pérez.

Pérez has visited the area today to check the progress of the work accompanied by the councilman of Mobility, José Ramón González de Zárate, coinciding with the day of the European Week of Mobility aimed at the promotion of responsible use of the car.

The mayor explained that, in addition to residents, this parking is very functional for residents of the region who move to Benidorm "for work, studies or to make purchases" since "has an unbeatable connectivity." Thus, it has in the vicinity with the TRAM, with urban bus stops and with a base of the bicycle rental service.

The action will be developed in two phases so that users have parking at all times. The first one, which is being executed at the moment, focuses on the lower part of the plot, the one closest to the TRAM station, where the ground has already been compacted and leveled and a layer of gravel is being extended. This first phase will be completed "at the end of next week", at which time this part of the parking will be put into service-some 500 seats-, moving the work to the upper part of the plot.

The "adaptation and extension" work includes the creation of several accesses to the site and pedestrian traffic zones, as well as the installation of lighting, traffic lights and zebra crossings.

Pérez recalled that Benidorm already has 30 car parks that add up to 4,752 seats, and that these are "located in strategic areas" where there was a need for parking. The mayor has emphasized that this network of car parks spaces is part of the city strategy set out in the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, promoted since mid-2015 and approved in 2016, which includes many actions that are progressively implemented.

The City Council has published a diptych in which the 30 dissuasive car parks and their capacity are related, and in which invited the citizens to park their vehicle in one of these areas and access the city center using public transport or bicycle .

Unskilled youth employment program

In addition to the technicians of several departments, the Technical Services and several concessionaires, in the adaptation of the parking lot of El Moralet, several young people under 30 years of age hired by the City Council are also working through the EMPUJU program, financed with European funds.

Green area

The mayor has indicated that these car parks "would have a better service and of more quality" if the modification of the Mobility Ordinance was approved and with it the creation and regulation of the green zone, which would be free for the residents. "But while the ordinance and the green zone await this government does not stop generating possibilities so that the neighbors can have more parking spaces."