Benidorm opens the new pedestrian section of Tomás Ortuño

The new pedestrian section of Tomás Ortuño Street, which runs between La Garita and Los Limones Streets, is already finished, once the bulk of the work that has been developed both underground and on the surface has been completed. A performance that is "almost finished" in the absence of small final touches, as reported today by the mayor, Toni Pérez, who has verified the results of this work with the councilman of Urban Scene, José Ramón González de Zárate spokespersons of various groups of the corporation; and municipal professionals.

The mayor has indicated that with "this investment in the heart" of Benidorm "we continue with the pedestrianization made a year ago between Mercado and La Garita streets" and "what a good result it has already given". Pérez stressed that, apart from pedestrianization and the arrangement of the urban scene, this work "has included an important investment in the subsoil" where "a profound renovation of the sanitation, water and sewage networks has been carried out".

Specifically, all the pipelines have been restructured and a collector for water collection has been installed, with which it is practically guaranteed that Tomás Ortuño Street is safe from floods, unless heavy rains are registered.

The work has involved an investment of about 730,000 euros. However, and within the improvements, which have reached 200,000 euros, "it has also been acted in surrounding streets as Apollo XI, Carrasco, Maravall, Marqués de Comillas, San José Artesano, Urano or Marte", and especially in Las Escuela and Sant Antoni street, which has been converted into pedestrian.

Pérez has pointed out that after "the inconvenience" that this type of work brings, residents, merchants and tourists "are already enjoying the change in appearance and reality", which this street has had during last year.

At this point, the mayor has emphasized "one of the great challenges of this administration 2015-2019" is "recovering the lost ground" in the urban scene "due to the lack of investment in the immediately preceding years"; at the same time that it has moved that by 2018 it wants to continue in this line betting on "new performances of updating and improvement of our public roads and squares".

Final touches

Once the bulk of the work has been completed, the works are now focused on the small final touches such as the finishing of the tree pits or the gluing of some points of the pavement. It is also expected that during next week access controls will be installed to regulate the passage of authorized vehicles.