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"While the City Council is allowed to build sidewalks of 0.80 and up to 0.40 meters wide, as for example in Rambla de Algezares street, we find that they have been unsuccessfully claiming others for years and that they are necessary to avoid accidents in dangerous areas and black spots, this is the case because the local government neither makes nor allows the municipal councils to carry out these actions ", claim the socialist spokesperson, Susana Hernández;
and councilor Maite Espinosa
The Socialist Group and representatives of the PSOE in municipal meetings demand the City Council to adapt space for pedestrians in municipally owned roads in which they are threatened by sharing site with motor vehicles.
The spokesperson of the PSOE in the Consistory, Susana Hernandez, and socialist councilor Maite Espinosa, after visiting some of those towns such as Javalí Viejo, Algezares and Los Dolores and undergo the risk of walking on the road, denounce a latent problem and demand that "a solution be given once and for all."
"The risk of being run over is there and this is the absence of a sidewalk, which should not be too wide but enough to be a safe space from the road point of view", say the two councilors, who remember that in these districts there are already sidewalks of a width less than the one and a half meters that the standard specifies.
"While the City Council has built sidewalks of 0.80 and up to 0.40 meters in width over the past few months, such as Rambla de Algezares, we find that they have been unsuccessfully claiming others for years and that they are necessary. To avoid accidents in dangerous areas and black spots, this is because the local government does not do anything and the municipal boards are not authorized to carry out these actions, "points out Hernández and Espinosa.
In the case of Javalí Viejo, the problem is centered on the MU-560 road, which connects Molina de Segura with Alcantarilla, an area well traveled by people who walk in one direction or another.
"This road, on its way through the hamlet, has about a kilometer and a half of linear travel and about half of that route has no sidewalks and the Administration refuses to build them because they can not meet the width required for people with disability ", says the pedáneo mayor of the town, José Francisco Navarro.
"We have made arrangements with the City Council and it would be necessary to proceed with some expropriations, as there are neighbors who give up the space and another does not, but it is something that has to be executed since we have been asking for it for three years from the municipal council," adds Navarro.
Older is the petition in Algezares, as relates its pedáneo mayor, Juan José Garre.
"It's a historical problem that we have been dragging on for more than 20 years," he says, referring to the absence of sidewalks on Avenida de La Alberca, which links Algezares with Santo Ángel, around 300 linear meters.
"On this road, which is a lot of pedestrian traffic on the part of neighbors who walk to catch the bus to Murcia or to go to the supermarket in Santo Angel, we found a small shoulder of barely one meter in the widest site and could make a sidewalk, because there the danger of being run over is evident and the usual scares, "he says.
Garre says that the problem "has a solution, but you have to be willing to find it" and adds that they have "too many years" waiting for a convincing answer.
"There is even a project budgeted at 126,000 euros to build these sidewalks, but time passes and the PP at City Hall does nothing to move forward," he says.
In Los Dolores the demand to build sidewalks occurs in the Murcia Region avenue, the old road that goes to Beniaján.
They are around a hundred meters where there are houses very close to the road and where there has never been a sidewalk.
"There is no need to expropriate here, because the neighbors signed their cession of the land to the Community two years ago, but the procedures have not yet begun," explains the vice president of the municipal board of this district, Lola Lacárcel.
"In this area there are warehouses that sell in bulk and the employees who work there walk along the road, often at the risk of being run over," the socialist spokesperson told the municipal council.
Javalí Viejo, Algezares and Los Dolores are just three of the many districts in which walking simply to go home, go shopping or to the bus stop is risky because you have to step on the asphalt.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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