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The Councilor for Development, Roque Ortiz, announced this morning that the tender has been approved for the first phase of the pedestrianization project of the avenue Alfonso X el Sabio, which will, according to forecasts, allow the works to start after the next Christmas.
In this way, and once the bidding is published in the BOE, companies will have a deadline of 40 calendar days to submit their bids, while the execution period is ten months and the maximum budget is 3,199,312 euros.
The works of this first phase, will be executed in three sequential times: west carriageway (Santa Clara), east carriageway (Santa Ana) and central walkway, allowing in this way that there are always two areas available for pedestrian and road traffic.
During the last quarter of the year and before the beginning of this work, the different service companies (Aguas de Murcia, Vodafone, Iberdrola and Redexis Gas) will proceed to the renewal of their networks.
This project will allow the incorporation of more than 14,000 square meters of new pedestrian area, providing linearity to the entire walk from Santo Domingo to Plaza Circular.
The action will be carried out in two phases: Phase I, which has already been tendered, and which ranges from Santo Domingo to Jaime I (with an area of ​​7,600 m2), and Phase II (6,800 m2) From Jaime I to La Circular.
Participation has been the axis that has articulated the project design process, integrating the proposals and allegations of the different neighborhood and associative groups, and consensuando them with the technical observations of the Official Association of Architects of the Region and the General Directorate of Cultural Property .
This will create a huge pedestrian itinerary of about 50,000 square meters in the historic center of the city from La Glorieta to Circular Square, along Plaza Belluga, Trapería, Santo Domingo and Alfonso X.
This initiative will allow Alfonso X Avenue a total pedestrianization of the space that restricts the traffic of vehicles to residents, public transport (taxis), school zone and charge-discharge in regulated hours, circulating in a single direction towards Santo Domingo along the road West, the one next to the church of Las Claras.
The current terraced area will be reconfigured without increasing it and a new system of intelligent waste collection and adaptable low power LED lighting will be implemented.
With all this is sought to reduce noise and pollution on this axis providing greater tranquility neighborhood, while enabling new spaces for public stay and walk
The project includes the habilitation of a two-way bike path that will run along the current west causeway.
Likewise, the current public bicycle rental system will be maintained in the immediate vicinity of the new Avenue.
Likewise, the existing trees will be maintained along the whole walk, more specimens will be planted (orange trees that will cross the west side and also palm trees) and shrub vegetation in beds like 'orchards' in the east side, reaching Tripling the current vegetation and creating new spaces of natural shade.
The pavement materials of the whole avenue will be based on stone in different formats and textures, a material of great resistance and formal qualities.
It should be remembered that this project has been exposed in a participatory process through which the proposals and allegations of the different neighborhood and associative groups, political groups, the Ecologistas en Acción Association and other individuals have been integrated, agreeing with the technical observations of the College Official of Architects of the Region and the General Direction of Cultural Property.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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