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Citizens attacks the situation of trees in the municipality of Cartagena and calls for urgent solutions (13/05/2018)

- The orange mayor, Ana Rama, regrets that the local government has allowed the loss of more than 200 trees that have disappeared due to diseases or drying, "we still have no firm plan to replace them, and projects for new plantations are still paralyzed "

- Cs will ask at the next ordinary plenary session to proceed, as soon as possible, to the preventive pruning and cleaning of the arboreal specimens located on the sidewalk of Guardia Civil street in the esplanade of the Cenit

The maintenance of more than eight thousand trees planted in streets and squares in the urban areas of Cartagena still suffers from the problems of not having a good maintenance plan.

The current one remains provisional, improvised and precarious, since the municipal garden and green zone care contract expired in 2013, and the judicial controversy over this contract is still valid.

The mayor of Citizens, Ana Rama, recalled that the City still has pending, "apply the motion we proposed on protection of our arboreal heritage, approved unanimously in June 2017, update the catalog of monumental trees, start the procedures to create an ordinance for the protection of this natural property, and the placement of identification signs for the different arboreal, shrub and native species, in the main parks of the municipality and throughout the Casco Antiguo ".

In addition, the orange councilor regrets that the local government has allowed the loss of more than 200 trees that have disappeared due to diseases or drying up, as municipal sources confessed, "we still have no firm plan to replace them, and the projects for new plantations are paralyzed, the situation in the councils is even worse. "

"This is directly linked to the apparent lack of shade in this municipality, and that does so much damage during the hottest months," the mayor explained that in this regard he recalled that "the plenary agreement we promoted to implement a Plan in Cartagena de Sombra is still sleeping in a drawer waiting to be executed. "

On the other hand, the Municipal Citizens Group has announced that it will request at the next regular plenary session that the preventive pruning and cleaning of the arboreal specimens located on the sidewalk of Guardia Civil street in the esplanade be carried out as soon as possible. of the Cenit.

For Ana Rama, "the possibility of falling branches is a danger for pedestrians, schoolchildren, relatives who accompany them, merchants and neighbors who come every Wednesday to the weekly market."

According to Rama, "over the years some of these trees have been detached, mainly from the family of the poplars, located next to the street fence of the Guardia Civil, on the esplanade of the Cenit, which gave rise to the last year at the peak of these specimens, without having been sanitized to date ".

"Despite the local complaints, these trees now represent, without maintenance or pruning, a danger for pedestrians and for the physical integrity of the street vendors and vehicles, we do not know if it continues to be negatively affected by bad planning. previous responsible for Sustainable Development, but we are very clear that we want an immediate action, because we do not want to regret any misfortune, "said the mayor of Cs.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena

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