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- The orange formation denounces the systematic breach of the plenary agreements related to road safety in the municipality

Cartagena, Friday, February 15.

The bridge of the neighborhood of La Concepción, popularly known as Quitapellejos, which connects Calle Real with the neighborhood of La Concepción, has destroyed for months one of the ends of the urban security parapet that separates the pedestrian zone and the road.

Citizens has asked without luck to the councilor responsible for Infrastructure, Juan Pedro Torralba, to take charge, "the iron has been uncovered and if a cyclist or motorcyclist has a fall in that area we can regret an easily avoidable misfortune", explained the spokesman for Cs Cartagena, Manuel Padín.

The spokesman hopes that this time the PSOE Government will be more agile, "we spent months denouncing the elements of separation and security not approved that were located along a hundred meters from the median of Sebastian Feringán street at the height of Perpetual Hospital Socorro, they only retired under pressure from the television cameras, a few days before the stage of the Tour of Spain that passed through Cartagena.

Agreements that are not met

In addition, the spokesman for Citizens has reported that the teaching staff of the Alameda de Cartagena School has continued to collect some points of conflict for road safety in the center of Cartagena, "there are more dangerous crossings without signaling, and several examples of incorrect container placement annexes to pedestrian crossings preventing adequate visibility, such as those located in Juan Fernández street ".

On the other hand, Citizens recalls that the agreement to increase security measures in the long journey of Ramón y Cajal in the neighborhood of Cuatro Santos and in the vicinity of the San Vicente de Paúl School is still pending.

Specifically, the orange training achieved in the November 2018 plenary session that urgent actions were taken as a matter of urgency to reduce the risk of accidents in Ramón y Cajal through the installation of traffic lights or other speed reducers and as for the educational center. approved a battery of measures for the installation of traffic lights in the vicinity of the school and the placement of speed bumps in the vicinity of the roundabout;

Also included was the installation of vertical signage for speed limitation due to proximity to the school zone, places for disabled people were set up, and parking lots, parking lots, hangers, or bicycle safes were installed.

These claims were collected by Cs after meeting with the president of the AMPA of this center, "measures that affect a school population of 1,700 students, of minors who do not have to suffer a daily risk to their physical integrity in this municipality" , warns Manuel Padín.

Crossing between the streets of Ciclamen and Écija

Citizens also recriminates the breach of another agreement of Cs in the Plenary, which has to do with the crossing of the street Ciclamen with the street Ecija "is a conflict zone from the point of view of safety, where there have been several accidents , one of them recent and with serious consequences, "says Padín.

In this area, between the Sports Palace and the road of Tentegorra, the neighbors complain that the lack of visibility forces them to join from Ecija Street to the street Ciclamen going to practically half of the road, and have requested repeated Sometimes the City Council that applies security measures such as vertical signs, traffic lights, or any other.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena