Fewer parking spaces in PamplonaThis was announced on Thursday by the Pamplona City Council, headed by Mayor Joseba Asirón. The council wants Enjoy the paving work on Abejeras Street For “transforming street design“.
Among other measures, The width of the cycle path will be widened and its protective strip to adapt it to current regulations. To do this, the width of the vehicle traffic lanes will be reduced and 31 parking spaces will be removedwhich is being considered for “relocation” to surrounding streets.
It should be recalled that this Wednesday, the Pamplona City Hall also reported the Temporary closure of a car park in the Navarrese capital.
This is one of the proposals that will be discussed at the Mobility Council this Thursdayas explained in a press conference by the Councilor Delegate for the Habitable and Sustainable City, Borja Izagirre, and the head of the Mobility Service, Alexia Canto. Izaguirre stressed that the paving of Abejeras street It is an opportunity to “rethink the current design of streets and generate a new arrangement of space” in order to create a “softer and more equitable environment” for pedestrians and cyclists.
THE The performance will take place in the months of November and December.with a budget of 280,000 euros. First, the road will be asphalted in the section of approximately 700 meters between the roundabout located at the intersection with Iturrama Street and the intersection with Zaragoza Avenue.
According to the Consistory, today Abejeras Street does not comply with the technical instructions currently applied in Pamplona for the construction of cycling infrastructureas well as other aspects related to the dimensions of sidewalks or the location of parking spaces.
He cycle path It is 1.70 metres wide and its protection strip is 0.20 metres, “with separators in poor condition or even missing”. The advances of the pedestrian crossings do not have a differentiated section of sidewalk for bicycles and the semi-advanced stop of the villavesa is also not correct, since the cycle path disappears for about 30 metres and the bicycles have to pass in front of the shelter.
Next to the actions on the cycle path and on the roadIn the four advanced pedestrian crossings located on the right side of the street, towards the city centre, cycle sidewalks with differentiated surface will be installed to ensure the continuity of the cycle path. Pedestrian crossings will be marked on these cycle sidewalks in order to highlight the priority of pedestrians in these areas. The intervention in Abejeras Street includes the removal of 31 parking spaces along the road. Pamplona City Council is studying its “movement” to adjacent streets “in order to minimize the impact.”
Extension of the cycle path
In the section between the oval roundabout at the intersection with Iturrama Street and the intersection with Serafín Olave Street, the width of the cycle path up to 2.50 meters plus 0.90 meters of protective strip. The current parking spaces remain on the right side of the road. The meters of extension of the cycle path will be obtained from the reduction of the width of the traffic lanes, the adjustment of the width of the existing paved island immediately after the roundabout with Iturrama Street and the modification of the current dimensions of the advanced pedestrian crossing in front of the Santísimo Sacramento school.
THE Loading and unloading areas and waste containers will remain in their current location. In addition, the start of the cycle path next to this roundabout on Iturrama Street will be executed correctly, allowing the pedestrian sidewalk to have a correct width.
Between Serafín Olave and Erletokieta Street, the width of the cycle path up to 2.50 metres, although the protective strip will be 0.50 metres and the current in-line parking strip on the right-hand side towards the city centre will be removed. The current loading and unloading area will be moved to the semi-battery parking strip on the left-hand side, while the waste containers will remain in the same location.
Between the intersection with Erletokieta and the Santa Catalina Labouré school, the semi-advanced stop of la villavesa This will become a stop in the lane itself. The canopy will be moved forward to allow for a cycle track to be built behind it. Parking will be changed from the current semi-battery strip on the left side to two lanes of parking in a row on both sides.
CONNECTION WITH THE JULIÁN GAYARRE STREET CYCLE PATH
Finally, in the section between the Santa Catalina Labouré school and Zaragoza Avenue, one of the two traffic lanes will be removed to widen the cycle path with a width of 2.50 metres with a 0.50 meter protection strip. In the section there are some containers, currently on the sidewalk, which will be located in the new parking strip on the right side of the road, thus freeing up space for pedestrians.
Inside at the intersection with Zaragoza Avenue, the cycle path will continue until it joins the existing cycle path and this gives access to Julián Gayarre Street. To do this, it will be necessary to remove a small section of the current sidewalk, transforming it into a road and then marking the cycle path, in order to continue to allow the correct right turn for vehicles coming from Abejeras.
OTHER ACTIONS IN FUENTE DEL HIERRO AND LAS VILLAVESAS
THE Mobility Council He also learned about two other projects that the Pamplona City Council is going to carry out and that already have a budget allocation granted through the framework agreement for the execution of works aimed at improving mobility and sustainability. These are: transformation of Fuente del Hierro street and the works to carry out eleven advanced stops for the Villavesas in different parts of the city.
He Pamplona City Hall will complete by the end of the year the transformation of Fuente del Hierro Street “into a road with greater accessibility and greater landscape richness“. The second phase of the works includes the section between Iturrama and Serafín Olave streets with a budget of 335,721.42 euros. The works include the creation of green spaces functioning as rain gardens between the road and the sidewalk, the creation of advanced sidewalk crossings, reducing the length of crossings and pedestrians and, finally, the widening of the central reservation.
On the other hand, the City Council of Pamplona will invest 144,830.97 euros in works to improve accessibility to eleven regional urban transport stops in the neighborhoods of San Jorge, Etxabakoitz, San Juan, Ermitagaña, Milagrosa and Lezkairu. In each of them, advances will be made so that the urban bus stops on its own traffic lane for the boarding and disembarking of users.
