The municipal council of Lucène awarded the traffic reorganization project on Parque Avenue which, due to the incorporation of the cycle path, was affected by the loss of one of the four lanes that composed it. Currently, there are two uphill lanes on this main artery of the city, from the exhibition center to the Civil Guard roundabout, and only one downhill lane. The action will reverse the order, there will be two down lanes and one up lane.
As the Councilor for Citizen Security and Mobility, Ángel Novillo, explained to ABC Córdoba, “there is more traffic density in the downward direction, in addition to supporting the exit and entry of vehicles from the access to the parking lot of a hypermarket.
Road regulations
Likewise, the intervention envisages an improvement in traffic regulation with “the construction of small roundabouts with paint and reflective materials at the height of Federico García Lorca and at the exit of Catalina Marín street, as well as on the Almazara Street, eliminating all traffic light crossings. at these intersections and in the last stretch of El Peso Street”, declared the mayor of WorksJavier Pineda. He emphasizes, however, that “for a time, the orange lights will continue so that citizens can assimilate the new traffic rules.”
On the other hand, the action will also increase the number of parking spaces, a wish requested numerous times by the residents of the neighborhood who, also thanks to the work to establish the cycle path, have seen half of the spaces parking spaces removed. . located on the street Ejido Plaza de Toros, reducing to less than twenty. Pineda explained that “the last stretch of Avenida del Parque is left with an uphill lane and a downhill lane and the parking lots, from the Glorieta del Recinto Ferial to the old Sevillana, run on battery to increase their number”.
Removal of left lane
Another requirement of the neighborhood was the increase in the loading and unloading area, a request to which the government team responded, including in this intervention the elimination of the existing left lane in the final part of the street El Peso, which “will become one allowing loading and unloading, maintaining only the correct road for vehicle circulation,” Pineda said.
The action, the cost of which amounts to 34,492 euros more VAThas a completion time of one month and the work will begin “after the Christmas holidays because, if they had started before, they did not assure us that they would be finished before the December bridge, when the agglomeration of citizens and visitors begins for the Christmas Likewise, this road is adjacent to the Paseo de Rojas which, precisely during the Christmas holidays, will again be a point of reference especially for children’s leisure.
The execution of the project will coincide with the ongoing intervention in Calle Catalina Marín and which, since yesterday Monday, has kept the road closed to traffic for a period of nine months.
