Puerto de la Cruz Begins Road Paving on Zamora, Santo Domingo Streets
Puerto de la Cruz City Council has launched a 444,647-euro, three-month road paving project on Zamora and Santo Domingo streets, part of an urban renewal plan that will alter the Coso Carnival parade route.
The Puerto de la Cruz City Council has started road paving on Zamora and Santo Domingo streets. This work is part of the city's ongoing urban renewal plan. David Hernández, the Councilor for Sustainable City, noted that the plans were made with local businesses, keeping in mind the city's cultural and festive events.
Improving these roads is the biggest part of the project. Zamora Street will be repaved entirely. On Santo Domingo Street, only the section called Punta del Viento will be worked on. Here, the old cobblestones will be replaced, as requested by the Heritage department of the Cabildo de Tenerife.
The project costs 444,647 euros and will take three months. This budget also covers work on Teobaldo Power-El Peñón, Cólogan, and Cooperativa streets. The city's Sustainable City and Festivities departments worked together to ensure the work would not disrupt the Carnival program too much. David Hernández and Javier González, who lead these departments, confirmed that the Mascarita Ponte Tacón event, on February 20, will follow its usual route from San Telmo hermitage to Plaza del Charco, passing through Santo Domingo Street. This is because the work on that section is expected to be finished by then. However, the Coso parade route will be different. It will start at Martíanez beach and then go along Avenida Colón, Plaza de los Reyes Católicos, Calle Obispo Pérez Cáceres, Avenida Familia Bethencourt y Molina, Plaza de la Constitución, Pérez Zamora, Valois streets, and Avenida Aguilar y Quesada.
"The work needs to happen; we can't put it off any longer," explained Hernández. He added that the project has already been postponed three times at the request of local businesses: first for Easter, then for the July festivities, and again last September for the Christmas shopping season. "Finally, the council decided to restart the work on January 12, and that's what we did," he said. Hernández also mentioned that if there are no unexpected problems, the work should be finished by Easter.