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The councilor of the PSOE in the City of Lorca, David Romera, has denounced that the environment of the Iron Bridge, in full September Fair, "is converted into a landfill where they accumulate litrons, plastic, packaging of all kinds and garbage", both the course of the Guadalentín River and the access ramps to this centennial infrastructure.

It also calls for greater police presence in the area "as it is usual that some vandals cause damage to the street furniture, are painted on walls and public spaces, objects are thrown at vehicles that circulate through the lower pass of Santa Clara and young people make a bottle on weekends ", which has generated the concern of many residents of the area.

Romera indicates that this situation is not new because the Municipal Socialist Group has been denounced on several occasions the need to clean and clean a place that is very popular with Lorca and offers "a very poor image of a city that wants to become a tourist reference ", especially when there is a unique heritage element for tourists and visitors such as the Puente de Hierro, an example of industrial architecture of the late nineteenth century, being the only one of the Region of Murcia of this type applied to the railroad.

"The image of neglect and neglect offered by this monument and its surroundings, shows the null interest that the PP Government team has to take advantage of the tourist resources that Lorca has as it is the Iron Bridge as a singular element, and to have the city clean, especially now with the September Fair, which is when we have to give our best image, "he says.

For all this, the socialist mayor asks the PP government team to carry out "a battery of actions aimed at eradicating the aspect of degradation and marginal area that presents the environment of the Puente de Hierro" with the cleaning of the channel of the river and access ramps, full of litrons, plastic and garbage;

that the painted graffiti on the street furniture be cleaned;

that the security panels that prevented the throwing of objects to the lower passage of Santa Clara be relocated;

and that the presence of security forces in the area be increased, especially at night and on weekends, to discourage the large number of youngsters practicing in the area, and to avoid carrying out acts of vandalism.

Finally, Romera has once again insisted on the "need to restore and value the Iron Bridge of Lorca, designed by the English engineer Neil Kennedy in 1891 to link the stations of San Diego and Sutullena, saving the course of Guadalentín, the which appears with oxidized irons and broken lights ", despite being a magnificent example in Lorca of the architecture emanating from the Industrial Revolution.

Source: PSOE Lorca