The Consistory and Autonomous Community calls for a meeting this Friday to the neighbors and businessmen of the section between the IES Ramón Arcas and Avenida Santa Clara to explain the details of the first phase of this investment, which can also be consulted on the web www .avenidajuancarloslorca.com.
The Councilor of Works of the City of Lorca, Eulalia Ibarra, has reported that "thanks to the subsidy of the Ministry of Development and Infrastructures on Monday, January 30 will start the much sought after improvement works on Avenida Juan Carlos I, beginning with The stretch between the Ramon Arcas Institute and Santa Clara Avenue, for this we have redoubled efforts to bring information of interest to neighbors, merchants, customers, students and visitors.
Ibarra explained that "one of the measures is the launch of the website www.avenidajuancarloslorca.com where any citizen can obtain information about the project to be executed and the progress of it, being also accessible from the portal of In addition, all the neighbors and merchants of this area are summoned to a meeting this Friday at 8:30 pm in the auditorium of the Ramón Arcas Institute to inform them of the details of the development of the works in this part of the Main artery of the city ".
The council stressed that "it emphasizes that the companies awarded the works will put a person in permanent dialogue with the merchants and another with the pedestrians. A commission has also been created to monitor the work in which, in addition to the director of The work and the executing companies of the project participate these representatives, representatives of the Local Police, the councils of Works, Transport and Commerce, to solve any possible incidents and unforeseen.
In these meetings it has been determined that in this first phase the only modification that will suffer the urban buses will be in the line that goes to the Parque Almenara Shopping Center, which in the Apolonia-La Viña direction will not cross Juan Carlos I Avenue, but will carry out the Same itinerary as the one that goes towards the Hospital, by Puente La Alberca, Santo Domingo, Lope Gisbert and Príncipe Alfonso.
Eulalia Ibarra stated that "although the forecast is that initially the only two garages located in the section where the works will start can be used without problems, the City Council has provisionally provisioned a parking lot on the site of the former auction. , Is going to realize a campaign of discounts in subterranean carparks for the clients of the merchants that want to adhere ".
The start of the works will mean that in the aforementioned section, only the exit lane from the Ramón Arcas IES will be left in operation towards Santa Clara Avenue, and Santa Clara will not be able to enter the said educational center.
For this it is recommended to use as alternative accesses the streets Fajardo el Bravo, Santo Domingo and Eugenio Úbeda.
In order for these works to be carried out, surface parking, loading and unloading in the Juan Carlos I works area will be prohibited and the containers will be moved to the intersection of Santa Clara Avenue, at the intersection of Eugenio Úbeda and in the street of Miguel Ángel Blanco.
The loading and unloading for establishments can be carried out in the areas marked Miguel Ángel Blanco, Molins de Rei, Third Age and Santa Clara, which add up to 25 vehicles.
For all of this, the partial cut of the Avenue will be marked from the roundabout of the Apolonia neighborhood, the Puente and the San Diego roundabout, the Old Bridge, the San Fernando and La Viña roundabouts, the Alameda Cervantes, Santa Clara corner with Fajardo El Bravo and Jerónimo Santa Fe.
Finally, it should be noted that a meeting has been held with the director of the IES Ramón Arcas and with the company that provides the service of school buses in order to solve the entry and exit of students from them.
However, this Monday was chosen as the start date of the work because it is festive in schools, which will allow a time of progressive adaptation of traffic to the new situation.
As will be remembered the work of Avenida Juan Carlos I will be developed in different phases in order to make them compatible to the maximum with their social and commercial activity, as well as with the celebration of Holy Week.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca