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Adoración Peñas, councilor of the municipal group of IU-Verdes has denounced the state of space located at the confluence between Torrecilla Street and Guadalentín River, in the Lorca neighborhood of Alfonso X and in the vicinity of La Viña neighborhood.

The mayor has referred to the uninhabited lot that has remained after the recent remodeling of the neighborhood of Alfonso X, remembering that the same space, served as a recreation area for many older people who used to spend some time outdoors with their grandchildren While playing in the playground he had located.

Peñas has expressed the discomfort of the neighbors of the area, as they have replaced a space with a playground, flower beds with large shrubs and a homogeneous pavement, suitable for pedestrian traffic, without risk of falls, for an empty space , Without children's playground, with smaller shrubs in the parterre and with a cracked pavement, with large furrows of separation and that can hinder and endanger the transit of the many elderly people of the neighborhood, people with reduced mobility and chairs wheel.

In addition, from IU-Greens highlight the existence of broken banks, with splinters at the edges, which have not been repaired by the city and require its urgent restoration.

Peñas recalls that this was a space well liked by the elders of the area, as they enjoyed it with the arrival of good weather, giving joy and vitality to that corner of the city.

Since the remodeling of the neighborhood and the transfer of the playground to the main place of Alfonso X, this corner has not only been disheveled, but has worsened its conditions and lost vitality, since many older people do not walk around There for fear of falling on the cracked pavement he now has.

The mayor considers that the playground could have been maintained even if one had been placed down below, as well as warned the error of having modified soil and trees to the detriment of a place of special use, recreation and charm for the neighbors of the area.

In addition, Peñas recalled that the City of Lorca has commissioned the development of a Plan for Sustainable Urban Mobility, in which she is a part and has participated in almost all the workdays held in the same, with the collaboration of Different social and political actors of the municipality.

For that reason, it asks the government team to take into account mistakes like the one committed in this place when it comes to definitively developing the PMUS, since one of its main purposes is to get a Lorca more accessible and passable for all, with special incidence In the elderly, people with disabilities and with reduced mobility.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca