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From the City Hall, a civic exercise is requested to contribute among all to the maintenance of cleanliness on these festive dates, since citizen collaboration and awareness are key to the proper development of the Fair
The Councilor of Municipal Companies of the City of Lorca, Juan Francisco Martínez, informed this morning about the device that the municipal company Limusa is going to launch during the Fair 2017, and that includes more than fifty staff to the special cleaning operation road network.
Juan Francisco Martínez has indicated that "the daily average will be 40 workers of the road cleaning service and collection of garbage, a team of 18 people to clear the squares of the urban area and leisure area of ​​the Garden of the Wheel, plus 8 interior workers for the maintenance of toilets, dressing rooms of the artists and reinforcement of cleaning in the municipal facilities that offer their logistics to the development of the celebrations ".
The Councilor of Municipal Companies, in this regard, explained that "the maintenance of the urban center will consist of sweeping and scouring before and after the playful celebrations that will be held from 15 to 24 September.
Specifically, they will be in charge of the main streets and plazas decked out for the Day Fair, the concert halls in the Plaza de España, Alameda Rafael Méndez esplanade and Huerto de la Rueda, as well as the Alameda de la Constitución where Feramur, the area of ​​the fairground that houses attractions and beach bars, as well as the lined malls with albero for horse shows ".
Martínez added that "on the other hand, it also covers the interior section of the cleaning of toilets and dressing rooms in the Huerto Rueda, the dressing rooms for artists in the esplanade of concerts and the Plaza de España, as well as mobile infrastructures of emergency services.
All this, adds to the cleanliness of schools and municipal facilities, which sometimes require a staff reinforcement for hosting exhibitions and serve as support for cultural and sports activities, such as the Guadalentín Sports Games.
The Edil de Empresas Municipales has stated that "at a mechanical level, the extraordinary equipment will be composed, mainly, of two sweepers of aspiration that have to clean streets and squares of the urban center where Fair is celebrated, as well as a scrubber and two cisterns of flushing.
A third large sweeper will be responsible for vacuuming the accumulated debris after each day the night entertainment area and the venues where the musical performances are held.
In addition, containers of 120 liters, distinguished with the emblem of the fair, will be distributed strategically by the city trying to minimize that the waste goes to the ground.
In addition, Limusa coordinates with the operation of Hostelor during the central hours of the day to ensure optimal maintenance of the streets of Lorca.
Juan Francisco Martínez stressed that "the planning of road cleaning services and waste collection is adapted to the new conditions of the Day Fair. Therefore, the days without concerts the cleaning service will be continued to ensure the maintenance of the public highway during the afternoon and, in the evening shift, will be a sweeper and two more vans that will handle manual cleaning.
In addition, also at night, a team of two cisterns will pail the most busy areas of the downtown area and a scrubber will be responsible for cleaning again the entire occupied area, both in the center area (Corredera, Lope Gisbert, roundabouts, and squares with carp: Spain, Nueva, Calderón and San Vicente) and La Viña, San José or Avenida Europa, among other places that will also have activities.
The three days of concert in Plaza de España, the scouring will be prior to the beginning of the musical activity ".
The Councilor for Municipal Enterprises has stated that "the Huerto de la Rueda, which houses chiringuitos, fairgrounds and attractions will have a daily cleaning during the night.
At its closure, two irrigation cisterns, a sweeper and a scrubber are in charge of conditioning the recreational spaces in this enclosure.
It should be noted that for the collection of garbage are installed 50 containers of 90 liters as litter and another half hundred of 1,000 liters for garbage.
In addition, the installation has glass bells around the premises that generate this type of waste.
On the other hand, an external support group composed of 18 workers will clean the belt of the fairground, which runs along a section of the river bed, Rambla de Tiata and Virgen de las Huertas, a common meeting place for young people, among others chores".
Martinez, lastly, has asked "Lorca and those who visit us to enjoy our Fair that perform an exercise of civism to contribute to the maintenance of cleanliness on these festive dates, as citizen collaboration and awareness are key for the correct development of the Fair ".
Limusa bets on sustainable movement during the Lorca Fair
For the second consecutive year, Limusa promotes during the Fair and Festivals the sustainable displacement by the city when giving space of the public car parks that manages for the parking of bicycles.
Users will find a place from 15 to 24 September to leave their bikes in the parking lot of San Vicente, in the historic center, as well as in Huerto de la Rueda, in front of the fairground, while enjoying music, activities and attractions of these parties
This initiative, as was done last year, is part of the technical office of Urban Mobility of the City of Lorca on the occasion of the European Week of Mobility and the Day Without Car, which again coincides with the Lorca Fair and was introduced only a few days ago.
The proposal is accompanied by an extensive promotional campaign to promote mobility in sustainable transport, public transport, walking or cycling.
In the zone destined to store the bicycles both in the parking of the San Vicente square and in the Huerto de la Rueda the users of this means of transport non polluting will have the security to park in a controlled zone and, even, to guard of weather in the case of underground parking.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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