The San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council will not have room for maneuver to avoid launching new pedestrian zones in San Fernando and Playa del Inglés. There will be pedestrian zones for cars that pollute. This is what the official document, which began to circulate this November, from the municipal corporation to which Maspalomas24H has had access, literally says. One thing is also known: vulnerable areas will not be pedestrianized, "such as school and hospital environments or nursing homes."
The truth is that workers who travel with their own cars, apartment complexes of people from Las Palmas with properties in the south and hotels will be fully affected. Rental car companies assume that they will have no choice but to change their fleet or lose business to Maspalomas taxi services.
In principle, the theory said that they would send those areas to Meloneras but the technicians have forced the legal machinery and have released the plan that comes from the time of the PSOE. Since last September the plan has been delayed but in 2024 there will be first progress to implement low emission zones. This means that only low-emission cars will be able to access, which have an average price of up to 30.000 euros with interest.
The document that serves as the axis states that "it must be taken into account that the needs" of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council "is to implement the Low Emissions Zone in phases in which the urban space that is included in the plan will be gradually expanded. same, these extensions not coinciding with the neighborhoods that make up the complete territorial scope of the Low Emissions Zone (which will be fully monitored through technological systems).
And the official text adds that: "the scope of implementation of the Low Emissions Zone will be in one, or both, areas of San Fernando and Playa del Inglés." The door is left open to the possibility that "if there is, due to imperative necessity" "a change in the scope of implementation" can be generated.
The delimitation of the ZBEs in the south of Gran Canaria "will be carried out taking into account the origin and destination of the trips whose reduction or modal change has been considered necessary to achieve the objectives of that zone." The municipal standard provides that the delimitation "must discourage" the "movement of vehicles" and "its impact on air quality or acoustic quality from the restricted area to adjacent areas." The design of the new pedestrian zones will consider areas "of special protection."
