El Town hall de El Poble Nou de Benitatxell has recently signed a lease to set up a plot of land on Carrer de les Escoles as a public car park. With this 1.061 m2 piece of land, located in a strategic place, both due to its proximity to the school and to one of the main avenues of the municipality, it will be possible to considerably boost the supply of parking spaces, since it is estimated that it will be able to house about 30 cars.
The entrance will be made from Carrer de les Escoles, but a pedestrian access will also be enabled through Avinguda d'Alacant, thus connecting both areas.
On the one hand, it responds to the need to improve road safety at peak times of entry and exit from CEIP Santa María Magdalena, since parents, mostly residents in urbanizations and outskirts of the urban nucleus, use private transport to take students to school. In addition, it will also respond to the lack of parking that arises when festive or cultural events are held and cars have to be evacuated from the main streets of the urban area.
Likewise, in the medium term, this new car park will be part of one of the great actions of the legislature: the reorganization of Avenida de Alacant, Carrer de les Escoles, the rise of the Oratorio and the corner of Abiar to
adapt a safe school itinerary, with a single direction of movement for vehicles and wide sidewalks for pedestrians.
And, as the mayor, Miguel Ángel García, has highlighted, “the aspiration of this government team is to achieve a green, safe and pedestrian-friendly town, betting on pedestrianization or semi-pedestrianization of urban roads to recover the street to people and children ”. All this, he added, "without losing sight of the importance of having large and well-located parking bags."
