In the plenary session held yesterday in the Javea Town Hall It was unanimously agreed to once again ask the Provincial Council to install a series of protection elements on the CV-742, the so-called Portitxol highway. The insistence is due to the growing and dangerous irregular parking in the area during the summer season due to the large influx of visitors that the cove receives.
Last October, the council requested this measure from the provincial entity, owner of this road, to avoid the situation experienced in past summers as a result of the regulation of access to the Cala Portitxol and the installation of a barrier that prevents access to cars when the parking lot of the cove is complete.
When the barrier closes, many drivers park irregularly on this provincial road, causing traffic problems, making it difficult for emergency vehicles to access and endangering pedestrians, some of them minors, who are forced to to walk in the same lane as cars.
The municipal request was accompanied by police reports, which recommend installing a fence or wooden pylons in a section of approximately 1,4 kilometers (from the intersection with Lentisco Street to the intersection with Media Lluna Street), both for the ease of disassembly in case of need as for aesthetic criteria and public image in an area of landscape value and also cost savings, given the considerable distance to signal.
This request was also transferred in two meetings with both the Highways Deputy and the President of the Provincial Council, who offered their cooperation to the municipality in this measure to guarantee safety and improve the prevention of fires or environmental deterioration.
However, after months of waiting for a response, last week the Provincial Council denied this request and announced that they will only place vertical signage recalling the ban. Something that police reports rule out as a single measure and describe as "insufficient" to avoid irregular parking and the problems that arise from this situation, such as the evacuation or maneuvering of emergency vehicles.
Given the proximity of the start of the summer season, the mayor chose to take this issue to full to give more strength to the claim. All the parties supported the motion that describes the Provincial Council's solution as insufficient and calls again for the installation of pylons.
To help the city council since it is hard for them to think, near the Portichol a nice 2000m2 plot is for sale for €90.000 if they want to buy it and make a parking lot so the cars they eliminate can put them there and thus the chaos is fixed. Thanks.
If the local highways and roads don't even fix them and they're a mess, now they're asking the council to fix what doesn't belong to them, first the city council fixes what's ours and then what belongs to others.
There are so many streets and streetlights to fix that they don't even care, life is upside down.
They can also put some zebra crossing that there is not one and thousands of people live in this area
Come everyone!!!, but without public transport?
Elemental, Chulvi and his gang, the best.
Anyway….
On the one hand promote mass tourism and on the other seek to protect themselves from it.