Alicante.The Government Team of the City of Alicante, the bipartite composed of the Popular Party (PP) and Citizens (CS), launches a new attempt to build the cyclopeatonal platform provided between Elche Avenue and the access road to Urbanova after theReformulation of the original approach, after Pavasal renounced its execution in the conditions in which the award in the increase experienced by the price of construction materials, as reported by Alicante Plaza.Thus, an agreed resolution of the contract was negotiated with the intention of reformulating it and tender.
Now, the new proposal prepared by the Department of Urban Planning, which has been approved on Tuesday at the Governing Board, includes that cost increase and increases its budget until 4.437.467.23 euros, practically two million more than the price with which its award to Pavasal was closed.Of course, the proposal of municipal budgets for 2022 approved on Monday at an extraordinary Government Board only contemplates for now an initial endowment of 350.000 euros to promote its execution.The rest of the cost of the works will be completed by means.Or what is the same, that the tender of the works and the beginning of its execution will not occur as very soon until after the summer.
Municipal sources have detailed that the new project modifies the previous."This property, collected in the catalog of protected buildings, could become part of the municipal heritage if they fruit the conversations that are being carried out between both institutions," according to the same sources.At the moment, in the project a modification of the path of the catwalk is expected at its height with the purpose of correcting the existing unevenness and facilitating access to the property after its rehabilitation.
For the rest, the Cycopeatonal platform project maintains its original objective: to improve accessibility for cyclists and pedestrians at the southern entrance to the city, by re -urging the section of Elche Avenue, between the crossing with Jean Claude Combaldieu Avenue, access to the beaches of southern Urbanova and access to the industrial zone of bitter water, increasing road safety.
To do this, the modification of the current Avenida de Elchecyclist and pedestrian sidewalk.Likewise, a catwalk will be implemented that transversely crosses the railroad track, whose purpose is to join Elche Avenue with the coastal strip (Cala de los Borrachos, Playa de Agua Amarga, etc..) for the use of cyclists and pedestrians ".
At the same time, according to the same sources, the creation of a cyclopeatonal platform is proposed, in the coastal strip, on the layout of the old national highway, until connecting with the cycling and pedestrian platform, towards Urbanova, which will have a total total lengthabout 2.400 meters.Thus, it will link the recent urbanization of Elche Avenue between the San Gabriel neighborhood and the headquarters of the EUIPO, with the access road to Urbanova, in a route with a 4 -meter width in the section that runs through the coastal strip, where pedestrians and cyclists must share circulation.The project has a wide platform with maximum slopes of 4 percent.Two roundabouts are included in the accesses to the European Office and the City of Light, a step adapted on the road and an iconic catwalk on the railroad tracks.
The scope of action is divided into three zones, as in the original project.The first and closer to Urbanova and the City of Luz, contemplates a corner of access to the complex now of the digital district that slows and improves the distribution of traffic, continues with a pedestrian crossing on the road to continue with a flying catwalk forsave the railroad tracks.The catwalk has been designed so that it becomes a reference icon in access from the airport to the city and a sustainability model with the adaptation of the land, the planting of shrub species and Mediterranean trees.