Ana Rosa Quintana’s program, TardeAR, began Wednesday afternoon addressing one of the most curious topics of the last few hours: the controversial pedestrian roundabout that was inaugurated by the Alicante city hall this week.
It is the first non-tactical roundabout in Spain located in the business area of ??Las Atalayas, in Alicante. This new roundabout aims to facilitate the passage and flow of people in this service area and reduce the circulation of vehicles, which will only have one lane on each side of it.
In addition, the Alicante city council explained in a statement that it will also help with the installation of new terraces for local businesses in the area and the extension of green areas without the need for urban planning operations. This controversial modification has cost a total of 234,000 euros and has generated a lot of commotion among residents of the area, who cannot understand its usefulness.
The issue has caused a lot of controversy on social networks and in numerous media outlets, which is why the Telecinco space began Wednesday’s program by debating this controversial decision. ”Does this look like a roundabout to you? The objective is to facilitate the passage of pedestrians, who do not know where they are going to pass. “It has cost a fortune and no one understands it,” the presenter began by saying.
”The workers tell us that it makes their daily lives very difficult because how can you see this non-roundabout, that’s how they have named it, they have only left two lanes for cars when before it was just a normal intersection,” declared the reporter. of the program.
”We tried to humanize it, always respecting its functionality with safety at intersections. “We wanted pedestrians to have greater peace of mind when moving, since they have complete security when moving from one block to another without any type of obstacle,” Vicente Seguí, manager of the Telecinco space, stated before the cameras. industrial Estate.
But these words were far from the opinions of the neighbors, who could not understand the functionality of the non-roundabout. ”They have spent money foolishly. I don’t see the use of this”, ”I see it as narrow for all the trucks that pass through here, they’re going to have a difficult time passing through”, ”We’ll have to take advantage of it since they’ve made the expense”, ‘ ‘It is not going to be used as intended’, ‘They could have used the money to solve other things in the industrial estate’, were some of the opinions of the neighbors.