OPINION Pepa Font, spokesperson for Popular Dénia
As we approach the 2023–2027 municipal legislature, it is time to make a calm but firm assessment of the situation of mobility in our city. After more than two years of government PSPV-PSOE, the structural problems of traffic, transport and urban planning continue without resolution. The one who is pitjor: some are chronified and others are agreujat.
During this legislature, the government team has placed a series of radars, a measure that, in response to a comprehensive mobility plan, shows a recapturing and disproportionate approach, in a context where the city continues without real solutions for traffic and fluid circulation. In order to facilitate mobility, it is decided to penalize drivers, without offering effective public transport alternatives or improvements in road infrastructure.
Public parking, on the other hand, continues to be a recurring problem. The municipal government has opted to enable private lots with temporary parking zones, a precarious solution that does not guarantee continuity or urban stability. These lands can be venuts or buildings at any time, leaving the city without sufficient places and generating more pressure on the traffic of the urban center.
Regarding collective transportation, the situation is worrying. The bus service at the hospital is deficient, with low frequency, poorly functional routes and no planning adapted to the real needs of residents and visitors. The bus Marines i the Rotates, especially in high season, presents great lack of operations that directly affect the tourist image of the city and the quality of life of those who reside there.
There are more historical congestion points that continue without intervention by the City Council. One of the most paradigmatic cases is the intersection between Carrer Diana and Carrer Colón, in an industrial ship prevented from being able to enable a double traffic lane, generating daily frauds. Another flagrant case is that of Passeig del Saladar, the fragmented design of which impeded the fluid connection between trams, hindering the transit of vehicles and creating unnecessary bottlenecks.
From the Popular Party we come to claim the execution of fundamental infrastructures with the Ronda Nord, a two-way road that connects the roundabout of the McDonald's in the Fernando restaurant area. This work, long announced but already started, would considerably reduce traffic in the accesses to the city, especially at the entrance and exit of the port and the terminal. Baleària.
neither can avoid abandonment situations that impede circulation on Fridays. This is the case of the Caldera del Gas street, which is closed due to industrial ruins without maintenance, or the Llanxa street, located next to the athletics tracks, which could be a strategic route to channel the traffic coming from Les Marines.
It is not possible to address these deficiencies without assessing the direct responsibility of the person most responsible for the city's urban planning for more than a decade: Maria Josep Ripoll. The situation managed by the Urban Planning Councilor has been marked by inaction, the lack of strategic planning and the absence of tangible results in the major areas of mobility. Nowadays, everything indicates that she will be the candidate of the PSPV to the Mayor's Office in the next municipal elections. It is difficult to understand how it is possible to propose a continuing candidacy when the main problems that need to be resolved continue to persist.
In this context, we cannot go beyond the recent approval of the General Structural Plan, presented with great propaganda paraphernalia by the local government. From the Popular Party we have serious doubts about the legality and technical feasibility. Various reports and allegations point out that the document could contain legal irregularities and do not comply with all the requirements established by the current urban planning legislation. If it is finally annulled by the courts or by higher institutions, as has already occurred in other municipalities, the political responsibility will clearly fall on Ripoll, as the main promoter of the document.
From the Municipal Popular Group we will send a clear message: Dénia needs planning, rigor and political will to solve its various mobility problems. We cannot allow the city to continue running aground due to lack of management. Face this, it's time to rectify the course of the remainder of the legislature. The fact that we are not willing to accept is that, after more than a decade without results, those who have direct responsibility intend to perpetuate themselves without assuming their errors.
Dénia deserves modern, efficient and sustainable mobility. I also deserve a government team that is at the height of the climb, something that, with this team, is absolutely unfeasible.
Just look at the bus station.
With a botched job like that and the entire downtown closed to scooters and bicycles, the PSOE has won in Denia. I have one foot in.
Mobility???
Don't fuck with me.
Public transport in Denia is third-world.
I retired to Dénia and my job in the UK involved town planning, the local government CA fix the situation with supported transport ie assisting bus operators to run better and more frequent services along with support for more taxi services.
Large parking lot areas should be a charge rate to generate the income to support the plans set out above.
They also need to sequence the traffic lights system.
I would love to be able to talk to the council and offer my 40 years of experience.
But when does it dawn on the City Council and the opposition that Dénia, with just registered residents, has almost 50.000 inhabitants, to which must be added the entire floating population of tourists and visitors with their own apartments?
We all have to move and it's not that urban transport in Dénia is poor. It's that it doesn't exist.
A SHAME, SO THAT THEN WE FILL OUR MOUTHS WITH URBAN MOBILITY AND THAT WE DON'T USE CARS
The hospital's "qutobus" is a SHAME.
NO ONE WANTS TO GO JUST FOR FUN.
1 BUS EVERY 2 HOURS UNTIL 8 PM.
A round of applause for inclusive politics.