All citizens are reminded that, pursuant to the unanimous request by all the commercial, tourist and hotel business groups in the municipality, based on the need to optimize the traffic in the historic old town to promote economic activity and the creation of jobs, the City has agreed that, starting next Tuesday, 7 January, will be two-way traffic the central stretch of Main Street (the corner between space and Bath Hardware Perfume Druni corner).
That, with the decline of parking spaces that this decision involves in this route, have also adopted the following measures in order not only to soften, but even more so to increase that notorious parking available in the town center.
The measures are:
1) All existing parking bays in said central section become free vehicle parking, being suppressed in these spaces the loading and unloading areas and bus stop.
2nd) The two areas for loading and unloading existing move to date against Pinion House and top right of the Calle Andrés Pedroza (Side Hardware Bath).
3rd) The bus stops on Main Street will be made against the floors Repesa, Pinion House, the Library and the Classroom Sáez Nova Academy.
4 °) It will enable new parking areas and three plots in three perpendicular streets to Main Street, specifically at Porras Street (opposite the railway) in Arguelles Street (behind Café Mayor) and Alcocer Street (up to the Red Cross), with a global capacity of about 70 vehicles, which in practice will mean that more than 50 new parking spaces are generated.
5th) also proceed to relocate containers waste sites in the indicated section of Main Street in various adjacent roads to the latter, thus freeing their land area to generate new parking.
6th) Notwithstanding the foregoing, shall remain operational and parking areas at the sites solar Canalejas, Numancia, Méndez Núñez and Bailen Street.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión