The mayor of Logroño, Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza, and the delegate of the Government, Beatriz Arraiz, visited Fundición Street this morning, after the completion of the redevelopment works, which has renewed the supply, the channeling of electricity and telecommunications, and has a new wooded area and a children’s area. The works have had a budget of 729 528.63 euros, of which 607 680.57 are subsidized by the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan - Financed by the European Union - NextGenerationEU. They have been executed by the company ANTIS S.A.
“This street was initially intervened with tactical urbanism to give it pedestrian priority and now we have consolidated it with support from European funds,” said Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza. “The works have consisted in the improvement of sanitation, as well as new electricity and telecommunications pipelines, which are joined to new paving, the renovation of luminaires and urban furniture. We have also included a children’s area, sustainable urban drainage areas such as those implemented in Murrieta Street, for example, and more wooded areas,” explained the mayor of Logroño.
The main characteristic of this urbanization is the consolidation through civil work of the transformation that was carried out by emergency to gain pedestrian space turning this street into a typology of pedestrian priority.
“The complete remodeling through civil works has allowed to create a unique platform with granite pavement, and create different spaces to meet all the needs of use of this street,” said Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza.
For her part, Beatriz Arraiz has pointed out that the spirit of the Recovery Plan is
To finance with European funds actions that promote active mobility. “The works of Calle Fundición represent a further advance towards the objective of calming traffic in the city and achieving the coexistence of different modes of mobility.”
Foundry Street is one of the pacified areas or “superblocks” defined in the
PMUS 2013 as an urban and mobility strategy to give priority to the pedestrian through unique platforms that reduce the intensity and speed of traffic.
This street, in addition to being in the center of that superblock, has a greater width than the adjoining ones, which offers greater possibilities to transform it from a “corridor” street, that is, a straight street of passage designed mainly for traffic, into a “salon” street, which in addition to being able to pass with the vehicle, can be, coexist, buy, etc., that is, a street designed for people.
The street now obeys a balance of all uses and a balanced distribution of the
Space for loading and unloading areas, seasonal areas, areas for terraces of establishments and, above all, arbolado.