Representatives stressed the deficiences in the management in the Council Departments of Transportation, Commerce, Education and Planning.
Miguel Ros, and Carmen Diaz, the representatives of the group denounced the lack of accessible buses not only for those with lack of mobility, but for the older person and for baby pushchairs, such as the service to Torremendo or the pedanías (villages), where users have to overcome three steps to enter.
Furthermore, the association affirms that new urban areas are being developed "without dropped kerb pavement accesses" which is then a cost to city coffers to amend them, and called for the adoption of a bye-law to this effect by exploiting the decline in construction activity.
In the town centre of the pedanía de Los Huertos they request the removal of barriers that cause difficulty for the residents to move about the only access pavement in the town, and actions in the streets Luis Barcala, Limon, Valencia and Castellon. In the latter road there has been the "absurd" case of a workshop that installed dropped kerbs only to have them removed by later work.
Nor has it (the council) controlled the shops that do not comply with the law on accessibility. A claim answered by an advisor to the Council on the grounds that "if you wanted to leave the street to all parents who have a trade in Orihuela", said Carmen Diaz, who recalled that the Mayor Lorente has not met with them as she promised and has abolished the council department for Acessibility.
Diaz criticized the new offices of the Delegation of Education at the Plaza Teniente Linares as not being accessible and being in need of a ramp and lift.
Translation of an article in
on the 08/05/2009
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