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Spanish cities prepare for de-escalation

Several municipalities are already beginning to adopt measures to reorder the process de-escalated It will take the country towards the “new normal”, which foresees four phases at different speeds and whose horizon is the end of June, although it could be extended in certain territories.

Each of the four phases of the plan will have a minimum duration of two weeks and it will be applied in a gradual, asymmetric and coordinated manner between administrations, taking the province or the island as a territorial reference, although the Government is open to studying the proposals of some autonomous communities regarding other territorial units.

These are the measures adopted by some consistories:

– Madrid: The Madrid City Council has published a guide to avoid risks on farms and developments, in which he remembers that the exits must be made outside the community; play elements of playgrounds and common leisure areas cannot be used; groups should not be formed with other neighbors, the elevators will be used individually and cleaning must be carried out on the premises.

The municipal government of José Luis Martínez-Almeida also studies expand the capital’s terraces so that they can use all the capacity that they have recognized and compensate for the 30% occupancy limitation established in phase 1 of the de-escalation.

– Getafe (Madrid): The City Council of this municipality will distribute this weekend another lot of 60,000 masks among their neighbors: 50,000 will be boxed and another 10,000 will be on the street. This item joins the 80,000 already distributed last weekend, in the miscarriage of those under 14 years of age.

– Barcelona: The City Council of Barcelona provides reinvigorate the city through a pact between municipal political forces, in order to face the fall in income of around 300 million that the Catalan capital will suffer.

– Vitoria: The City Council of the Basque capital works in the development of a plan with concrete measures to expand the space of the sidewalks and increase cycling routes in the de-escalation period and guarantee compliance with “social distance” and “active travel”.

– Zaragoza: “Pedestrian weekends” is the initiative which will be launched this weekend by the Zaragoza City Council, in which it will be the largest pedestrianization in the city made to date, to facilitate residents who can make the authorized walks and exits and with greater security after the partial removal of the confinement.

– Gijón: The City Council of this Asturian city is going to cut off traffic at least until the end of summer the lane of the San Lorenzo Wall closer to the beach, it will create bicycle lanes on 29 city routes and will accelerate the pedestrianization plan to facilitate mobility in the de-escalation.

– Santander: The Santander urban transport service (TUS) has installed Disinfectant gel dispensers on all vehicles in the fleet as a measure to guarantee the safety and health of drivers and users.

– Granada: The Nasrid capital will maintain parks that have already been closed with the declaration of the state of alarm and neither does it foresee pedestrianizing new streets these days.

– Córdoba: The Cordovan City Council will allocate seven million euros for the implementation of a social and health shock plan facing the consequences of the Covid-19 crisis.

– Vélez-Málaga (Málaga): The City Council of this Malaga town has acquired a machine to mark some squares on the sand of your beach so that bathers can keep social distance and avoid new infections.

– Valencia: The Valencian City Council will streamline the licensing of new requests for terraces in bars and restaurants and studies extending the suspension of fees for occupation of the public domain. In addition, the Plaza del Ayuntamiento will be closed to traffic definitively this Monday to start the actions aimed at turning it into a pedestrian area.

– Alicante: The Alicante Local Police has established a special operation before the start of the de-escalation phase, and will deploy more than 500 agents throughout the city so that the schedules for playing sports or walking with minors are respected, people meetings are avoided and distances are maintained.

– Benidorm (Alicante): Benidorm City Council rules out the reopening of the markets, one municipal and the other private, for the sale of food and personal hygiene products.

– Valladolid: More than 400 seniors and 88 unemployed will be able to resume from Monday the organic gardens and urban of the city of Valladolid, within the regulation of the Government that allows, within the state of alarm for the coronavirus, to return to that activity.

– Toledo: The Toledo City Council plans reactivate, on May 4, the public works plan, with the arrangement of the Library of the Santa María de Benquerencia neighborhood; and maintains contacts with local police officers to design the de-escalation process with measures that guarantee the safety of neighbors.

– Cuenca: The Cuenca City Council will try, whenever possible, to increase the surface of the terraces, and will speed up the licenses for the concession of new terraces or expansion of existing ones, as well as those of work or activity for the opening of new establishments or the “reconversion” of others.

– Santa Cruz of Tenerife: Tenerife capital will seal all the playgrounds of the municipality As a warning to parents that during the state of alarm and the first phases of de-escalation, the use of these facilities is not allowed.

– The iron: The Cabildo de El Hierro, one of the islands that will directly start phase 1 of the de-escalation, will allocate 7.4 million euros for aid to economic recovery insular and whose objective is to cover basic needs in the face of the serious effects of the health crisis.

– Formentera: Another of the islands that will start de-climbing in phase 1 will have a team dedicated to reporting on hygiene and distance measures to be met by citizens who take to the streets and businesses that open their doors from Monday.


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