The residents of Credito Street have endorsed with 45 signatures that surface parking on this road, regular and irregular, be abolished, and bollards are placed to protect the sidewalks so that they have accessible and safe routes for pedestrians. The request also affects Local Police cars, whose patrol cars park daily on a continuous yellow line in the section of the local police station, even though they have official places that they do not use in front of the Alameda theater and the district.
The problems they suffered since 2018 have been aggravated with the closure to traffic of Calle Reposo del Monasterio de San Clemente a few weeks ago
The brief was presented on March 9 to Mobility and the Casco Antiguo District by Ángela Jiménez Endrina, an expert architect in mobility and a neighbor, and this Tuesday the 45 signatures that endorse it will be attached. The District responds that the brief will be studied, specifically the proposals in relation to the parking of Local Police vehicles and the suppression of the three parking spaces.
The street is used as a parking lot due to the proximity of the sports hall, the Alameda Theater, the police station and the district, despite the fact that several residents of the older homes use wheelchairs. Neighbors claim that the circulation of cars on Calle Crédito is allowed only to residents and users of garages, as has been done in the final section of Calle Jesús del Gran Poder, which has the same characteristics as Crédito, and which is studied direct suppressed traffic on Calle Reposo towards Alameda so that from there they reach Lumbreras street towards Santa Clara, suppressing the give way in Lumbreras (at the height of Crédito) and leaving this road with priority of passage.
The street was redeveloped without complying with accessibility regulations
As the street is on a single platform, without bollards and with very narrow sidewalks, residents report that they are exposed to abuses due to the continuous passage of vehicles that invade the pedestrian area when trying to avoid parked vehicles, a situation that has been aggravated by the closure to traffic of Calle Reposo del Monasterio de San Clemente, which happened a few weeks ago. “The action must be understood globally, including the elimination of all types of car parks, the extension of pedestrian routes and the restriction of vehicular traffic”.
They regret that the closure of Reposo Street has not been consulted with the residents of Credito, since it is causing “serious inconvenience due to the increase in the level of traffic we endure” since most of the traffic suppressed from Rest circulates through Credit. “This situation aggravates the damages that we have been suffering since the end of 2018 with the complete redevelopment of Calle Crédito, which has since remained a single platform but did not comply with the regulations that required urbanized public spaces to be adapted to universal accessibility standards as of December 4, 2017 “, explains the architect Jiménez Endrina.
The redevelopment of 2018, apart from violating the universal accessibility regulations, left the sidewalks and the road without any element that separates them other than a continuous yellow line that does not allow stopping (Standard 8.2-IC Road Marks) but “that almost nobody respect “. “The lack of placement of bollards that delimit the vehicular circulation of the pedestrian route generates serious problems in the pedestrian flow, especially on the eastern edge, the only route available,” they explain.
Irregular parking occurs in the first section of the street closest to the sports hall. “The first section of the west sidewalk is usually occupied by Local Police vehicles and, on many occasions, by private cars belonging to members of the Local Police force, parents waiting for the students to leave the SAFA Nuestra Señora de los Reyes, users of the Fundición sports hall, etc. “, they lament.
Neighbors criticize the incivism of the Local Police. “Although the Local Police have reserved several places for official vehicles in front of the Alameda theater, it is easier for them to park in Crédito because they perform fewer maneuvers, regardless of not respecting the signs installed forbidding to park in the ‘Security Zone’ and the aforementioned continuous yellow line forbidding to park, accumulating at times up to 3 and 4 vehicles “.
That the circulation of cars on Calle Crédito is allowed only to residents and parking users
Regular parking is located in the last section of Calle Crédito where it meets Calle Lumbreras, where are delimited three parking spaces “that barely leave sidewalk space”. “When there are cars parked on the western edge, they leave an effective road width of just 2 meters, insufficient for a comfortable passage of the cars, which causes them to literally circulate over the eastern sidewalk, a fact that always occurs in the final section by be the three seats always occupied (in particular, one of them has a vehicle abandoned for more than a year and a half, with registration number 0801-DJJ “.
Homes vibrate with cars at excessive speed
Of the 6 meters wide that Credito Street measures, 3.80 meters are intended for carriageway and only 1.10 meters for sidewalks on both sides, except for the final section of the West sidewalk, which is 0.60 meters. The residents’ request is that, by means of bollards and signage, “the road and sidewalk bands are clearly delimited, so that the widths are reversed, that is, the road is reduced to 2.4-2.5 meters ( so that the cars circulate slower) and the pedestrian routes remain with a width of 1.80 meters, as established by the accessibility regulations (Article 5.2.b) of Order 561/2010, which was not complied with in the reform that it was done in December 2018, “explains Jiménez Endrina.
The vehicles go at excessive speed, 30 centimeters from the facades and when passing through unpolished cobblestones they generate vibration in the houses cataloged from the XIX
Access to the two underground car parks on the street also forces vehicles to invade the sidewalk to open and enter a more orthogonal position. “The sidewalks are not designed or built to withstand the passage of vehicles, which is why they are usually damaged, showing broken tiles and subsidence, which has led to them having to be repaired on several occasions, especially that of the final section “.
Another problem is that the vehicles go at excessive speed, 30 centimeters from the facades and when passing unpolished cobblestones they generate vibration in the houses cataloged of the XIX. “When there are no cars parked in the first section of the western edge, the cars circulate at improper speeds for a street and environment of these characteristics, as marked by a vertical sign of 20 km / h located at the beginning of the street but no one respect “.
“Let’s hope that the situation presented here does not cause any misfortune derived from a serious accident on a pedestrian because we would have the justification of having denounced it at the time through this request,” they warn.
