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Many smirk when you tell them that you are against the pedestrianisation of our street. that you are against the pedestrianisation of our street. Serán estudiosos del tema en otras ciudades, en otras calles.
Few people feel and know San Orencio street as well as we do, having been there for almost 30 years and more than 20 years just a few metres away, in the old location of our business in Padre Huesca street.
Hemos resistido el derrumbe imprevisto de la casa de enfrente, la construcción del hotel contiguo y varias acciones de levantamiento de todo el pavimento para colocar cableados y gas o para eliminar las antiguas aceras.
Como sufrimos las peligrosas noches de la zona los fines de semana.
And I don’t like the pedestrianisation of the street because I don’t see any sense in either the substance or the form. It makes no sense to pedestrianise first and build a car park later. Aquí el orden de los factores sí importa.
Pienso que peatonalizar calles es absurdo, hay que peatonalizar en todo caso zonas. And at the entrance to these areas there should be an easy parking area. The much-vaunted” open shoppingcentre ” should emulate the concept of hypermarkets, shops of all kinds grouped together with leisure facilities , but with parking at the parking at the door and a trolley to get to the boot itself. We are a comfortable society and we need to make shopping enjoyable, easy and convenient.
What they are trying to do with our street is just another step in the wrong direction, a stone in the shoe that will be the final straw for some of them. You only have to walk around the city centre to see the number of of the city to see a large number of premises for sale, for sale, transfer or rent, victims of this devastating crisis.
Pedestrianisation is not about putting up a red traffic light and a bollard, it is necessary to carry out global actions to and it is necessary to look after everyone, first and foremost for those who live and work in the area. Businesses are the lifeblood of the streets, we are the ones who give life, light and movement. Those of us who illuminate with our signs and shop windows the poor lighting of many streets. You only have to walk around the city centre on a Sunday in November at eight o’clock at night to see the reality of this city. at eight o’ clock in the evening to see the reality of this city. It is not a touristic city because, let’s not fool ourselves, it has few attractions to offer tourists, it has few attractions to offer tourists. It is not a city of monuments, museums, or anything like that.
Let’s not idealise things, the oscense is a person who doesn’t like to walk, much less carry heavy bags for long distances. Nor are they used to paying for parking.
We have customers from villages, who order by phone and come to pay and pick up the order; We have elderly people who bring them by car. We don’t live in the neighbourhood, we live from the whole city that comes to us in search of our quality profile . for the quality profile we have. But if we put obstacles in the way, if it is annoying and cumbersome to shop in our street , they will stop coming.
We are supplied with goods at any time of the day, not only from 8 to 11 a . m. and we are talking about a highly perishable highly perishable goods that have to be delivered and sold.
In short, the duty of a municipal government is to defend the interests of its traditional commercial fabric traditional commercial fabric that provides work for the people of Huesca, pays taxes here and consumes here.
An example of how arbitrary certain decisions seem to be is the recent placement of fixed bollards at the entrance to Padre Huesca street. placement of fixed bollards at the entrance to Padre Huesca street. This fact only benefits one hotel and catering establishment in the street, which has hit the jackpot. For the rest of us , it means that to go around the block you have to travel more than a kilometre and suffer 4 or 5 traffic lights to do what used to take 2 minutes. kilometres and suffer 4 or 5 traffic lights to do what used to take 2 minutes. Before that street was bad with treacherous balls to delimit the pavement from the road, but what they should have done was to prohibit parking. but what they should have done was to prohibit parking, widen the pavement space and leave the passage of vehicles untouched.
We recently put up a survey on our premises and on the façade for people to express their for people to express their opinion on the subject. We were surprised, because the issue of pedestrianisation has a very good press, that the overwhelmingly negative opinion on pedestrianisation is winning.
But I am extremely pessimistic that those in charge know how to listen and know how to handle something as delicate as the how to handle something as delicate as the viability of many small businesses.
The mood of the new municipal leaders willnow become clear.
