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Benidorm approves the renovation project for the second phase of the Levante lighting catenary with an investment of 908,581 euros

 

The project covers the section between Avenida Europa and Calle Médico Miguel Martorell and is included in the 'Visión 360' Tourism Sustainability Plan

The mayor says that this is a project “that should be carried out by the State” but that “the City Council will take on the task because it is what our city deserves”

The Benidorm City Council, through the Department of Public Space, will approve next Monday the project for 'Renovation of the public lighting and the existing catenary of the Paseo de Levante. Phase II', a work that is valued at 908,581.28 euros, plus VAT, and that the Council will execute through the Plan for Sustainable Tourism in Destination 'Benidorm Vision 360', financed with European funds Next Generation. This was announced this Thursday by the mayor of the city, Toni Pérez, after the proposal was included in the agenda of the Urban Planning Information Commission next Monday as a previous step to its approval by the Local Government Board.
 

Pérez has detailed that this second phase of the catenary renovation covers the section between Avenida de Europa –where the first phase, completed in the first half of last year, reached– and Calle Médico Miguel Martorell, so that “we are once again fulfilling the commitments of this government team with our city and our citizens, in the face of the omission of responsibilities by the State, which is the one who, by competences, should execute the work”.
 

The first mayor has recalled that the public lighting installations and the existing catenary of Paseo de Levante “were carried out in the 1990s, within the scope of the construction works of the Paseo Marítimo de la Playa de Levante, through a tender instrumented at the time by the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and the Environment”. 

Three decades later, “and given the need to renew the entire infrastructure both due to the passage of time and to adapt it to more modern and energy-efficient technologies”, Toni Pérez recalled, the Provincial Coastal Service authorized in November 2021, the execution of the works of the first phase project, in the section from Plaza del Torrejó to Avenida de Europa, a project in which the City Council invested 1,972,119.41 euros, financed with municipal resources and with which a reduction in energy power of more than 33.65% has been obtained.

Given “the will and commitment to continue advancing in the modernization of this infrastructure, an icon of our city”, the City Council commissioned the drafting of the project for this second phase to the company Guía Consultores, SLP, which was delivered on September 30 and is now being submitted for approval by the Local Government Board. Pérez has stated that the project “includes the complete renovation of the public lighting installation and the emblematic overhead power line on the Paseo de Levante in the affected section, also improving the support elements and the internal lighting and communication systems.”

The mayor also explained that, in parallel with the approval of this project, the City Council has already requested the relevant authorisation for its execution from the Provincial Coastal Service. “As soon as we have this authorisation, which we hope will be as soon as possible, we will proceed to draft the specifications for the tendering of the work”, he said. 

Finally, Toni Pérez recalled that, “as has already occurred with many other infrastructures, such as the first phase itself, the accesses to the tertiary sector or the so-called second phase of Poniente, this work would be financed and executed by the State, but in the face of a new omission of its responsibility, the Benidorm City Council is going to assume it and carry it out because we understand that it is what Benidorm deserves”. The mayor ended by regretting that “while the central government is doing and redoing works in many other municipalities, with Benidorm they continually look the other way” and requested that “if they are not going to invest a single euro cent in this renovation, at least they process the necessary authorisations quickly”.