On Monday, August 29, is scheduled to start pruning ficus in the Avenida de America for subsequent transfer to the Slum Lady of Charity, popularly known as the Six Hundred, as announced by the concessionaire of the underground parking be built in the basement of the avenue.
This work will involve initially the prohibition of parking in the driveway and traffic specific cuts at certain times as specified the Traffic Bureau of the local police.
The removal of the ficus this avenue had been sued by the residents of the area, which remove light to homes, generate soil and prevent seeing the iconic modernist facade of the railway station.
The construction of underground parking has become unviable in the maintenance of trees and has decided to move most of the copies to the extension of the greenway Quarter Peral, near the six hundred.
So far, the work will consist in pruning and thinning of the specimens and to the transfer need not be the avenue closed to traffic permanently American, the same sources have indicated the Traffic Office.
As you may recall the City of Cartagena won last April, the construction and operation of the underground parking to González Soto, for a fee of 215,730 euros.
The parking spaces have about 350 will be built on one floor, covering, from the Plaza de Mexico at Bastarreche of, and involve the rearrangement of the surface with the actual removal of trees and removal of the four-lane center Avenue.
Sidewalks side will have 14 meters wide, and the excavation of the parking will come to less than 8 meters from the facades of buildings.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena