Parked vehicles, advertising trestles and lack of use by pedestrians are the problems that are causing modification of the project
On weekends, some drivers park their vehicles in the pedestrian walkway on Colón Street. Photo: Miguel Cerna.
Sofía Medeles (Ajijic).– Acting Ajijic Delegado Maximiliano Macías Arceo said the pedestrian zone currently set up on weekends along Calle Colón will be re-examined because it is ignored and frequently illegally used for parking.
During weekends it is common to see how the walkway, which extends along Colón from the intersection with Hidalgo to the intersection with Del Paseo along the lake, is not accomplishing its purpose as it is not respected by tourists or local businesses.
Macía said that one of the main problems is the lack of traffic officers to supervise the area. The officers were helping Chapala’s tourism and speeding up the traffic on the Chapala-Jocotepec highway, at the height of Ajijic.
«At the beginning it worked very well but now it is out of control. People shamelessly move the cones and park, and since the officers are usually in the dock area they don’t notice these actions. We are going to talk to the municipal president to take the appropriate actions,» said Macías.
The interviewee commented that previously a project was being managed to place more solid but removable delimitations in the walkway. These will be delivered to the president Alejandro de Jesús Aguirre Curiel to define if the pedestrian walkway will be reconsidered or removed.
Since the installation of the pedestrian walkway on Colón Street in November 2021, there has been a weekly increase in encroachments by both motorists and businesses. In addition, Maximiliano Macias said that cones have been stolen, because of the 60 cones with which they started, to date there are approximately 45 left.
Semanario Laguna conducted interviews among the tourists who roamed the area, who said they did not know the purpose of the cones, due to the lack of signage of the walkway. Therefore, instead of using the walkway, they transit through the street to tour the downtown area of the Magic Town.
Translated by Sydney Metrick
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