No 1025 Monday 27th May - Sunday 2nd June 2024
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espite multiple requests, the urbanisation of Montezenia has still not been adopted by the Council and, fed up with the lack of support and maintenance, the residents have now decided to close the Av de la Luz, the through road between Torre Zenia and La Zenia, to all traffic other than urbanisation residents. Montezenia will now join Las Colinas, becoming the second Orihuela Costa urbanisation with restricted access controlled by a private security company. The streets were never formally adopted by the Orihuela Council, an issue that has long rankled with the residents of this residential area in the interior of the Oriolano coast. They have been expressing a recurring lack of maintenance on the roads, with cracks and large potholes in the road surface that are not repaired except at the expense of the residents themselves. The streets, in general, do not even have pavements, which represents an added risk. In fact, they say, traffic accidents occur on a regular basis. After several attempts to get the Council to assume responsibility and take effective possession of the streets, finally the inhabitants, through their property manager, have decided to take responsibility and begin to assume the maintenance costs of the roads themselves. Thus, the paradox arises that, although these people pay their taxes to the municipality, they will only receive the waste/ garbage service, as they will provide the rest of the urbanisation upkeep at their own cost.
D MONTEZENIA RESIDENTS C LO S E AV D A D E L A L U Z T O THROUGH TRAFFIC
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