National District Mayor David Collado walked the stretch between Gracita Alvarez and Luis Lembert streets on Av. John Kennedy taken over many years ago by the Honda concessionaire in the Dominican Republic, Agencia Bella when the later expanded its location and installed the Bellapart Art Museum. Collado was accompanied by city government executives including director of Planning, architect Amin Abel.
Collado told the media that the city government is giving the company 30 days to reach a friendly definite solution. Collado visited the site to supervise the pedestrian crossing placed to protect pedestrians until the perimeter wall is taken down to restore the sidewalk space.
The irregular construction had been protested for years under former Mayor Roberto Salcedo with no results. Mayor Collado began his term in August 2016. The mayor said that the city government is working so that pedestrians no longer need to risk their lives by walking in the highly transited John F. Kennedy roadway due to the lack of adequate sidewalk space.
Collado said: “The law empowers us to intervene in spaces when the lives of passers-by are in danger, as in this case. And it is better to intervene now and not when there is a student or a mother run over by one of the many vehicles that pass through this avenue.”
Collado said the city government is also working on recovering other public spaces to allow pedestrians to move freely. He mentioned actions taken on sections of Av. Jiménez Moya and Av. Winston Churchill.
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24 January 2018
