Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2022 8:29am
This a google translation from Menorca Diario
The residents of the historic center of Maó celebrate the measure of restricting vehicle access to the old town and the surveillance through cameras at key points, Plaça Esplanada and Sant Jordi and Sa Lluna streets. With a new board of directors, its president, Daniel Pons, assures that the residents have gained "a lot of peace of mind with the reduction in the entry of thousands of cars" and also note the greater ease of parking near their homes.
The support for limited access to authorized vehicles and the camera system launched by the City Council is clear from the entity, "the pacification of traffic in the center was an old claim," says Pons, a resident for around 25 years of one of the busiest streets in the center, the Cós de Gràcia. He believes that the group of merchants "was initially more reluctant but I think they have now seen that it is better." Pons refers to the priority given to pedestrians and the spaces that he has been gaining to enjoy the central streets of Maó . And he adds that many of the cars that used to enter the historic center "only went around looking for parking."