Businesses in Alicante are concerned that the commercial centre planned for the expansion to the Rabasa area of the city, where the new Ikea store is to be built, will increase traffic flow to such an extent that it will bring the city to a standstill.
The commercial centre will cover an area of 300,000 square metres, and a report from Alicante University estimates that it will mean an eightfold increase in traffic in that area, at one of the main entrances to the city. Diario Información reports that experts in the University’s planning department consider the proposed traffic plan presented by the developer, with four main access routes to the sector, as insufficient.
Alicante’s Partido Popular Mayor, Sonia Castedo’s, response on Tuesday was that the location of the development had been ‘very well thought out’, with the aim of avoiding bringing traffic to a standstill.
She said City Hall technicians will, however, study any arguments presented by local businesses, as is their obligation, and take any steps they see necessary to cause as little effect as possible on current levels of traffic flow.
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