The new space is located in an area of high demand, close to the Health Center, the Civil Guard, the Tourist Office, and numerous hospitality establishments. With this new infrastructure, the local government continues to advance its policy of creating park-and-ride facilities, a key strategy to promote mobility, improve traffic flow, and facilitate access to the municipality's services and shops.
The mayor of Soutomaior, Manu Lourenzo, highlighted that "parking was one of the main problems in Arcade, and one of this Government's major challenges has always been to find spaces and improve parking areas in our municipality. Today, we can say that Soutomaior has almost 200 more parking spaces than when we took office, and this is also possible thanks to the generosity of the residents who are freely ceding their plots to serve the entire municipality".
Lourenzo emphasized that Arcade currently has nearly 400 parking spaces within a five-minute walk of its urban center, using the Alameda de Talo Río as a reference point. This network of spaces, along with the implementation of the 'zona azul' (paid parking) and the creation of park-and-ride facilities, is helping to resolve a problem that for years had conditioned the mobility and commercial and social activity of the town.
"With the effort of everyone, we are leaving behind a situation where parking problems were constant. Thanks to the 'zona azul' and the new park-and-ride lots, Soutomaior has practically overcome this difficulty, although we continue to work on improvements," the mayor stated.
In this regard, the local government continues to work on enabling a new urban parking lot in Arcade, aiming to strengthen parking supply and address the remaining parking issues that still persist in the urban center. The Council thus reaffirms its commitment to a more orderly, convenient, and accessible mobility model, which facilitates the daily lives of residents and visitors who come to Arcade to use its services, shop, or enjoy the local hospitality.
