New Traffic laws have come into force within Arona, the first for 12 years, however its deemed to be more restrictive than previously.
Among its articles, it prohibits the parking of motor homes in tourist areas, like the movement of motorcycles from midnight to 07:00 hours in the town centre and residential areas.
It also provides for the limitation of rental cars parked in the vicinity of offices, which may not exceed five; the council may restrict the use of vehicles on certain routes, enabling areas exclusively for pedestrians as well as raising the minimum age to drive certain vehicles. In addition, it may prohibit the sale of vehicles within its municipal boundaries, in addition to advertising on public roads.
The new measures also relate to the detention and removal of vehicles, shortening the time for the declaration of them as ‘solid waste’. In this sense, after 15 days of having placed the sticker on a car abandoned it will then move to the municipal deposit "and if it is regarded as solid waste, will be submitted for scrapping", but the holder thereof shall be fined more than 300 euros.
Manuel Reveron, councillor for Traffic in the City of Arona, says that changing the ordinance, which was first approved in June 1996, "was necessary in order to bring such legislation to economic development and population of our town, as well as to new regulations "in terms of traffic and road safety administrations that have to be put in place.
"In recent years there have been major changes in legislation regulating to the movement of vehicles, while society demand greater measures to protect the life and physical integrity of individuals and their property,"
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