sillydoll
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:
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The passage of years has not shown any improvement to the entrance and exits from the city to make them safer for walkers going to Santiago. They have remained the same or have got even worse, if one looks at the planks that make 'bridges' over the gutters that have increasingly deteriorated.
For two years, the road entrance to the city of Valladolid (should say Leon. see below) has been improved, but not for the pilgrims. The works were carried out for the construction of the rotunda but did not take into account the difficulties for hikers to access the capital. It enabled a dirt road along the fence roundabout at its right bank in the direction of Leon, that the pilgrims may only thank for the opportunity they have to leave inserted into the fence crosses made with branches, wood or other materials.
The problem comes when this new road comes to an end. The signals indicate the pilgrims to continue the N-601 towards Leon, committing an offence by moving back to the vehicles. In addition, at the end of the ramp, the pilgrims find an interim step, just one meter wide and built with some planks of wood placed over a newly built wayside, but left without link to the route of Camino de Santiago, which runs across the road, namely, on the left.
Two double lanes with no pedestrian crossing or traffic lights to regulate traffic and where vehicles, cars, motorcycles and trucks important tonnage moving at high speed are the obstacle they have to confront and cross both the pilgrims who will make on foot, as those who do so by bicycle.
The association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago has lead demands for a solution to this "step" for years. In 2003 they even had a meeting with government (council and city council) which resulted in a promise to build a pedestrian walkway.
At that time it did not materialize and the case is that five years later the situation remains stagnant. The carelessness with which this issue has been dealt with contrasts with the desire of institutions to promote the Camino de Santiago in a province with the largest number of stages of the route James. After years and years of complaints this summer are repeated complaints by pilgrims from all over the world for the few signs that exist in the city to enter and leave it, with the danger this poses.
The passage of years has not shown any improvement to the entrance and exits from the city to make them safer for walkers going to Santiago. They have remained the same or have got even worse, if one looks at the planks that make 'bridges' over the gutters that have increasingly deteriorated.
For two years, the road entrance to the city of Valladolid (should say Leon. see below) has been improved, but not for the pilgrims. The works were carried out for the construction of the rotunda but did not take into account the difficulties for hikers to access the capital. It enabled a dirt road along the fence roundabout at its right bank in the direction of Leon, that the pilgrims may only thank for the opportunity they have to leave inserted into the fence crosses made with branches, wood or other materials.
The problem comes when this new road comes to an end. The signals indicate the pilgrims to continue the N-601 towards Leon, committing an offence by moving back to the vehicles. In addition, at the end of the ramp, the pilgrims find an interim step, just one meter wide and built with some planks of wood placed over a newly built wayside, but left without link to the route of Camino de Santiago, which runs across the road, namely, on the left.
Two double lanes with no pedestrian crossing or traffic lights to regulate traffic and where vehicles, cars, motorcycles and trucks important tonnage moving at high speed are the obstacle they have to confront and cross both the pilgrims who will make on foot, as those who do so by bicycle.
The association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago has lead demands for a solution to this "step" for years. In 2003 they even had a meeting with government (council and city council) which resulted in a promise to build a pedestrian walkway.
At that time it did not materialize and the case is that five years later the situation remains stagnant. The carelessness with which this issue has been dealt with contrasts with the desire of institutions to promote the Camino de Santiago in a province with the largest number of stages of the route James. After years and years of complaints this summer are repeated complaints by pilgrims from all over the world for the few signs that exist in the city to enter and leave it, with the danger this poses.