Our readers regularly send us messages and emails regarding Lanzarote, here are some of your thoughts that we printed in the September edition.
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FEMÉS CORRECTION
Hi,
Just a quick note regarding your article on ‘Speed traps on Lanzarote’.
The LZ 702 is only banned to cyclists from the top of Femés to the 1st roundabout on the descent to Playa Blanca.
Therefore, cyclists can cycle up to Femés from the Camel Roundabout, but cannot descend into Playa Blanca. Great views and also a good place to stop for some refreshment.
Kind Regards, Mike Gardener.
Ed: Thanks, Mike, you’re right. We didn’t notice the small 5 km sign beneath the No Cycling and No Heavy Vehicles signs at the camel roundabout.
PAINTING THE TOWN RED
Dear Editor,
I’ve just visited Tías to find the streets covered with bright red markings. These seem to be signalling that cycles now have priority on the roads.
That’s OK with me (although I’m sure it’ll send some motorists ballistic) but do the markings have to be so vivid?
This happened on some roads in Playa Honda a few years ago, where the council requires shops to be decorated in black and white to “preserve César Manrique’s aesthetic ideals”, then painted the roads bright red.
Yours, Graham C.
WAR ON LOCKS
Dear Ed,
Here’s my response to Dave from your July issue:
G’day Dave, I guess I must be one of your ‘miserable moaning snobs’ because I for one, am so pleased to hear that Yaiza council have done what I wish to goodness Tias council would do in Puerto del Carmen, and gone and removed those oh so tacky bloomin’ padlocks.
They are an ugly blemish on an otherwise beautiful rustic backdrop that is trying to sell itself on its natural appearance. Being daubed with stupid little pink padlocks with bright silver-coloured shackles and naff messages is not a look that others want to look at. Surely, it is graffiti (at least) or vandalism and should be penalised in the manner of any other similar offences.
Let’s lose the lot, island wide, and ban sales of them in the first place. Give me a contract and I’ll happily go and crop them.
Regards, Richard Puerto del Carmen
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