The proliferation of lottery banks on streets and avenues, in neighborhoods and residential areas arrabalize the city and generate visual pollutionin addition to the fact that, in many cases, they violate distance rules and municipal regulations for the use of sidewalks.
The different consortia of this business are everywhere in small and striking spaces. There are in residential areas and exclusive, such as Piantini, Renacimiento, La Esperilla, Los Prados, La Castellana and on avenues such as Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Máximo Gómez, Rómulo Betancourt, José Núñez de Cáceres, Gregorio Luperón, Sarasota and Independencia Avenue, among others.
But also in middle class sectors such as Gascue, Ensanche Espaillat, Ensanche Luperón, Evaristo Morales, Ensanche Quisqueya, Los Jardines, Ensanche La Fe, María Auxiliadora, Ciudad Colonial, among others. But the greatest number of these businesses are established in the marginalized neighborhoodssuch as Gualey, Los Guandules, Capotillo, Cristo Rey, Los kilometers, Los Ríos, Los Praditos and others in the National District.
Increasingly benches
It is estimated that in the country there are more than 150,000 seats of lotteries and in the National District A large number is concentrated, many of which violate regulations such as distance between them and the boundaries regarding the pedestrian part. The construction distance from the sidewalks It varies depending on the place from 0.50 meters to four meters.
On a tour of Free Diary along avenues, neighborhoods and residential areas of the National District It was observed that many of the benches violate the ordinance 1-2021, that establishes a model of a compact, sustainable, resilient, liveable, entrepreneurial, equitable city through a city road system with a focus on respect for public spaces.
He article 6 of universal standards, applicable in any sector of the National District establishes that: “The paved part (of the sidewalks) will be free of obstacles and interruptions, with a concrete, non-slippery and high albedo rolling surface. Its concrete finish will only be combined with other materials when it is applied to horizontal signage, when it is intended for motor or visual disability issues, or for major traffic indications intended to protect pedestrians.”
However, it was found that some of the benches They break the official design of the sidewalks and in front they place mosaics, some slippery to “beautify” the premises and in other cases they raise the level of the rooms. sidewalks obstructing the pedestrian traffic for people with motor disabilities who use wheelchairs.
On occasions, pedestrians have been injured when tripping over the unevenness of new constructions and the original level of the sidewalks and in others they have slipped due to the placement of inadequate slabs or mosaics.
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Another violation is that the roofs of some of the benches protrude and invade the area of the sidewalks, thus violating paragraph 8 of resolution 1-2021, which indicates: “Fragmentation, change of pavements, elevation of the level or inclination of the sidewalks in front of property entrances is prohibited, this is to guarantee a pedestrian path at a homogeneous and safe level.” Balconies or elements that protrude from the front boundary are also not permitted on all levels.
It is prohibited to install benches lottery near public schoolsschools, hospitals, churches, daycare centers and child care or service centers, however, in some areas the resolutions are not respected and there are premises of this type next to school walls.
The resolution 005-2019 annulled another measure that established a minimum distance of 200 meters between the premises of benches. The best example of the disorder of benches It is Francisco Villaespesa Street, in Villa Juana, where “Banca Real” has six stores on the same sidewalk in a space of less than 400 meters. On Expreso V Centenarios Avenue there is a bench under one of the pedestrian bridges.
