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Crece el malestar por el cierre del barranco y embarcadero de Masca

Mientras la plataforma de afectados alerta de la debacle económica para la zona, la alcaldesa de Buenavista justifica la inoperatividad de la infraestructura por motivos de seguridad

Aumenta el malestar entre empresarios, trabajadores y vecinos por el cierre del embarcadero de Masca, una vez que ya ha sido reparada la fractura del pilar de la pasarela dañada por un temporal a finales de febrero. La inoperatividad de esta infraestructura ha provocado, a su vez, la cancelación del sendero a través del barranco que encuentra en la costa su única salida. Los afectados, que han constituido una plataforma para exigir que los barcos puedan traer y llevar a los senderistas, aseguran que la situación es insostenible para 300 familias, que dependen económicamente de las excursiones turísticas en uno de los parajes más visitados del noroeste de Tenerife.

Desde la plataforma se define la situación de “crítica” al desconocerse aún cuánto puede durar el cierre. El tiempo pasa y las empresas aseguran que ya han comenzado los despidos de trabajadores, a la espera del levantamiento de la suspensión. La alcaldesa de Buenavista del Norte, Eva María García, argumenta motivos de seguridad para mantener el cierre y recuerda que la competencia no recae exclusivamente en el Ayuntamiento. “No solo es una decisión nuestra, porque tenemos un convenio firmado con el Área de Medio Ambiente del Cabildo para el cierre del barranco y del embarcadero y, por tanto, serán las dos administraciones las que se tienen que poner de acuerdo para su apertura”, aseguró ayer la regidora a la Cadena COPE.

FALTAN INFORMES

“No se ha abierto por un tema de seguridad, no disponemos de todos los informes”, indicó, y recordó que la pequeña infraestructura costera se construyó hace casi 40 años para que los vecinos pudieran desembarcar en las playas de Masca y para alguna evacuación de emergencia. “El embarcadero se construyó por seguridad y para el mantenimiento de la playa, no para realizar ninguna actividad económica, aunque a lo largo de los años se ha convertido en el sostén de empresas de varios municipios”, manifestó.

Eva María García evitó dar una fecha para que los barcos puedan operar de nuevo en la costa de Masca. “Hay obras que realizar en el barranco, desde hace meses trabajamos en los proyectos y estamos en disposición de comenzar los trabajos con el Área de Medio Ambiente del Cabildo. Buenavista del Norte está ahora en el momento de decidir qué quiere hacer con sus espacios naturales y, por tanto, va a regular estos parajes y las infraestructuras que albergan”, indicó la alcaldesa.

 

 

Several companies demand the “urgent opening” of Masca jetty

The affected platform suffers for more than four months the closure of the ravine and sees no reason why the boarding area, once repaired, is not operational yet

The pier is key to the survival of many companies in the area that live on tourism. GIVES The platform affected by the closure of the Barranco de Masca, one of the most visited places in the northwest of Tenerife, requires the City of Buenavista the “imminent” opening of the jetty, once it has been repaired the fracture of the pillar of the footbridge damaged by a storm at the end of February. The group, made up of several companies that live mostly from tourism in the area, says that, after more than four months, the situation is unsustainable for more than 300 families, so it demands the Consistory to open “urgently” the point of embarkation and disembarkation of the walkers, an activity that generates a great economic movement in the whole area.

The companies Masca Express, Marítima Los Gigantes, Canaventura, Active Tourism, Digasports, Sun Holidays Tenerife and the Taxi Association of Santiago del Teide express their concern and discomfort and warn that the Barranca de Masca is their main source of work. “If it remains closed, there are no reasons, we will have no alternative but to send personnel to work,” they say from Masca Express, which has four ships and more than 45 employees. “The problems have been solved and the work that originated the closure has already been delivered,” recalls the Taxi Association of Santiago del Teide, formed by 34 units and more than 50 professionals. Marítima Los Gigantes, which has been collecting hikers for more than 30 years in Masca Bay, confirmed yesterday that it has been forced to fire personnel and stop one of its boats.

The departure route in kayak from Masca to Los Gigantes offered by Active Tourism represents 50% of the total business volume of the activities of this company, while from Sun Holidays, which serves since 1993, it is stressed that the ravine “no it is neither more nor less dangerous than 25 years ago. ” Other companies, such as Digasports or Canaventura, recognize that since February they are struggling to survive.

The City Council of Buenavista del Norte decided to close the ravine on February 26, after eight German tourists had to be rescued when they were isolated due to the action of a storm that also caused serious damage to the pier. More than four months later, companies run out of patience. Their survival is at stake.

The mayor of Buenavista is required to open the Masca jetty

“The Platform Affected by the closure of the Barranca de Masca, require the mayor of Buenavista to open the jetty”

After more than 4 months since the closure of the Barranca de Masca, due to the fracture that occurred in the jetty, companies are forced to lay off staff and even rethink their activity, since they are not able to operate in their usual place of work. More than 300 families will be affected if the Town Hall of Buenavista continues to ignore the office received, where it clearly states the completion of the work at the Masca jetty and that, therefore, should be operational. The platform affected by the closure of Barranca de Masca, require the Mayor of Buenavista, the imminent opening of the pier, we can not postpone this situation anymore, it is unsustainable.

MASCA EXPRESS

February 26; the day of “the fateful news” for our company. On that day, because of the bad weather and the fracture of the jetty pillar, they decided to close the ravine completely. The infrastructure of our company is designed for the collection of walkers. We have, no more, no less, four boats dedicated almost exclusively to this activity; Masca Express, Marina Princess Two, El Rapido and El Rápido dos. Our current staff has more than 45 employees, of which ten of them (both land and sea personnel) are assigned to the organization of this activity; client organization at the pier. Sale of tickets ……. Etc. The situation is as follows; If the Masca ravine remains closed, we will have no alternative but to lay off personnel and this is very painful. Our company philosophy is based on; “Create jobs and create a good future for all”  We do not want to go back, we want to move forward with our current team. “There is no reason to keep the ravine closed!”

 

ASOCIACIÓN DE TAXIS DE SANTIAGO DEL TEIDE

On February 26, the closure of the gully ravine was carried out due to problems with the jetty on the beach. These problems have already been solved and delivered the work that originated said closure. From the taxi association of Santiago del Teide we want to express our concern and discomfort about the permanence of this closure. The association is composed of 34 units and more than 50 people between salaried staff and office staff, most of our taxis are up to 8 seats, since we have adapted to the requests of the walkers of the ravine to be able to give a good service to the groups that make this path. We request the opening of the ravine to avoid having to dismiss people since the services we carried out to that enclave are the main source of work of our association.

 

MARÍTIMA LOS GIGANTES

For more than 30 years we have been collecting hikers from the bay of Masca. At that time, only three or four daily walkers descended. We have been willing to collaborate with any measure that favors the protection of the environment. We have collaborated from the beginning of the construction of the pier to the present, taking construction materials aboard our boats without any compensation and financially supporting any improvement that could be made to offer this trek as a reference on the island. For years we have been expanding our fleet to offer a quality service to our customers. Today, we have four boats that are mostly dedicated to the Masca-Los Gigantes service. We work hand in hand with a multitude of active tourism companies whose main source of income was the Masca ravine and who are currently in a very difficult situation, just like us. The closure of the Masca ravine has forced us to lay off personnel and even stop one of our boats for a long period of time with the great economic loss that this entails. For this reason, from Marítima Acantilados we requested the opening of the Masca ravine after the repair of the jetty as it had been promised since the situation is unsustainable.

 

CANAVENTURA

We are a small company of six people dedicated to hiking, for more than twelve years of experience in the sector. After having carried out numerous advertising campaigns and invested to make known the Barranco de Masca to the visitor by making transport companies work, to companies of boats that operate in Masca, we have been deeply affected by the unexpected closure of the ravine, after knowing that the work has finished, we request the opening of Masca Canyon YA.

 

EMPRESA DE TURISMO ACTIVO

We offer the sea kayak departure route from Masca to Los Gigantes. And this was undoubtedly our most demanded route for more than 6 years since the possibility of combining hiking + kayaking in such a special environment quickly became one of the most suggestive “outdoor” activities you can do in Tenerife. Promoted not only by us but by different tour operators and tour operators. The volume of business that occupies this route in our company is approximately 50% of the total of our activities so you can imagine how we are with the high costs involved in operating from the Port of Los Gigantes, hired personnel and other business expenses . We fully agree with the regulation of the ravine, provided that it is done with common sense, without prejudice to anyone and in harmony with the conservation of the natural space that is transited. We believe that this is possible and the sooner they do it, the better. But we do not understand that once the repair of the jetty is completed, the gully will be closed until it is regulated, since there are many companies and many jobs that depend on the tourist activity in this place and we are suffering a lot the consequences of said closure .

 

DIGASPORTS

Our company DIGA SPORTS has affected the closure of the ravine in an excessive way. We lost our clients’ favorite excursion and with that we lost most of the income. Since February we are struggling to survive. We have fired an employee for lack of work. For us it is very important that the ravine open again, to guarantee fixed and stable incomes.

 

SUN HOLIDAYS TENERIFE

As the owner and representative of SUN Holidays Tenerife, a company that has been working in the Masca ravine since 1993, I want to express my opinion regarding the situation due to closure of the same. We have always worked in a way that is as safe as possible, like the other companies affected. From my point of view there is no reason not to open the ravine. There are several companies, including ours, that have been forced to stop employees because of the closure of the ravine. Today, after having fixed the jetty, the ravine is neither more nor less dangerous than 25 years ago. For the future we recommend doing some type of control at the entrance of the ravine to avoid accidents of walkers without a guide, with inadequate footwear or without the necessary equipment. I do not consider it necessary to put a daily limit of walkers because the numbers that circulated according to the press are very exaggerated. The control of the entrance and the problem of parking can be fixed little by little, they do not force to leave the Ravine while it is solved. If the Ravine does not open it would soon affect the employment situation more and this fantastic product will disappear from the market.

El Ayuntamiento cierra el barranco de Masca hasta nuevo aviso

El Ayuntamiento de Buenavista ha decretado en la tarde de este lunes 26 el cierre del camino del barranco de Masca, después de que ocho senderistas hayan tenido que ser rescatados en barco tras quedar aislados el domingo por el temporal.

Según el consistorio, se trata de una medida con fecha de comienzo pero no de final. Los daños producidos por el oleaje han dejado el embarcadero inoperativo al desprenderse un pilar de la pasarela. Además, los agentes del Consorcio de Bomberos y del GREIM de la Guardia Civil alertaron al consistorio de que “el barranco está impracticable y hay una deficiencia importante en el embarcadero por lo que no existe la alternativa de salir en barco“, ha asegurado la alcaldesa del municipio.

https://dautedigital.es/2018/02/el-ayuntamiento-cierra-el-barranco-de-masca-hasta-nuevo-aviso/

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