They estimate that if the work is completed before December, they would benefit.
In downtown San Félix, construction work continues on the Ramírez and Sucre corridors; however, not as fast as merchants and customers expected, who expressed their concern regarding the long time of the work carried out by the Caroní Mayor’s Office.
scoop found this Tuesday that the work team was on the site and the pedestrian crossing remained open in the morning hours. The citizens surveyed highlighted the delay in the completion of the project, although they applaud the idea of relocating the street vendors, describing it as a better organization for them.
Juan Contreras, one of the merchants, explained that 2022 had gotten off to a good start in the clothing store, but when construction began on the boulevard in Ramírez in the first days of September, sales fell by 30% due to the limitations of transition to formal businesses.
Contreras did not rule out that the project is a good decision, but in his opinion, they began on the wrong date due to the proximity of the school and Christmas season.
“One who knows this area to get here has to make a thousand and one turns,” lamented Contreras, following telling that people come with their vehicles and see several access roads blocked.
He does not know how the year will end in terms of earnings, since they depend on the work. If it is finished before the month of December, they will be able to benefit.
The same observation was made a block later in a shoe store on Sucre Street, the same street with repairs.
“The boulevard is a tremendous idea, that will make people like to walk through these streets, it will attract sales, but they do go a little slow, they don’t finish doing what they want to do,” they said following mentioning that the work began a month and a half.
Relocated Pedlars
In the first section of Ramírez, part of the informal vendors from Sucre and Mariño are organized by municipal regulations with certain setbacks.
Félix Ruiz, spokesman for Ramírez Street, mentioned that more than 150 colleagues are adapting to a new work model, “it is not easy to accept something overnight, but we are doing everything possible to live together and get ahead.” The clientele has also been gradually adjusting.