Commercial disorder in the beach center generates claims from business

"The beaches center looks like Guayaquil's bay, but messy and without respect for pedestrian security".This summarizes Carlota Lázaro, 32, the scenario presented by the shopping center of the only salty water spa that has the province of Guayas.

Lázaro, who has lived for more than 20 years in this area, believes that beaches should be an example of order for being a tourist center.

From the Civic Square, walking along the Avenida 15 de Agosto to the Zenon Macías, which add up to five blocks, people must walk in Zig Zag, going down and climbing the paths, due to the amount of fruit stalls, legumes, plants, clothes, clothing, shoes, watch workshops and cell phones, appliances and motorcycles that place the stores in the portals, details Humberto Ayala, another inhabitant who is worried about the disorder with which he must deal with daily.

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A similar complaint expresses Pedro Escalante, driver of a van, who points out that some merchants place their posts on the sidewalks, while others do so in the street, hindering vehicular and pedestrian traffic.“There are sectors in which vehicles cannot park because there are sellers;If they do, they are two meters from the paths, ”he laments.

Unfair competition, which also generates problems and disorder in the tracks, must be regularized;If there is an ordinance to apply it, let's prevent chaos from growing in the streets

Carlos Daqui, comerciante

The municipal authorities assure that they are regularizing street vendors and that, at the same time, they execute actions contemplated in the ordinances.

But the complaint is not only because of the invasion of public roads, it also comes for the competition.Patricia Chavarría, owners.

Poverty throws people to the street to look for each day's bread, I have nothing against, but there must be order and respect for those who pay and generate work

Segundo Gualli, dueño de unsupermercado

On that same avenue (August 15), from the Pedro Menéndez Gilbert to Carlos Paredes, the owners of clothing stores, shoes and other products also have competition in the street."Hunting vendors offer the same articles as us," say those affected.

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Ramiro Rivera, owner of a business in the beaches center, points out that this situation affects all formal trade.“Tax, permits, light, water and employees are paid;while informal, for not having these commitments, sell cheaper, ”he says.

Carlos Daqui, merchant of the municipal market, denounces that at the entrance of the square there is also informal trade that reduces its sales, without anyone putting order.“The civic square, where the church and the municipality are, is also another market that occupies streets and paths.If you do not put order, beaches will lose its tourist image, ”said Patricia Jara, a tourist who arrived from El Oro's province.

The informal ones, who prefer to maintain anonymity for fear of reprisals, revealed to express that they do pay permission that goes from 80 dollars to $ 120 per year, according to the product they sell.

Others say they pay from $ 12 to $ 50 daily for being streetsses.“The attitude of the municipality is very human, when letting us work; Cadadía there are more people in the street looking for the‘ real ’(money) for his home, because he has no job.I prefer to violate some ordinance, rather than steal, ”said a Venezuelan seller who has no permission for the sale of arepas.

Wilmer Reyes, head of public roads, acknowledges that the center is turned into a market."We are trying to regularize the informal, giving training and putting uniforms that identify them, but we also respect the ordinances that must be restructured as regards public space and the use of land that is sieondomal interpreted by some merchants," he said.

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The official regrets that when it comes to putting order, making some retention of the product of the product for some infraction, citizens support merchants, hindering the work of the Metropolitan Police."The one who has the right to work does not mean that there is disorder.At the moment there is no permission to anyone, ”he said.

Payment 140 dollars annually for permit and $ 160 for rent, so I think it is not fair that the competition has freedom to put it where they want, without paying anything

Pilar Chavarría, propietaria de un local