With the help of a crane, a team of workers removes what would be the last plant pots left in the center of Mérida, which were placed on the streets to expand pedestrian areas during the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are around 40 pots that were on 56th Street and 65-A, in front of the main entrance of the Lucas de Galvez market.
The concrete flower pots, measuring 40 by 60 centimeters at the base and 85 cm high, would be transferred to the facilities of the Yucatán Highway Infrastructure Institute (Incay), where the others had been stored.
More than 2,000 flower pots were placed on the streets of downtown by the State government, with an investment of more than two million pesos.
As part of the Urban Mobility Improvement Plan, the flower pots were placed on the streets to expand pedestrian space.
The objective was to make the streets safer for pedestrians so they could keep a healthy distance and prevent Covid-19 infections.
Plants of different varieties, including Ceiba trees, were planted in the pots so that when they grew they would provide shade for passersby.
When mobility restrictions were lifted after the COVID-19 pandemic, the flower pots were gradually removed from the streets.
The few that remained on 60th Street and in the Lucas de Gálvez market are gone now.
Plant pots were also installed in the gastronomic corridor on 47th Street, but they are larger than those acquired during the pandemic. Most of the pots removed tonight contained only dry twigs.
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