(Live here) - The playground in Hecht Park is closed. What is the reason?
Lahi Pe received complaints from parents that the playground in Hecht Park is closed. One of the mothers said: "I arrived with the girl at the kindergarten and found it closed. Films are attached to the facilities but there is no sign indicating works or warning.'
The accessible playground
As I recall, the accessible playground in Hecht Park was inaugurated in June 2022 at a cost of NIS 7.5 million. The garden, which covers an area of about 2.5 dunams, includes a variety of play and fitness facilities, adapted for adults and children with various special needs. The garden is networked with a voice guidance system, adapted for the blind, which is designed to enable them to be able to orient themselves in the entire park area and receive explanations about the different types of facilities that exist in it, instruction on how to use them and what is the most convenient way to reach them.
In addition, the park includes various dedicated facilities, such as a carousel, which allows children, who use wheelchairs, to get on it and enjoy the experience of using it. The facilities are also adapted for use by adults - parents or the elderly, who use wheelchairs.
The Haifa Municipality informed Haifa:
In the playground, strengthening and maintenance work is being done on the shading facility. The kindergarten is closed for activity as a precautionary measure until the works are completed. The maintenance works, which include dismantling a damaged column, should be completed by Friday (29/3/24). When the work is finished, the garden will open for activity. Meanwhile, a new shading device was ordered for the garden, which will be delivered to the municipality by the end of April 2024 and will be installed in its place immediately upon receipt.
Shading the playground
Speaking of shading, it is important to remember that in recent years Haifa residents, parents and children, have suffered a lot from not shading the gardens in most playgrounds and in most neighborhoods. Parents have endlessly complained about the lack of shade, especially when it comes to the summer, since in the sunny land of Israel it is not possible to play in playgrounds if there is no shade. The scorching sun causes the facilities to boil, which does not allow the children to play, nor does it allow the parents to walk or sit on benches in a shaded place. This year we will continue to monitor and check if the expected change will happen.
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A playground for children and adults with special needs...
The whole world is there, breaking and smashing every good plot.
From the music they destroyed almost all the facilities, in the carousel for children with wheelchairs it is almost impossible to turn the facility...etc...
There is shading in most gardens. Even shadowing in a skateboard park. Apparently everything they do will satisfy serial complainers. enjoy life
Not corrected, still listed in the article:
"The maintenance work, which includes dismantling a damaged column, should be completed by Friday (29/3/24)."
And in any case, it is very puzzling, why is this garden, which is closed every time we come, repaired for so long. A long time? It is always closed and you never see any work in it.
Speaking of shading: our son is 26 today. When he was a baby, I asked the municipality to install shading in a playground in Bordia. I was then told that they had planted trees that should grow and provide shade in the future. As of today, the trees are still very low and do not provide shade. Now, many years later, there is designated shading, but if we had waited for trees to cast shade, we could have waited about 50 years until my son had his own children. So it should be noted that our municipality has increased its head and there is now shading. My son of course did not get to enjoy it because he grew up since...
in the Haifa municipality
Samar, first of all, Ishlech Ishlech, greetings from Mashret, spokeswoman for the Klalit Health Insurance Fund in Haifa and Western Galilee. Yesterday I met you in her office on Meginim Street in Haifa.
When Mayor Yona Yahav comes in, in a few days the Haifa municipality will be in order
Very interesting... I was with the grandchildren even before the war and even then there were red ribbons and facilities that could not be used. This is a fairly new garden and so many deficiencies?
Good day, thanks for the inquiry. Guess there's a typo:
"To be finished by tomorrow (29.4.24)" - tomorrow 29.3
Thanks fixed 🙂