Among the outputs of the 2018 Hondarribia SUMP was the establishment of a traffic calming zone around the Akartegi neighbourhood and the treatment of the area of the Talaia Institute and the Talaia Bordari school as a priority axis of action. The ntervention in this school environment should not be limited to the exterior spaces within the plots of the centres and public space next to the access points, but it was necessary to consider actions in the nearby road used as a school road.

In response to these needs, the Talai Alai project, was launched, a participatory process for the diagnosis and pre-design of proposals at the pre-project level in the area surrounding these educational centres. The second half of this project took place at the same time as the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and the drafting of proposals for the development of the SUMP to adapt to the new circumstances. Among them, the City Council began to work on a proposal for the whole of Akartegi area, beyond the school environment, under the slogan Itxeki Hondarribia.

The result was a strategic proposal for the reorganisation of traffic and interventions to improve public space in the entire Akartegi area by means of a tactical urban planning intervention whose objectives were, on the one hand, to improve the quality of the entire area and pedestrian access, as well as traffic calming through changes in the layout of the roadway, incorporation of Muxu eta agur (Kiss and Go) spaces, use of furniture to hinder the mobility of motorised vehicles and improve the quality of the spaces, signposting and marking by means of vertical signs and new road markings and surface treatment of the pavements by different types and colours of paint to increase the legibility of the space. After the corresponding execution project was drawn up, a new participatory process was carried out in 2022 to compare the solutions proposed and introduce modifications.

Finally, the proposal was executed during the month of February 2024 and was inaugurated in April 2024 with an open-air party in the intervention space, a participatory mural on the façade of the school together with the students of Talaia school and high school and the local artist Julia Lasa and guided tours of the intervention for families.