No doubt that when a neighborhood has suffered from years of neglect and abandonment by the City of Santander, to a simple coat of paint would make it appear as new friendly.
For my neighborhood, popularly known as Santa Teresa / El Carmelo, this was not just that the traps set by a ridiculous urbanization seems designed more as production of torture camps that living space, by way of stairs and more stairs connected by passages narrow homes designed to make it impossible to install an elevator, etc. but also of years of neglect, which had caused the stairs are worn, no slabs in a permanent danger just saved by the rusty rails occasionally fell and spent ten months ten contributing to obstruct the passage.
money from those who like the Mayor Santander, which are not yours and does not assume responsibility any, have used these months on a project pompously called "Improving the accessibility of the Santa Teresa neighborhood." Cantabria funds in Europe and therefore for a project designed by Santander in which they have rectified the stairs, railings and low walls have been installed in one of the vials escalators and a lift megamoderno wonderful and amazing performance, as it serves 20 steps to save! A road has been widened further to finally if an ambulance or a fire engine have to enter the area they may move a bit more in the neighborhood.
And indeed, the impression of the area today, with the work still unfinished and the scheduled opening last pompous water, is of course much better than the area had previously.
And yet ... What if we did not stay in the surface data and try to assess how they have spent public money, especially if we consider that is more than likely be another 50 years before a municipality is involved in the neighborhood?
Mayor has managed to loop the loop and conceptual nirvana of accessibility, inaccessible. Both the north end and by the south end of the quarter, the problem is no longer the poor condition of the stairs, but who and how to access them. In none of the roads there are ramps, so you have to think again baby carriages, wheelchairs, shopping carts or bags are the will and wish to access their portals. Has been closed in the north end of way of 2.5 meters with a beautiful railing delimiting the limits to 1 meter, slightly more than half a meter at some point, so that where before you could move some risk now only is possible to cross on foot and without belongings. Come on, we have spent much money on new clothing but have not won anything, or almost anything to be fair, as were the problem and intent.
laughed a lot facherÃo the other day the local media in a forum where Eugenia Gomez de Diego spoke of a city designed in key women and De la Serna did not understand the women's time. Then with less laughter this would be a perfect example. Money is spent on a project that has not consulted with neighbors and could have been drawn from other parameters (cross-ramps, for example), a project that perpetuates the difficulties of living in twenty portals in living mainly older people which has ratified the sentence of confinement. A woman may have thought at length in the vials had remembered how difficult it is up or down stairs (even mechanical) with a pram or a wheelchair. Frankly, I hope that when we finally inaugurate the work hold the council of mobility with a wheelchair, and try to cross the area in the direction of a building somewhere. Because some are going to be red, or at least should.
Of course, now there are three portals that firefighters can get to see them burn the other seventeen.
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