The never-ending Works

The eighth intervention in Salamanca Street St. Paul will end the pavers installed twelve years ago.

Put another way: it is the eighth time, and perhaps not the last, that the street is cut in municipal unpredictability and improvisation.

It seems, however, that this damage and inconvenience to residents, pedestrians, vehicles and trade in general not the least disruptive to our authorities. Not be explained, if not, who a few months of 1997 and was remodeled to re-drill the street to raise the level of the sewers. Then, among other problems, it was found that the noise pollution tax paving the area with trepidation traffic to the bridge output Enrique Estevan.

If this is not, there are usually other reasons for the repetition of works that had to be executed once. For example, the underground wiring. Our capital city is not the only course that once paved a street after fixing water pipes reopened to rewire phone. Or the electrical conduction. Or the installation of broadband ...

The thing, as seen, is to have the streets always upside down so that staff find something to talk about. Then, if a pedestrian falls by poor fencing or lack of adequate signage and break their necks, too bad.

Our authorities, however, are most prolific in urban overlaps and delays. Or do not we remember the delay in completing the bridge of Santa Marta, the always postponed parking sides, the slow and laborious demolition of houses in the wall, the legal mess of the Grand Hotel, the ins and outs on the hillocks Square, the delay in the works of the English Court and the way to and from the center Gomecello waste?

The good news-bad, I should say, is that so much delay, on the one hand, and both shut down the streets and getting up again, on the other, it costs a paste that does not know where it's going to get the City Council as follow these paths.