Reversing Gamonal still resists. Despite the promises of the City, the machines have not started the work Monday to cover the trench that opened on the street of Vitoria and prompted intense protests in the Burgos district, which ended with violent altercations several nights in Burgos and other cities. Mayor Javier Lacalle, announced last Friday that definitely works suspended Monday and begin work to restore the area to its original state. But no machine has come yet.
They have decided to leave the way clear and move the camp who had mounted to assembly - with tarpaulins, food and music, 50 meters away. An initiative taken to, first, that the machinery could start working, but on the other, to also continue complaining. In fact, a group of less than a hundred people in the area remain vigilant and monitor the work of the company responsible if you begin to plug the gaping hole.
Eight million euros to develop within a mile was what was going to cost the boulevard. And five million planned spend on a private car park with 246 spaces, 19,800 euros each by a 40-year concession. Gamonal is a working class neighborhood with 60,000 inhabitants -Burgos has a population of 180,000 people, and with many outstanding renovations. Seats with potholes, a library waiting for its facade, buildings with peeling paint, graffiti in schools, few streetlights, few parks and away from kindergartens neighborhood are some issues that are waiting to be attended to settle.
" The boulevard is not a priority for the district. Very nice, very aesthetic, but useless, "he complained Palaceres Theodora, one of the residents of Gamonal that have not left the street from the start of the problem.
People celebrate the neighborhood since Friday, " his achievement " means the cessation of work. Even so, they stop fighting. "We have reached one of our goals, but we lack other," said Enrique Alonso Velasco, Youth IU. At the meeting last Sunday agreed to request the resignation of the mayor, the release of detainees without charge and are the neighbors who decide the most urgent works for your neighborhood. About 2,000 people, organizers have again stated Monday and passed in front of the central government representatives and the City Council to request that no charges were filed against the 46 detainees.
UPyD spokesman, Roberto Alonso GarcÃ_a, said that the compensation of the companies that would be in charge of the works could be half a million euros. Now the question is how those eight million euros will be used. UPyD stance remains the same " draft a master plan for the needs of Gamonal, agreed with the neighbors. With all the neighbors," says Alonso GarcÃ_a. Both the PSOE and IU match this match on the need and importance of citizen participation in deciding where to invest money.
Antonio Fernández Santos, PSOE councilor, said that the city should talk to the neighbors. " There are reforms needed in the neighborhood that need some money and are much more urgent than a boulevard." Gonzalo de Berceo The library is an example of these priorities, as explained Fernandez and only need 150,000 euros to reform the façade, four years ago, suffers landslides. The Socialist Party is demanding the resignation of the mayor, "Mr. Lacalle can not continue for a minimum of democratic criterion " complains Fernandez. IU also supports the mayor's resignation, has recognized Raúl Salinero Councilman IU.
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