Barcelona blocks Gran Via zip line at night after noise complaints

If the remedy is effective, the residents of the great wayin Barcelonathey should not be kept awake more nights by the noise of the zip lines that the city council installed in the section released to traffic on the avenue. The deputy mayor for Urban Planning, Janet Sanz, announced this Tuesday that the city council will block from this Tuesday the huge swing that, for just over a month, occupies the stretch closed to vehicles and that accumulates complaints about the noise of the mechanism and the screams of those who, without exactly being children, throw themselves down the attraction without regard at all hours, to the annoyance of the residents who are trying to sleep.

Thus, the zip line will be unusable between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. to guarantee rest& rdquor ;, Sanz specified in the Urban Planning commission before a request from the municipal group of together. The deputy mayor explained that it is a “test” and it will be checked if it is effective so that “there is no noise & rdquor ;.

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Neighbors in the area have expressed repeated complaints for the inconvenience they have suffered, especially on weekend nights. They assure that some people -often drunk, he maintains- throw themselves on the swing to finish off the party late at night and early in the morning. The Clot-Camp de l’Arpa Neighborhood Association also urged the council to find a solution, fearing that the problem would worsen as the temperature at night softens.

Sanz has ruled out removing the zip lines, as some residents of the consistory urged. “During the day, it is full of people with children who are going to play and it is the first accessible zip line for many families with minors with reduced mobility that they have been able to enjoy. It has become a reference & rdquor ;, has wielded the head of Urbanism of the municipal bipartite. Sanz has defended that attraction “must be compatible with rest& rdquor ;.

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