With the campaign in full swing, the PSC has put on the table the plan that it considers that Barcelona must have in the medium and long term to face the “second great stage of transformation” of the city after Olympic Games. Is about cover 8 linear kilometers of the round of Dalt and of the coastal round for the Catalan capital to win half a million square meters of green space, leisure, services and alternative energy generation within a period of 25 years, since the horizon they draw it’s the year 2050. The party has defined it as its “star project” for the future of Barcelona.
The socialist candidate Jaume Collbonihas explained that the philosophy is that what is now a great highway that acts as a “wall” becomes a avenue that goes through neighborhoods and relink projects that are already underway. It would mean, you said, an “objective improvement of life” of more than 100,000 people because more lung would be gained for the city, but also equipment and installation of photovoltaic panels for the generation of electricity. “The city has to dream big again“, he has defended.
1,500 million investment and 10 phases of works
The PSC has quantified that to make this pharaonic work a reality, an investment of 1,500 million euros would be required, which would mean some 60 million annually by the city council over the next 25 years, a figure that it considers “assumable”, but which could also count on resources from other administrations.
In fact, Collboni has laid out his plan in a presentation with the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illawhich has defined this project as “the most transformative” since the 1992 Games and that it has committed itself to “collaborate” actively to make it a reality if he manages to be ‘president’ of the Generalitat. “We make transformative urbanism and not cosmetic urbanism“, the mayor has presumed, an obvious jab, although this time without mentioning them, to the Comuns de Ada Colau. He has also stressed that his proposal is not a smokescreen because it has been studied technically and urbanistically before making it public.
According to the documents provided, the works would be done in 10 phases. Just before the start of the campaign, Collboni already promised to promote a new phase of the coverage of the Ronda de Dalt during the next term, with a view to ensuring that the entire work is completed in 12 years and with a starting investment of 300 million. In those four more immediate years, he assured, the partial studies of each of the phases would be commissioned, with international ideas competitions to solve the urban challenges that will have to be faced at each step. If those 8 kilometers of coverage of the Rondas are done, Barcelona would add a total of 15.6 kilometers lines of coverage of these infrastructures, 60% of the total area.
7 new “centralities” in the city
With this great infrastructure project, he has argued that a “big ring” that connects areas of knowledge, economy and culture connected to the metropolitan area of Barcelona that will become “new urban centralities” in nine different districts. These are: the Vall d’Hebron health ‘hub’, the Besòs industrial estates, a new ‘energy hub’ between Barcelona and Sant Adrià, the Ciutadella university centre; Montjuïc, the Morrot and the new Marina del Prat Vermell neighborhood, the ‘biopol’ around the Bellvitge Hospital and the new Hospital Clínic in the Porta Diagonal area.
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“The Rounds marked a before and after in the history of the city from the point of view of mobility and its structure. Now they have to be an opportunity for the future”, summarized Collboni, who has set the pact that was woven in 2011 to transform the Glories area to guarantee that this plan is carried out taking into account that it is in the medium and long term.
Once again, Collboni has shown his chest to be the “leading” candidate the campaign and has claimed that he is “clear with the voters” and that he is endorsed by “35 years of urban transformations” with a socialist seal in the Catalan capital. To his rival from Junts, Xavier Triashas summoned him to reveal what he intends to do “when he leaves after losing the elections” and to clarify whether voting for him is also voting for Carles Puigdemont.