The neighborhood rebellion against the car parks has started.
The residents of Moncloa-Aravaca, Mar de Cristal (Hortaleza) and Tres Olivos (Fuencarral-El Pardo) are on the warpath over the installation
of car parks in their neighborhoods
, which they consider unnecessary.
The creation of these parking lots
favors the Madrilenians who live far from the center
and come from the suburbs to work, but it harms the inhabitants where the garages are installed, who do not want to be flooded by cars from other areas.
The inhabitants of Aravaca have been mobilizing for months against the construction of a large five-storey car park with almost 1,000 spaces on the car park that is currently located next to the Cercanías station and which
will cost 16 million euros.
Neighbors assure that there is no parking problem in that area and, in fact, in the current parking lot
there are free spaces on a daily basis
.
“A few years ago we did have problems, but the traffic on the streets was reordered to be able to park in battery and we won 400 new spaces.
We don't need more.
But if they create another 1,000, they will attract traffic to our area and
the access roundabout will be blocked,
"says Regina Chambel, president of the Aravaca Osa Mayor Neighborhood Association.
Improve air quality
The Madrid City Council argue that these car parks aim to improve air quality by preventing the entry of vehicles into the central almond and that is why they are located in the vicinity of the M-30 and M-40 or near the stations of subway or suburban.
In fact, they
are free for users of public transport
, but not so for residents.
However, the Regional Federation of Neighborhood Associations (FRAVM) maintains that it is not only that cars do not reach the city center, but that
the peripheral neighborhoods can also breathe.
The start-up of these garages was the great proposal of the former mayor Manuela Carmena, who promised to build 12 car parks with 10,000 spaces so that cars could park on the outskirts of the city and not access Central Madrid.
However, of all of them
only one rose
: that of the Metropolitan Wanda.
The other eleven promised car parks were to be installed in
Pitis and Paco de Lucía (Fuencarral)
, Fuente de la Mora and Canillejas (Hortaleza), Valdebebas (Barajas), Santa Eugenia (Vallecas), San Cristóbal, Villaverde Alto and Villaverde Bajo Cruce ( Villaverde), Spanish Aviation and Colonia Jardín (Latina).
Of these eleven, those of San Cristóbal, Villaverde Alto, Santa Eugenia and Colonia Jardín were parked due to problems with the land, which was not owned by the City Council.
José Luis Martínez-Almeida's team then looked for
six
other
new locations
in Tres Olivos (Fuencarral-El Pardo), Moncloa-Aravaca, Barajas, Valdebebas, Puerta de Arganda (Vicálvaro) and Mar de Cristal (Hortaleza).
20170416 Map of future dissuasive car parks in Madrid
However, these new locations have not sat well with the neighbors.
«In this area there is already a tremendous traffic jam.
We have the same access bridge from more than 50 years ago.
500 vehicles at rush hour?
Where are they going to come and go if right now they can't?
This is going to be hell, "criticizes Javier Gómez, spokesman for the Platform against Parking Tres Olivos.
Vicente Pérez Quintana, head of Urban Planning and Housing at the FRAVM, further alleges that these car parks
should be located on the outskirts of the city
and not in the interior.
“These car parks more than dissuade what they do is encourage people to take the car to go to work.
The car parks must be off the M-40 in front of the suburban station so that people can move
around by public transport
, "he says.
The PSOE also criticizes the construction of these garages "without impact studies"
where there is no demand
and they condemn that the councilor-president of the Fuencarral-El Pardo district, Javier Ramírez, has forbidden to install tables to collect signatures against the Tres Olivos garage , but it has allowed to do so against pardons.
"
Green areas
are going to be
destroyed
and tens of millions of public euros are going to be spent unnecessarily. In Tres Olivos they will have to cut down 70 trees to raise this grotesque", argues Ignacio Benito, socialist councilor responsible for the Environment.
Residents also report that the newly opened Fuente de la Mora deterrent car park, in the Virgen del Cortijo neighborhood,
is almost empty every day
.
Neighbors criticize the opacity with which the City Council is acting.
“There is zero transparency and zero participation.
It is the best plot in the district and it
would be a perfect place to have a library,
"concludes Raquel Collado, spokesperson for the Mar de Cristal Platform No to Parking.
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