The new infrastructure advisory committee of Barcelona City Council, chaired by Santi Vila, promised to gather various sensitivities and the list of 24 members who will be part of it demonstrate this, with different approaches to the problems for which they are called to provide solutions.
Vila’s signings, who have been compiling the list based on their own contributions and those of municipal groups, include everything from important personalities from the business world to public transport activists and experienced politicians who have been part of the municipal government and other administrations.
Among the members of the new consultative body “plural and which will work independently” stand out the former mayor of Barcelona and current president of Hispasat, Jordi Hereu, as well as the former councilor for Territory -just like Santi Vila- and current coordinator of the Neighborhood Plan, Pere Macias, who was linked to the City Council in the previous mandate in front of the tram connection project for the Diagonal. Another former councilor of the Generalitat, in this case the economy area, who has accepted to be part of the committee is Andreu Mas-Colell.
The former president of the port of Barcelona, ??Joaquim Coello, also joins. With extensive experience in the municipal machinery, the lawyer and former deputy mayor of Urban Planning Ramon García-Bragado, and the architect Albert Civit, stand out.
The RACC, as an entity that always appears when talking about mobility in Barcelona, ??will be represented by its president, Josep Mateu. At the other extreme is the former president of the association for the promotion of public transport (PTP), Ricard Riol. The ideas of the various members will help create reports and analyzes on issues that have an impact on the city, such as the expansion of the El Prat airport.
As we want to go beyond roads and railways, and energy infrastructures such as water are taken into account, the president of Agbar, Ángel Simón, has also joined. In addition, the advisory committee has prominent personalities from other fields such as the director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Mateo Valero, and the president of Abertis and former president of the Cercle d’Economia, Salvador Alemany.
The list of professionals is completed by renowned engineers such as Albert Vilalta Cambra, Jordi Julià, Francesc Robusté and Elena Campelo, the architects Josep Ferrando and Jordi Artigas, the aviation consultant Bet Cahué, the computer scientist Teresa Serra, the economists Marta Continente, Teresa Garcia- Milà and Elisabet Viladecans and researcher Mercè Crosas. In total, 16 men and eight women who will work under the coordination of the City Council’s chief engineer, Oriol Altisench.
