Montcada i Reixac has decided to stop the 29 kilometers of road and rail infrastructure and different supra-municipal facilities that affect the quality of life of the 37,000 inhabitants of the municipality. The mayoress, Laura Campos, has demanded today that the city have a special regime as there are already five defined in Catalonia (industrial, tourist, mountain, etc.) and a regulatory framework for the services it provides to Barcelona.
According to Campos, the creation of this law should establish compensation, especially of a fiscal nature. Yesterday the mayoress presented the document Montcada grita basta, a decalogue of demands that was born after analyzing the report of the Barcelona Regional urban development agency.
The figures speak for themselves: the 160,000 vehicles a day that circulate on the C-58 at the limit of several neighborhoods, the impact of another 350,000 cars that the liberalization of the tolls on the C-33 has entailed and the corresponding loss of taxes for the consistory, the 510 trains of the lines that cross the city, with five stations that include level crossings.
The municipality has 41.76 hectares occupied by environmental infrastructures for metropolitan use, such as the treatment plant and the eco-park, in addition to high voltage lines, the gas pipeline that does not serve the municipality, the 40 kilometers of hydrographic network with the Besòs or 34% of ecological connectivity zones are in a critical situation due to the presence of these infrastructures.
This neighboring municipality of Barcelona has been suffering from infrastructures that nobody wants in their city for decades, such as the defunct incinerator, which operated until 2004, or the cement plant in the Can Sant Joan neighborhood, with different resources and complaints about environmental contamination.
Regarding the economic cost of these infrastructures, it is estimated at 17.1 million euros, of which 4.3 million are direct economic costs and 12.8 million are indirect, caused by barrier effects.
The overload of infrastructures has some harmful effects on health: the report details that 24% of the population is subjected to noise at night, which exceeds 55 decibels, while 11% suffers 65 decibels during the day. The document proposes actions to alleviate the inconvenience such as acoustic shielding on the C-33.
