The Badalona City Council will install an autonomous reading room between the neighborhoods of Coll i Pujol and Sant Cris, on Vila Vall-llebrera street. This is equipment that will not have personnel and will operate autonomously with electronic access and video surveillance systems.
A 400 m2 space owned by the city council located on the ground floor of a building will house a room enabled for reading or study that can be accessed by any resident of Badalona who activates the access device, although it is designed for students who need a space. to be able to concentrate. It will have three different spaces, one for reading, a study room and another for skilled work for school groups. It will have electronic access control, video surveillance systems connected to the Guàrdia Urbana and state-of-the-art internet access. Maintenance and cleaning will be the responsibility of the Badalona City Council.
The mayor, Xavier Garcia Albiol, explained at a press conference that this is a project his party had planned long before a motion of censure relegated it to the opposition in 2015. In addition, he recalled that since then “it has not been built “No municipal equipment” nor, he lamented, “has any maintenance been done on what we already have.”
Albiol also recalled that it is the first facility in the Coll i Pujol neighborhood, which he judged to be a forgotten area that suffers a grievance, so “we will put in a city facility that will be an example of functioning and modernity.” It will also be, he added, “the first cultural facility in the Sant Crist neighborhood” that only has a multi-sports court.
The planned investment for the study room is 300,000 euros. The works have already started and once finished the furniture and security and electronic elements will be installed. According to the mayor, it may be in operation in the second half of 2024 and he announced that “it will not be the last of this type of equipment that we install in the city, at least two more.”
