Mayor Collboni’s first resignation when he is about to complete – he will do so on Monday – his first month in office. The municipal government has decided to conclude the open political and neighborhood conflict surrounding the redevelopment of the Ronda Sant Antoni by renouncing the purpose of the socialists, expressed during the electoral campaign, to opt for a reform of this road that respected the initial proposal, presented five years ago, when buses were allowed to pass and more loading and unloading spaces were available.
The revocation of the last remodeling project of the Ronda Sant Antoni, approved by the commons of Ada Colau against the criteria of the socialists, was one of the measures that Collboni had committed to adopt in the first hundred days of his mandate. However, in less than a month, he has changed his mind. The first deputy mayor and head of Urbanism, Laia Bonet, announced it yesterday, after the meeting of the government commission, with the argument that it is a procedure that is “already underway” ‘is bidding – and that, “out of responsibility”, it is better to “respect”.
Bonet added another reason: the space between Floridablanca and Urgell streets, which for years was occupied by the provisional tents of the Sant Antoni market, needs to be urbanized “quickly”.
BComú has received the news that its project – the conversion of the roundabout into a total pedestrian zone – is the one that is being imposed as its first victory after Colau was ousted from the mayor’s office. “ It is good news; it captures the work that the left-wing political forces have done beyond the debates linked to an electoral process and not to a process of transforming the city”, celebrated the former mayor of Urbanism and main promoter of the winning project , Janet Sanz. On the contrary, the Trias per Barcelona group, through the mediation of its spokesperson, Jordi Martí Galbis, has accused Collboni of “lying” after “flagrantly breaching his electoral commitment to reverse the reform”.
