We all want to clean up our neighborhood. and it is logical. The big (and thorny) question is… Do all neighborhoods need/deserve/receive the same attention? Or to put it another way, if all the streets are one priority? but if, etc.What criteria to follow decide? It is not a small matter if we consider that however large, rich and well-managed urban resources are limited, even those that provide care on the streets and sidewalks.
For this task, he created Madrid system when at various levels and cleaning intensity, depending on the area. They also allow you to consult in your city on the online map. To no one’s surprise, this option generated controversy differences among their neighbours explanations to be made.
One board, many steps. The measures of the city of Madrid 60,436 hectares. To take care of the cleaning of its streets and sidewalks, he chose the city council system of* four degrees the cleaning process is better visualized with the help of colors and paper than the Town Hall itself offers on its website. Basically, each path has its own color and each color represents different levels of care.
It is a very intense brown and it means that they are doing a very good job of cleaning those streets and sidewalks. At the pole are red and purple, which correspond to degrees three and four and reflect a lower intensity.
Is that all that matters? Yes. explains the Vatican Council itself. To avoid having to track down the heavy details in each of the four steps, we can list what works to include first (brown) and what to include last (purple).
In the areas with the highest level of workers, the goal is to work five times a week, at the same time that they are trained, and a daily “neighborhood” is offered. To ensure that the roads and sides will be clean, the neighborhood is washed and washed manually, so it is also arranged to be at least every day. The situation is quite different at level four (purple), with one neighborhood per week and one bucket per month.
A question about colors (and grades). Between one step and another there are obviously two intermediate steps. In the second wash it is carried out thirteen times a week, at the same times as it is washed. Both are performed on two days. In the category there are different lots that differ in their frequency “food exits”: every day in the streets lots one and two; three times a week on other public days in non-continuous ways. At level three (red), sweeps are performed every other day and one is washed every week.
And how are the colors decided? It’s a big question. Not because of the colors, of course, but because it appears on paper with one or the other that you pass on the road every day, it can be drawn several times a day or once a week.
Consistory it’s clean surrounded The level is assigned to the roads that intend the most activity and that need the most. In their own words, these are public roads that are “dirtier with intensive use and require greater performance”. At the opposite pole, those roads are purple and the side is assigned a “less level of dirt”.
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Complain to Más Madrid. Not long ago, the Más group in Madrid, in the municipal opposition, brought out a magnifying glass to look at the road maintenance system and concluded that some of the city’s wealthiest areas are also the cleanest and among the poorest the dirtiest.
“Looking at the table, we can see that the regions with the highest intensity of cleaning are found, precisely in the regions where the PP had the most support in 2019 (the legislature in which the specifications were made) and the streets with the lowest level. They will also be cleaned in the areas where the votes were perceived to be lower”; The game faded away In a report collected Public.
“Prioritize the richest”;. Joseph Luis Nieto, his advisor, went further He was accused of being a majorJose Luis Martínez-Almeida, showing a direct relationship: “Previously serving the richest regions by providing them with more and more cleaning services.” It is necessary to review the example of his opinion because “there is an incalculable inequality between the regions and between the regions themselves”, especially if the M-30 and the areas located on both sides of the road are taken as a reference.
Getting down to detail. Analysis It comes down to special cases, such as the towns of Valverde and Mirasierra, the latter with chalets, large farms and swimming pools. Although for the first time, Valverde, “has a campaign similar to a school or soccer field”, the report shows that he loses in comparison. From these it is clear that the three cleanest places are also the richest capitals.
Country appointment other examples of it. Although the Quinta is the most famous neighborhood in Madrid, with 42,300 square kilometers of residents, a water pressure cleaning truck passes 75% of Berrugueta once a week. In Castellejo, with 29,000 inhabitants per square kilometre, the situation is different: 65% of its streets are cleaned or washed every day. Always based on data and comparisons collected in a report released a few months ago by Más Madrid.
Colors … and percentages. The percentage usually says more than the long descriptions, the study provides information beyond that echoed in June SER chain: a comparison between the surfaces of each region that enjoy the benefits of level one cleaning; That is, exactly what percentage of each neighborhood is silhouetted in brown on the municipal map.
The analysis shows significant differences. For example, in the center 43% of the surface is one plane. Receipts are also significant in Chamberí (32%), Retiro (29%), Salamanca (27%) or Tetúan (23%). At the opposite pole, in Villaverde, San Blas-Canillejas, Hortaleza, Barajas and Villa de Vallecas the percentage of movements is much lower, 4 or 3%.
Cleaned up the suburbs. Más Madrid is not the only one who shows his concern about how the cleaning of roads and streets is taken care of. In the summer of Facua He also raised his voice to demand amendments and warned that “environmental classes” could be seen at the bottom of the capital. “It is sad that once again the peripheral regions, with the lowest incomes, are cleared for the smallest, while scarcely any human and material resources are allocated.” criticized the association of the consumers inspecting the Cleaning Service contract.
And in other states? Madrid is not the only one that adapts its service to each neighborhood. Council of the city of Barcelona you recognize and that the cleaning of public places is “adapted to the circumstances of each place”, taking into account factors such as vehicular traffic, the passage of people, the frequency of use, commercial activity or leisure and recreation of the area. “Squares and streets do not have the same intensity of use.” they argue from Barcelona This is not the only case consistency who report on their websites that they plan the cleaning taking into account the “needs” and “uses” of each neighborhood.
Images | Daniel Lobo (Flickr) and Council of Madrid
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