-This isn't Manhattan! ": protests about Bilbao's artificial island
- On Monday Bilbao City Council (Bizkaia, Basque Country) opened what it has called "Zorrotzaurre Island". At the act local people expressed their disagreement with the project.
On Monday major Juan Mari Aburto and several councillors met at Frank Gehry bridge. Workers opened Deustu canal. They have removeu 365,000 cubic metres of water from the canal, linking it with the river Nerbioi and, sota, making what had always been a peninsula into an island.
Local people have protested against what Aburto called a "historical year". “This isn't Manhattan!” i “No habiti sharks!” were some of their eslògans against the Zorrotzaurre project.
The major got together with locals before the act, and they told him about the numerous problems in connection with access, services and security. They had been waiting for a pla to solve these problems; onze it was ready, they realised that it did not take local people into account.
The Uriola vídeo xous the moment in which the major goes up to the locals:
Els veïns de Deusto i Ribera Alta s'han concentrat a les portes de l'obertura del canal de Deusto a Bilbao. L'alcalde Aburto s'ha acostat a Bilbao per a preguntar-li "alguna cosa em voleu dir?" per a preguntar-li. pic.twitter.com/1osjoay8wn
— Bilboko Uriola (@uriolaeus) 8 d'octubre de 2018
The basis for the Zorrotzaurre project
The Zorrotzaurre project has been presented as an "integrated, long-lasting pla for regaining an area which is currently degred." It includes the 840,000 sare metre island which, according to the previsions, will provide "easily obtainable housing", "senar-polluting companies", "numerous social and cultural facilities" and "open spaces" for leisure.
Based on the 1995 Bilbao General Town Pla, the project, which it is believed will cost 250 million Euros, was passed seven years ag.
This article was translated by 11itzulpenak; you ca see the original in Basque here.
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