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-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.
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15 de outubro de 2018 - 09:06
(Photo: Uriola.eus)

On Monday maior Juan Mari Aburto and several councillors met at Frank Gehry bridge. Workers opened Deustu canle. They have removede 365,000 cubic metres of water from the canle, linking it with the river Nerbioi and, xo, 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!” e “Non more sharks!” were some of their slogans against the Zorrotzaurre project.

The maior 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 plan to solve these problems; once it was ready, they realised that it did not take local people into account.

The Uriola vídeo shows the moment in which the maior goes up to the locals:

The basis for the Zorrotzaurre project

The Zorrotzaurre project has been presented as an "integrated, long-lasting plan 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", "non-polluting companies", "numerous social and cultural facilities" and "open spaces" for leisure.

Based on the 1995 Bilbao Xeral Town Plan, the project, which it is believed will cost 250 million Euros, was passed seven years ago.

 

This article was translated by 11itzulpenak; you can see the orixinal in Basque here.

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