Do you think there is the necessary consensus to enforce city road infrastructure pose?
"The same as in most political decisions must be taken daily. Is the scheme of operation of representative democracy. We design a manifesto in which we include these proposals, and we guarantee that consensus polls prior ...
April 23 2008, the Cabildo of Tenerife, announced the possibility of piercing the back of Pedro Gil with a 17.5-km tunnel that would connect Güimar with the municipality of La Orotava. According to head of the council, with this infrastructure, citizens would be able to move from Orotava to Guimaras in 5 minutes by a train without a driver and the reasonable price of € 500 million. (A tunnel will cover 17.5 miles between La Orotava and Guimar within 9 years. Opnion. 23/04/2008)
was the beginning of the political infrastructure of the show sponsored by the City Council. A policy premium the largest, fastest and most expensive in terms of mobility in Tenerife. Definitely the political institutions of the island have left any sign of sanity and madness have abandoned proposals for mobility are far from solving the problems of accessibility that is Tenerife. What you get instead is to increase the impact on the territory, economic and energy expenditure, and reinforce deeper emissions in what Alfonso Sanz called hypermobility:
"hypermobility is the excess of human activity linked to transport a hypertrophy that is pathology in the economic, social and environmental. Too and energy resources in the service of an activity that accumulates in excess waste and impacts insatiably demanding public and private economic investment at the expense of other social needs " (Hipermovilidad. symptoms, reactions, and alternatives. Alfonso Sanz. 29/01/2009)
Promoters of this idea fall back into the classic mistakes promoting infrastructure overestimating its supposed advantages, underestimating costs and putting aside the negative impact on the social and environmental. All this suitably dressed with appropriate references to the dogma of economic progress reach the ultimate goal. After the colossal policy in the star architecture with its buildings, the excess in urbanism with its endless beaches and constructive bulimia, the show has come in infrastructure. The three characteristics of this miserable time of the imbalance and deregulation that has led to the current crisis. As seen in the Canary Islands are determined not to leave any of these three alleged sources of progress.
between the weak argument used by the City Council to justify the rail project (either through a high speed train or the Transrapid) has made the argument that all citizens of Tenerife have equal access to opportunities job, regardless of where you locate your residence. A real fallacy which the council has argued insistently. First, because in a community with an unemployment level of around 30%, it seems clear policies work in creation of stable and quality, rather than ensuring the access of the population living in towns away from a job of course not creates, or becomes, but it is destroyed. And second, because from an environmental perspective, in a territory scattered like the canary seems more sensible to avoid, if possible, travel by creating closeness. A long-term policy that we mentioned in previous articles.
A very illustrative in this regard are the words of Vice President and Minister of Economy and Competitiveness island's Cabildo Tenerife, Carlos Alonso. Asked by the head of the space on the accessibility policy of the City Council during a virtual communication organized by the newspaper's Opinion on 26.11.2010, the Minister replied:
The Oikos. Mr. Alonso. The current public service buses is flexible because it adapts to a sparsely occupied, penetrating almost to every corner of the island. It may be timely if your trip is separated from private traffic. It could be faster if you invest in increased frequency, and is a cheap because its renewal requires an investment acceptable and uses an existing infrastructure. Tell me three arguments to justify an investment of more than 3,000 M € in a double rail project or the Transrapid.
"First because it will reduce car use, second because it will make the island more sustainable by reducing the ecological footprint, CO2 emissions, and third, perhaps most important, because it will make the island a metropolitan island with equal opportunities for all regardless of where one lives or where you work
arguments gives us Mr. Alonso has shown that either a total ignorance of the size of the proposed rail project, or outright lies. But above all shows the total absence of the variable environment in their plans. To another question the person responsible for this space Mr. Alonso returns to show off a speech devoid of content:
The Oikos. Good. After the colossal policy on architecture and urbanism now comes the politics of spectacle in infrastructure. With this policy, do not you think, to study the deterioration of the territory rather than solve the problem of accessibility to Mr Alonso?
"Great challenges require great answers, and I mean the size, or spectacular infrastructure. What we have asked, is how to solve the problem of accessibility, and just that has brought us to the choice of means less collapsible territorially less invasive and more environmentally sustainable. With the demographic pressure on the island have the freedom to choose their place of work and residence, with the support needs of rural areas and their activities, access needs of large metropolitan areas, with the dispersion the tourist areas, and the geography of this territory do you know you. better alternative to the proposal?
Mr. Alonso, let me also recommend an interesting text that every good coach or manager should know if you have to face to build a large infrastructure. This text is called hypermobility . Symptoms, reactions, and alternatives. Alfonso Sanz. 29.01.2009 and ends with the comment:
"hypermobility, mega, hyper hipermotorización or are merely expressions of overvaluation or overvaluation (Soria y Puig, 1988) of mobility, cultural and ideological construction especially dating back to the last two centuries in which the faith in progress has been closely associated with the deployment of means and infrastructure for the movement of people and goods. Questioning hypermobility thus leads to a deeper reflection on the ideas which stimulate and, in particular, ideas such as development, growth and progress "
"contribute to the progress of Tenerife with an infrastructure of this kind? I doubt it. Why impose a costly rail project compared to the much cheaper option of betting on a recovery TITSA? Really, show.
Photo 1: Details of the Transrapid. In www.tmk-kaseel.de
Photo 2: Itinerary of a circular rail proposal. In http://www.tgtfe.es
A comment last minute (28/12/2010) Diving
the net I found this article recently on the web Tamaimos on the subject of Transrapid (Transrapid (II): Germany is rushing) . A double very well argued article which shows the real reasons behind the latest effort of Mr. Melchior to introduce the Transrapid in Tenerife.
Those reasons are limited to one economic interests. Work as that performed those responsible for this site are necessary and help to expose many policy decisions that are sold to the public as necessary, final and general interest. We encourage here those responsible for the web to continue with this exciting and necessary project
Those reasons are limited to one economic interests. Work as that performed those responsible for this site are necessary and help to expose many policy decisions that are sold to the public as necessary, final and general interest. We encourage here those responsible for the web to continue with this exciting and necessary project
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