| Sustainable
Strategies |
Problems/Objections |
| • Traffic management and
Pedestrianisation schemes |
• Create loading and unloading problems for businesses
• Loss of trade particularly for businesses selling heavy goods that
require car parking nearby
• Pedestrianisation schemes outside of the central area involve too much
walking and discourage shoppers e.g. Raval Rambla
|
| • Ronda de Dalt and Ronda Littoral
outer ring road motorways provide a bypass for through-traffic and reduce
cross-city journies
|
• Traffic congestion increased in the
suburbs close to the motorway junctions |
| • Modern public transport system |
• Lack of inter-connections between
the different forms of public transport
• Inaccessible to the handicapped
• Timetabling deficiencies
|
| • Cycle lanes and cycle parking |
The take-up of cycling has been slow (less than 1% of all
trips). This is largely because of:
the hilly terrain, north of the city centre;
the Mediterranean climate which, whilst favourable for
walking, is often perceived as being too hot for cycling;
a perception amongst Barcelonans that cycling is
inconvenient and unsafe in heavy traffic, far more so than other European
countries such as Denmark or the Netherlands; and
a lack of investment, until the 1990s, in cycle lanes and
cycle parking by the municipal authorities.
|
| • The covering of the Ronda de Mig
Ring road. |
• This opened to protestors
complaining about the construction of a market on the new-found street surface
and new council houses in the zone for young people and the elderly instead of
leisure parks.
|
| • Bus lanes |
• Increase congestion for other road
users
|
| • Solar panels |
• Increase the price of housing
|
| • Reuse of brownfield sites |
• The cost of removing toxic substances from the sub-soil can
add significantly to development costs.
• Redevelopment of brownfield sites has some negative effects:
it leads to property speculation, where properties
are bought cheaply, then left empty while the speculator waits for prices to
increase before selling and making a large profit
house prices increase beyond the reach of local
people
Redevelopment can change the social mix of the area
and destroy existing communities
|
| • 22@ High-Tech development |
• Will provide jobs mainly for highly skilled workers and not
for local people
|
| • Diagonal Mar |
• People object to the 'americanisation' of Barcelona, with
the high-rise buildings and the new shopping mall
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