When City Hall construction work drags on

On May 19th, two months and three days ago, a street in the Raval district called Torres i Amat was closed to vehicle traffic. It was three wide.

Nine weeks have passed and the street is still upside down, closed to vehicle traffic.

Despite its modest size, Torres i Amat street is very busy, as it forms the corner of Joaquim Costa and leads into the Ronda de Sant Antoni, opposite the entrance to the Goya Theatre. Right there, on a balcony, they've hung a banner that says: "if it's like this?"

The pieces they've found are from an old convent and the archaeologists' final report will still take two weeks, exactly. The work will be finished in September. Doing work in the city is necessary, but dragging it out without further explanation is harming the residents, the passers-by who are losing money. One more day with the work stopped may not be important in an office, but for those who live there and those who pass by it is a sentence, especially when we are no longer talking about a few days, but more than three months.