Visit to works (2)

According to the street name, Muntaner Street pays homage to Ramon Muntaner, chronicler, Almogavar, chamberlain, mayor of Ibiza, with a biography that would justify a Game of Thrones -type series. The street is in the news because, for thirteen months, the works to extend metro line L8 will interrupt, in the name of sustainability, the usual flow of traffic. Let it be known that the thirteen months are an estimate. That means we'll have to apply the corrective principle for the new Camp Nou or the already old Plaça de les Glòries: "any official project submerged in an announced estimate experiences a delay equal to the clumsiness of those who set the deadlines."

To distribute—or "smooth out ," they say now—the traffic that until now had been handled by Muntaner Street, the City Council has ordered previously announced measures that began on Monday. Vehicles traveling down Muntaner Street will have to detour first onto Madrazo Street (to the right) and then (to the left) onto Amigó Street, which, as of a few days ago, has reversed direction. As a trial period, the change to Amigó Street has caused some concern among residents and, above all, the fear that, starting in September, this change will further reduce parking spaces in an area where parking was already very difficult.

Cars coming down Muntaner will have to detour through adjacent streets.

On Monday morning, however, everything was working quite well. The cars heeded the signs, and the V13 bus was able to turn onto Madrazo and Amigó without engaging in psychopathic curve driving.

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The work? It's started slowly. Everything is designed to respect traffic on the cross streets (Madrazo, Laforja, Marià Cubí, and Avenir) and, wisely, there are signs, just in case, reminding us: "We apologize for the inconvenience." On Monday, the inconvenience was the heat, which affected the movement not of vehicles but of workers, who sought shade to prepare for an imminent deployment. There's a ditch in the right lane that will be widened until it fills the chasm. A ditch that will attract all kinds of machinery and, by extension, the inevitable complaints and outbursts from pedestrians, neighbors, and drivers unwilling to apologize for the inconvenience.