Neighborhood weariness due to the stoppage for projects on the A-5 will lead this Sunday to a demonstration in the middle of the Extremadura highway. The last urban highway in Madrid will be cut for the first time in 30 years in protest against the noise and pollution of the highway, with the demand for a solution now! in the form of a burial The protest is called by the neighborhood associations of the Latina district and is supported by the Regional Federation of Neighbors of Madrid (FRAVM), which officially announced this Tuesday a protest that had been running through WhatsApp groups in th
Neighborhood weariness due to the stoppage for projects on the A-5 will lead this Sunday to a demonstration in the middle of the Extremadura highway. The last urban highway in Madrid will be cut for the first time in 30 years in protest against the noise and pollution of the highway, with the demand for a solution now! in the form of a burial The protest is called by the neighborhood associations of the Latina district and is supported by the Regional Federation of Neighbors of Madrid (FRAVM), which officially announced this Tuesday a protest that had been running through WhatsApp groups in this area of the capital for several days. The protest began from the Batán Metro and will end in Campamento in response to "a neighborhood tired of being considered second-class citizens and of having their needs used as a propaganda element during electoral campaigns, without any real intention to improve the neighborhoods." . The demonstration will take Villamanín street to its intersection with Paseo de Extremadura. Once there, it will cover about two kilometers of this urban highway until it reaches the Plaza de Juan Carlos Argüello 'Muelle', where it will end. The associations have targeted the electoral commitment to bury the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, when "it has not started, it has not been budgeted for and, despite the numerous occasions in which the associations have Requested, no projects have been shared.” The improper use of the Paseo de Extremadura, an urban road, as a fast road is a continuous attack against the people residing in the district since it generates innumerable problems that make it difficult to live with dignity”, have argued the neighborhood associations of Latina, before recalling that more than 130,000 vehicles use it daily. It is estimated that "its bad smoke and noise affect more than 50,000 people residing in Lucero, Batán, Campamento, Aluche, Cuatro Vientos and Las Águilas, neighborhoods that it crosses and, like an o
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