Jordi Gómez
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Total cost is 100M€, length around 700m, made easy because the street reaches the point below grade: www.eldiario.es/madrid/somos... I'd also clarify that Madrid has plenty of ring highways, one of them crossing the city close to center, so this is just burying an overly car oriented boulevard
Las obras de Parque Castellana arrancan el 1 de julio con mejoras y un presupuesto que sube a 110 millones de euros
El carril bici discurrirá por el flanco este y se plantarán 787 nuevos árboles, además de ampliar las cubiertas verdes en las rampas de acceso. Los juegos infantiles y los equipamientos deportivos tam...
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December 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Total cost is 100M€, length around 700m, made easy because the street reaches the point below grade: www.eldiario.es/madrid/somos... I'd also clarify that Madrid has plenty of ring highways, one of them crossing the city close to center, so this is just burying an overly car oriented boulevard
Must be also a merit of the person who can be useful to the city regardless of circumstance. Like here we have the engineer-politician that is given positions from governments of all colors "because he's the one who knows about transit": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pere_Ma...
Pere Macias - Wikipedia
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December 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Must be also a merit of the person who can be useful to the city regardless of circumstance. Like here we have the engineer-politician that is given positions from governments of all colors "because he's the one who knows about transit": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pere_Ma...
Spain too, and the hardest part of the process is figuring out how to login. Since I got the digital certificate some years ago, so much bureaucracy got so much easier, but I think a lot of people still don't have one.
December 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Spain too, and the hardest part of the process is figuring out how to login. Since I got the digital certificate some years ago, so much bureaucracy got so much easier, but I think a lot of people still don't have one.
What's wrong with tacky megachurches? Everybody comes to see the Sagrada Família.
December 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
What's wrong with tacky megachurches? Everybody comes to see the Sagrada Família.
When I got babies I thought that would be the time my car would come in handy, and... No. Because my city has lifts in over 90% of stations it's still the most convenient way. But boy I missed those lifts when we visited Madrid.
December 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
When I got babies I thought that would be the time my car would come in handy, and... No. Because my city has lifts in over 90% of stations it's still the most convenient way. But boy I missed those lifts when we visited Madrid.
My European city requires tapping in all legs of a trip with transfers using a pass. I haven't seen fare checking inside the bus for the last 10 or 15 years. I guess the system holds out of social peer pressure, or...
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
My European city requires tapping in all legs of a trip with transfers using a pass. I haven't seen fare checking inside the bus for the last 10 or 15 years. I guess the system holds out of social peer pressure, or...
The other day I had to overhear a conversation between two men joking how "Atocha's Sala Club" is a joke because there was a queue to go in, it sounded like they needed to feel superior to the average peasant even when taking the high speed train.
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The other day I had to overhear a conversation between two men joking how "Atocha's Sala Club" is a joke because there was a queue to go in, it sounded like they needed to feel superior to the average peasant even when taking the high speed train.
Maybe because most my career has been around development, service or product management, I find there's a lot of common ground with other disciplines like operations, communication, documentation, that is not taught in curricula and it should.
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Maybe because most my career has been around development, service or product management, I find there's a lot of common ground with other disciplines like operations, communication, documentation, that is not taught in curricula and it should.
My degree is in Computer Science and TBH the use of algebra is very low. I'm appalled at the low familiarity of people with boolean algebra instead. Actually, 50% of IT work is the IT itself, the other 50% is understanding the business you're supporting.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My degree is in Computer Science and TBH the use of algebra is very low. I'm appalled at the low familiarity of people with boolean algebra instead. Actually, 50% of IT work is the IT itself, the other 50% is understanding the business you're supporting.
In the democratic monarchy of Spain, it took like 30 years for the jesters to dare mocking the king
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
In the democratic monarchy of Spain, it took like 30 years for the jesters to dare mocking the king
La de Reus sembla que no és un tema gaire clar. La de Girona, molt lògica, donat que la majoria de vols al Prat no són de connexió: www.modernetdigital.cat/articulo/fin...
La Generalitat anuncia una estació d’AVE a l’aeroport de Reus... que no existeix (encara)
Una roda de premsa, tres paraules mal triades i mitja Catalunya creient-se que tindrà una nova estació d’AVE tocant a l’aeroport de Reus. Territori va anunciar el que ni AENA ni Déu sabien: una parada...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
La de Reus sembla que no és un tema gaire clar. La de Girona, molt lògica, donat que la majoria de vols al Prat no són de connexió: www.modernetdigital.cat/articulo/fin...
In IT we say there's two hard things: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
In IT we say there's two hard things: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors
pedestrianobservations.com/2023/02/12/q... frequent like... Metro-like frequent
Quick Note: Catalunya Station
Barcelona’s commuter rail network has a few distinct components. In addition to the main through-running sections, there are some captive lines terminating at one of two stations, Espanya and…
pedestrianobservations.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
pedestrianobservations.com/2023/02/12/q... frequent like... Metro-like frequent
We do have super frequent not so fast trains to the other side of the mountains, run by catalan government, and they work well. Renfe is a disaster of reliability in the other corridors.
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We do have super frequent not so fast trains to the other side of the mountains, run by catalan government, and they work well. Renfe is a disaster of reliability in the other corridors.
From what I hear, in the US there's normally plenty of space, but it's used with very low densities. Barcelona is more like of a New York in this sense, I wonder how much "the same" are the problems there?
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
From what I hear, in the US there's normally plenty of space, but it's used with very low densities. Barcelona is more like of a New York in this sense, I wonder how much "the same" are the problems there?
Just because you own a plot it doesn't mean you can build in it, or build as many homes as you want. Local governments have zoning rules to say what you can legally do with your plot. And in Barcelona municipality, almost everything with zoning to build is already built.
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Just because you own a plot it doesn't mean you can build in it, or build as many homes as you want. Local governments have zoning rules to say what you can legally do with your plot. And in Barcelona municipality, almost everything with zoning to build is already built.
Context: in Barcelona the land cost is higher than construction cost: itec.cat/wp-content/u... -> being allowed to build is a big money gift -> experience showed that arbitrarily giving these gifts was very corrupt -> I don't see we found a systematic and fair non-corrupt way to do this
itec.cat
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Context: in Barcelona the land cost is higher than construction cost: itec.cat/wp-content/u... -> being allowed to build is a big money gift -> experience showed that arbitrarily giving these gifts was very corrupt -> I don't see we found a systematic and fair non-corrupt way to do this
Doesn't even need to be something old. "The only thing that stands out" also works: www.atlasobscura.com/places/tres-...
Tres Xemeneies (Three Chimneys)
The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Doesn't even need to be something old. "The only thing that stands out" also works: www.atlasobscura.com/places/tres-...
That's why my amateur hypothesis are 1- Aversion to the pelotazo (why should you get crazy rich purely on my zoning decision?) 2- Snobbish urbanism (Bellvitge is ugly! The remuntes were ugly! We need more green space! Well, the last one has a point) 3- Solution scalability
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
That's why my amateur hypothesis are 1- Aversion to the pelotazo (why should you get crazy rich purely on my zoning decision?) 2- Snobbish urbanism (Bellvitge is ugly! The remuntes were ugly! We need more green space! Well, the last one has a point) 3- Solution scalability
The brownfield in La Mercedes will bring 1450 homes, which at 2,5 hab/home brings 40k hab/km², I think only in Barcelona this is "low density": beteve.cat/societat/nov...
La nova Mercedes-Benz de Barcelona guanya el premi WAFX al millor projecte de regeneració d'espais
El projecte de transformació de l'antiga fàbrica Mercedes-Benz, al Bon Pastor, ha estat el guanyador del premi WAFX al millor projecte de regeneració d'espais.
beteve.cat
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The brownfield in La Mercedes will bring 1450 homes, which at 2,5 hab/home brings 40k hab/km², I think only in Barcelona this is "low density": beteve.cat/societat/nov...
I agree with part of the point, but going above the 11 floors was probably expensive. Gotta say it gave us the ridiculous show of the big celebration of offering 238 affordable units in a lottery with 11234 applicants.
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I agree with part of the point, but going above the 11 floors was probably expensive. Gotta say it gave us the ridiculous show of the big celebration of offering 238 affordable units in a lottery with 11234 applicants.
It explains that the city hall can do nothing about it because all the potential space is in the metro area, and (I think) still would involve relevant density to work at scale. Renfe's mess with suburban trains doesn't help either.
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It explains that the city hall can do nothing about it because all the potential space is in the metro area, and (I think) still would involve relevant density to work at scale. Renfe's mess with suburban trains doesn't help either.
Yes, and my explanation is that this is a purely political problem. Fighting the laws of offer and demand is stupid and desperate, but removing the 30% doesn't make private companies invent TARDIS technology. Both right and left wing proposals are pure electoral exploiting of voter prejudice.
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Yes, and my explanation is that this is a purely political problem. Fighting the laws of offer and demand is stupid and desperate, but removing the 30% doesn't make private companies invent TARDIS technology. Both right and left wing proposals are pure electoral exploiting of voter prejudice.
@4freedoms.es will know better, but the 30% is not the solution, nor problem, as it's not the tourism or the market. This is a pure problem of land not being legally available. Governments don't want to award "pelotazos" but don't seem to find any alternate way to build.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
@4freedoms.es will know better, but the 30% is not the solution, nor problem, as it's not the tourism or the market. This is a pure problem of land not being legally available. Governments don't want to award "pelotazos" but don't seem to find any alternate way to build.
Couldn't see the video, but maybe worth mentioning that the biggest football stadium in Europe is just a few hundred meters away from the most densely populated square km in Europe
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Couldn't see the video, but maybe worth mentioning that the biggest football stadium in Europe is just a few hundred meters away from the most densely populated square km in Europe