Barcelona's Eixample is finally free from New Jersey

It has taken longer than necessary, but it can finally be said that Barcelona has gotten rid of the New Jersey, at least the concrete blocks and temporary elements of the exceptional terraces that were installed on the road to compensate for the economic damage.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
28 December 2023 Thursday 15:23
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Barcelona's Eixample is finally free from New Jersey

It has taken longer than necessary, but it can finally be said that Barcelona has gotten rid of the New Jersey, at least the concrete blocks and temporary elements of the exceptional terraces that were installed on the road to compensate for the economic damage. What Covid did to restaurant businesses. The completion of the operation outside New Jersey has been completed with the withdrawal of the last 25 that remained in Eixample, an action that the municipal government of Mayor Jaume Collboni has framed in Pla Endreça.

The Eixample councilor, Jordi Valls, explained that now all the terraces that remain on the road are legalized and are in the process of normal control and inspection. Valls added that, beyond two slopes that remain in the city with concrete blocks on the road, Barcelona has already removed the 3,000 New Jersey that it accumulated on these provisional terraces during the pandemic period.

The last 25 recently withdrawn correspond to cases in which the owners of bars and restaurants had filed appeals against the obligation to eliminate exceptional terraces. When the decision was final, the concrete blocks and surviving bollards that still remained on Rosselló, Bailèn, Floridablanca, Provença, Sepúlveda, Trafalgar, Enric Granados, Sardenya and Provença streets and Mistral avenues were removed. i Parallel·lel.

In Eixample, the covid terraces that have received permission to consolidate into approved road platforms are 346, while 622 have been denied for not complying with the requirements of the ordinance. There are 2,277 authorized terraces in the district, which add up to 8,837 tables and 34,170 chairs.