Seeing a solitary billboard in the street encourages suspicion, if the voyeur is doubled as an observer. I am referring to the gray metal fence, not the yellow ones nor the red plastic ones. The gray metal fence is that of the Barcelona City Council, information that is incorporated and clearly visible.
If curiosity leads to a somewhat systematic tour of the lower part of the Dreta de l'Eixample, the information collected allows us to assert that there are quite a few abandoned billboards everywhere. It is not an improvised quantity to affirm that they add up to about forty.
And they are not recent dropouts, as some have completed many more months than is worth it. The present date is ideal to provide a global balance as it is not linked to any of the frequent athletic competitions that run through the area; it is then when the itinerary is protected with a substantial distribution of fences. Nor has it to do with the cut caused by demonstrations or something like that, since the Urban Police usually carry it out by crossing their vehicles, be they cars or motorcycles, in the center of the road.
The blatant example of an ostensible abandoned fence is the one located for too long in the wide surroundings of a very prominent school, which has been delimited with care and taste to relax and protect that large space: gates, flower boxes, benches and painted asphalt. , all this deep in what was roadway.
What mission does that lost fence have in such a place? It only serves to make ugly and, of course, highlight the negligence of the person responsible: the company subcontracted by the City Council.
The pernicious effect is aggravated by discovering fences in bicycle and motorbike parking lots, or placed in such a way that they hinder and even make walking on the sidewalk difficult, and there is no shortage of those lying down, those next to a pedestrian crossing, those wedged in unbalanced in a tree hole...
I avoid locating in detail that panorama that supposes a scandalous neglect. And it is that the extensive and boring list would annoy the reader; I do not intend to relieve work for a company that systematically fails to meet its obligations. Hence, he has also avoided specifying the exact address that the photograph denounces, that of the camper who is protected by a fence.
It will be interesting to see what the result will be in this sensitive time, because it is electoral.
