Colombia is the country famous for having public mechanical stairs in more mountainous urban areas. Now Vigo’s mayor, Abel Caballero, has started to copy this idea for the notoriously hilly city he governs.
I had no clue what the public works in Gran Via were, but apparently is one huge set of magic carpets to go all the way from Urzais to Nicaragua. That’s 43m of elevation over 500m.
There’s also a new bicycle path on Venezuela... Which was actually used a lot. Mayor Caballero is the president of the Spanish association for municipalities, a professor of economics, and in general sort of like a more moderate Spanish Bernie Sanders. He’s 76, and a former member of the Spanish Communist Party. Now he governs one of the largest cities of the overall conservative province of galicia.