It is no longer just parking on the streets where, duly marked with visible signs, you can read Parking prohibited, the clumsy mania of double parking is not new either, removing 50% chances of traveling through the narrow streets of downtown Santa Cruz of the Sierra. Added to this outrage is the lack of respect for traffic lights that are adorned and crossing to the left, preferably by the “owners” of the city who, without looking where or who is coming from, throw themselves into the most convulsive illegality. The alienation of the old town is such that this bland behavior is admitted in silence, that things are like that because of culture, style or just because they want to. The systematic violation of regulations and driver’s education are twinned with the legitimacy that the most clueless driver reconfirms every day. Punctuality, solidarity, hospitality and respect for the other, intrinsic values of being from Santa Cruz, are not glimpsed, felt, or perceived there in the heart of the city, in the most camba nerve of the city, in the most nerve center of the eastern capital. When was the city center left to be raffled off for a lost fund? Since when was an emblematic site abandoned to be an example of a national disaster?
The Municipal Department of Transit and Transportation, on its website says: that its objectives are to offer the community the right to mobility in all its forms of displacement, seeking to create sustainable and safe urban mobility for the city of Santa Cruz de la Saw. Well, none of that is fulfilled, rather the opposite. Neither controls, nor cranes, nor educational personnel, nor campaigns, nor presence, nor any authority. It is a “Save whoever can” and if not, take a tour of the historic streets to experience firsthand what thousands of people suffer every day when they have to visit it. And if the incompetent version of ‘you can’t’ continue, it will be a profitable opportunity for good organized citizens to do the work that the municipality does not do, otherwise they will have forgotten the idea of claiming what is theirs and belongs.
