“If you go through Puerta del Sol, wear hiking boots”. This is how a tweeter sums up the situation encountered by the people of Madrid in the central square of the capital after his reopening for Christmas. Opposition and citizens have asked the mayor for explanations and have denounced the state in which pedestrians have found it, many with videos and photos.
Eh, @AlmeidaPP_. The flag in Plaza España is great. Now, the quagmire in La Puerta del Sol has left you painted. pic.twitter.com/Pgzr5mrMH3
— Jash Moody (@Jashmoody) December 2, 2022
The new benches in Puerta del Sol after it rained because no one has thought of placing them with a slope so that it drains.
Cheats by Martínez Asfalto Almeida. pic.twitter.com/c5SLZQC1iP
— Fíjatetu_ ???????? (@fijatetu_) December 4, 2022
The truth is that it is a curious picture for the center of the capital at the height of Christmas.
Madrileño walking through the Puerta del Sol. pic.twitter.com/Azppfhwyhh
— Silly, I’m going to buy you a bag of sweets. (@AbreCesar23) December 5, 2022
Rita Masters criticized that it has reopened “with the cement still fresh and the work unfinished”???????? Posteriorly, Almeida pointed out that it is not about cement but about “dry mortar” and accused Maestre of “spreading hoaxes”.
Open Sol with the cement still fresh and the work unfinished.
A new feat of Almeida’s sloppy management. https://t.co/GKXOhoqRLP— Rita Masters ???? (@Rita_Maestre) December 4, 2022
What a stupid argument to defend Atásquez that the mud he has set up in Puerta del Sol is not made of cement but of mortar.
-Who has put a bunch of dog shit on top of my computer keyboard?
-It’s not dog shit, whiner; it’s person poop.— Mauro Entrialgo (@Tyrexito) December 4, 2022
The mayor has also said that he already warned two weeks ago that there would be 10% of the Puerta del Sol with dry mortar in the reopening of the bridge in December. Ah well, if he warned…
This year’s chimes at the Puerta del Sol in Atásquez pic.twitter.com/l57Zujxiaq
— Mauro Entrialgo (@Tyrexito) December 3, 2022
However, his explanations have not convinced the tweeters who have analyzed Almeida’s latest in their own way.
I will never forgive you, Carmena. https://t.co/aEiRX5Xubl
— Jesus Ruiz ???????????? (@Jesus_RuizM) December 4, 2022
What a botch. The entire Puerta del Sol bogged down by works that are as expensive as they are unnecessary. Almeida and Ayuso are going to give us Christmas 2022. pic.twitter.com/RAPzZNfEiw
— Félix López-Rey ???? (@FelixLopez_Rey) November 21, 2022
You have to have a cement face to put mortar in Puerta del Sol.
— CELESSON (@chemapizca) December 5, 2022
Puerta del Sol right now: https://t.co/0KC8nWMbbW pic.twitter.com/1ISu6HAmLN
— Le Cuerpe (@lecuerpe) December 4, 2022
Managing. pic.twitter.com/I4XiHs7g7d
— cow poop (@absurdheces) December 4, 2022
Promotional campaign: In Madrid, if you go to see the Christmas tree, you get the mold of the sole of your shoes as a gift ????????????
— ???????????? Cristina (@cristinaguerr22) December 4, 2022
“How nice it is to walk through the Puerta del Sol at Christmas”.
The door of the sun: pic.twitter.com/rEIuDmvL4n— Alberto López (@alberto2) December 4, 2022
If you go to the center of Madrid this bridge wrap up warm, use public transport and put on cement boots in case you go through Puerta del Sol.
— Mónica García (@Monica_Garcia_G) December 4, 2022
The zero kilometer of filth
— SpaceCake (@Antonio17585798) December 4, 2022
If you go through Puerta del Sol, wear hiking boots. There is no mountain but tiles either. https://t.co/G947IijQn8
– Jose Maria Contreras (@frascuelo5) December 4, 2022
Almeida’s unmitigated disaster. Every week a new botch while our streets have more shit and traffic jams every day.
The worst mayor we have ever had in a democracy, without a doubt. https://t.co/oegkYVHHj7
— Hugo Martínez Abarca ???? ???????????? (@hugomabarca) December 4, 2022
Take a walk through the Puerta del Sol pic.twitter.com/32qwEkIDbz
— ???????????????????????? (@Albert_Edero) December 4, 2022
It would have been curious and very instructive to see what some would have said if this had happened in the Carmen era when everything the City Council did was communism and when some media came to describe as “hell” the works of the Gran Vía.