Madrid municipal policy has these days A peculiar protagonist: the horses with which the police patrol through the park of The retirement. And for an even more strange reason: diapers. Perhaps both concepts seem little related to each other, but the PSOE has proposed to unite them and that the horses that walk through the emblematic garden of the capital must use a system that collects its feces.
They would not be The first.
Horses with diapers? Yes. The image is shocking (at least), but that is basically the idea that the PSOE Plan to carry today To the Municipal Board of Retirement: that the horses with which the police patrol the park use a system that retains their feces and prevent them from falling to the ground. In short, give them diapers.
“Avoid the presence of horse droppings in the park and its surroundings, stenores, bad image and unhealthiness,” argues The socialist group in the motion that will lead to this afternoon’s meeting.
“No one has stopped us”. The idea will be discussed during the plenary of the Municipal Board of the Retiro Districtbut the PP has already seen that it welcomes it with skepticism. For the delegate of Urbanism, Environment and Mobility, Borja Carabanteit is a “anecdote” and even took the opportunity to launch a small polish to socialist mayor.
“Madrid goes extraordinarily well because if the main problem that the city has for the left is whether the horses as they pass through the retirement carry diapers or not …” Ironized. “These are the things that the PSOE thinks.” To finish off, Carabante assures that anyone has stopped him through the streets to transfer him that horsepower in the park suppose “a real problem.
Criticism, but with nuances. Despite criticism and subtracting importance to the proposal (already expenses of what happens today in the Plenary), the delegate of Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility has advanced since the idea of the PSOE will not fall into a broken jacket. Carabante says that he will study the proposal with the cleaning services because, reason“At the end of what is a proposal so that the cleaning staff does not have to work collecting excrement.”
Shocking yes, but … novel? When arguing his proposal, the PSOE remembers that using systems to retain horses’ excrement, a kind of ‘equine diapers’, is not entirely new or something that has occurred to Madrid socialists. “This measure is already happening in other cities with quite successful”, claims In the motion.
Beyond Madrid. In Spain there are precedents. Years ago the City of Seville and the coachmen signed an agreement so that mid -2012 The latter added a “Excrement bag” to the horses that pull their calese. The idea was more or less the same: Incorporate a device between the rear rooms of the animals and the car itself to collect the stool.
Something similar can be seen in Other cities Spanish or even from the rest of Europe, such as London or Viennaespecially in cars for tourists. The goal is always the same: prevent horses from getting dirty the areas through which they pass. In The specific case From El Retiro, the focus is on the horses of the patrols, which would affect above all, Tele Madrid said yesterdayto those of the Municipal Police.
Images | JJ Merelo (Flickr) and Erik Cooper (Flickr)
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