I have a sensor for you – the farad

We have labeled occurrence and have discussed much: an agreement between the post office and the city of Santander opens the door to the postman, in his daily commute from the city to report incidents as illegally parked cars or garbage in the . streets, pointing them in their PDAs

The answer, of pure clear, it was immediate: they are functions assigned to other professionals of local public services such as the police

The idea started three wrong logic:

– Forget that the police, with more means postmen in Santander, is already on the street every day . The proposal would understand if the streets of Santander throughout the day there were more people devoted to public service (whose work, by the way, has been marred with this proposal is that perhaps are not doing their job? )

-Derivar own political responsibilities to other administrations . Competition in cleaning or parking is municipal, the City has own effective (or privatized, but that depend on them, after all) as the police or the garbage and it depends Correos State.

That is, are moving to another administration a few functions that are the responsibility of the City and for which already have resources and personnel.

The use of other administration is understand if the problem in the city out impossible to deal with the local media.

Or is there not a serious cleaning and disrespect for parking in the city that Santander can not address itself and that, If so, we are not being transferred to the taxpayers?

And the last logic, largely beating the Santander politics, the trend has been for decades in Cantabria all parties and finally, gradually, the real logic has finally bury: policy sell what you do not have while neglecting what we do have

This is the logical (sic) that lies beneath the idea of ​​expanding the powers of the postmen rather than seek to improve a service that does not work well at 100%, or to sell a Booty Center or a file that are still there.

And it does not fit with the Smart project, based on the collection of city data through sensors to enable management to make better decisions, not sending complaints and incidents on specific issues through technological devices.

And above all, when it comes to sell the project, he appealed to arguments from authority, the existence of a similar project in Malaga which, according to today Alvaro Machin in the Mountain Newspaper It is not the same

Malaga carts carry a device that measures air quality. And

First was that Correos said it was similar, but then in the answers to the (logical, reasonable and, of course, on your right) Reviews opposition and trade unions, the government team, with his habitual Automatic disqualification and generally anyone who bo shares his opinion, even said that the project had a “remarkable success” in Malaga.

And the project in Malaga is different. There the sensors are placed in postmen vehicles so that they do something very reasonable: use their daily routes to inspect the city amortizing the trip without extra effort or interfere in their work

But are not required an active role. . registration of incidents that no one would have thought pose to letter carriers over other professionals who themselves enter them in their competences

So now what we need we are clear: it has been a mistake the allusion to Malaga or we’ve been lied to? If we have lied, why they have done something that was so easy to check? So what more exaggerations are telling us and we are swallowed in the city that is always “head”, “on the map”, “on top of”, “leading an international pioneer project”?

Not that we fiáramos much, but … we have to put under the microscope and dig in every initiative that comes our way, however jam it, to know if our institutions, with the money our property tax, water and fines are doing the minimum that is the truth?

It may not be a lie. The lie is a conscious act, it is done on purpose. And in Santander it has succumbed to the logic of computer graphics to an end in some and just live in this perfect city that has no neighbors and quejándonse institutions (I, II, III) and does not need any improvement.