A possible synthesis of the public hearing that occurred Thursday last (2) in the São Paulo City Council is this speech of Márcia Cunha, voluntary counselor of the White Water Park: “Park is not real estate business. Park is not shopping. Park is not parking. Park is park”.
Only the prophets see the obvious, the playwright said, and perhaps it is even necessary to retreat to the very basic to describe what is happening in the public parks of the capital since the granting of his management to private initiative, object of the hearing convened by Councilwoman Renata Falzoni (PSB).
Context: Before that, to clean land, the House approved a project of former Mayor João Doria who included the cancellation of the right to vote of civil society representatives in the managing councils of the parks. Like Marcia.
With the concession came the closed events and the interdiction of spaces; thick advertising; the increase in prices (tickets and/or food marketed there); The noise of shows and parties that frightens the fauna; the waterproofing. Good bathrooms came in Ibirapuera, but not the end of the bike theft epidemic.
An example among so many: in a year under Urbia’s management, the Pedra Grande nucleus of Cantareira State Park had its entrance increased by 163%. Today the whole costs $ 60.
The distortion of the main purpose of a public park, which is to serve as a leisure and well-being area for residents of the city, should not be the counterpart for conservation and the increase of these devices.
A Sheet It has shown that it has never been invested so much in resurfacing in recent decades in the city of São Paulo, R $ 4 billion only in 2023. Given this, the cost of maintenance of Ibirapuera Park before concession, about R $ 29 mi annual (excluded museums and other cultural own), 0.7% of that, seems bearable.
Investing in asphalt, by the way, is a strange priority at a time when cities like Paris become less carocentric to increasing bike paths and afforestation, a providence that helps face climate apocalypse that already causes extreme events and formation of heat islands in metropolises.
It seems that St. Paul also suffers from this.
Ultimately, the vote legitimizes the actions of the elected. But it is up to a society that has many instruments of information and manifestation not to face the outcome of the election as that hit of ABBA “The Winner Takes It All”.
If anyone has any explanation of why the overwhelming majority of the population of Sao Paulo and neighboring cities can never put their feet into the Cantareira Park-explicit translation of what a ticket to R $ 60-by fineness, declines it here.
For the sake of the good journalistic proceeding, it should be noted that Urbia has already said to Sheet which has “contractual law” of collection and updating the value of tickets and invests in improvements and the infrastructure of Parque da Cantareira.
Its director, Samuel Lloyd, was the only representative of the concessionaires to accept Falzoni’s invitation to the hearing in the City Council. It was praised for that.
Lloyd liked it when a delivery, bike delivery, David Anastácio, asked at the audience a “Oxxo or a Carrefour Express” in Ibirapuera, because so people “broken” like David, could also consume something in the park.
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