Sagrada Familia Scaffolding Collapse Injures Tourists, and All I See Is a Temple to Progressive Overreach.
I’m a born-and-raised Barcelona local, and I’m absolutely fuming. It was only a matter of time—common sense told us this would happen. The scaffolding on the Sagrada Familia finally gave way yesterday, injuring three tourists. The headlines will tell you it was a "freak accident," but it’s not. We were told the tower cranes needed replacing a year ago, and the "experts" kept pushing back the completion date for decades.
Meanwhile, the city council pours millions into this glorified sandcastle of modernism while our actual working-class neighborhoods crumble. Tourists love gawking at the spires, but they aren't the ones who have to dodge falling debris when walking their kids to school. Maybe if we stopped worshipping a dead architect’s ego and fixed the potholes and leaky drainage pipes first, we'd save some lives.
When will the higher-ups admit Gaudi’s masterpiece is a money pit and just tear down the scaffolding for good?