A story from inside the car to the chaotic entrance to the road to Madrid from the great Blackout
The sun looks clean, dressed with only a few skirts that are a sigh of harmless clouds, a spring sun, intense but not murderous, which contrasts with a city, Madrid, outside and, this Monday, extraordinarily chaotic. On a normal day, despite the characteristic capital trafficking, it does not hardly take to cover the journey between the city of Pozuelo de Alarcón and the Argüelles neighborhood for about 15 or 20 minutes. Today, those who left this opulent common at 14:00 will not be able to reach the historic area of Madrid until 17.30.
The feeling is identical to which a traveler suffers during a return operation or a great snowfall that surprises him on the highway. The vehicles barely advance by six or seven meters every four or five minutes. The big difference is that those who find themselves cannot write to his wife to let him know that they are in a traffic jam or call a friend with whom to kill the tedium produced by the asphalt. Also, those who are definitely They have not known anything about his wife or that time friend. Neither of their children, who have to collect from school or their mothers, who today have had an appointment with the cardiologist.
Communications do not work, the DGT must act blindly because the cameras that control the main access to the city do not work. How can it, Police cars try to overcome the long lines of vehicles in the M-40 With the aim of putting order in chaos. The soundtrack of this afternoon in Madrid is the sirens and only the sound of the radio presenter, who today has shown again because it is immortal, prevents the citizen from suggesting from the sound of ambulances that ask for the road and the pulsations increase.
Entrance to West Park offers a contrast stamp. Several people with the naked bust observe the row of cars on the road during the sun from the grass. On the right, on a dirt road, a transport truck rests from a sofa shop. His driver positions a sign on the left window: “without petrol. Call 622 …”. A cigar is eliminated, illuminates him and, resigned, begins in the direction of Pintor Rosales. Later, a mimetic police car leaves the row and begins to get up from that dirt road causing a fog of dust that coughs a young man who wears sportswear.
There are many who use any hole on the road to park their vehicle in a non -orthodox way and continue the road on foot in front of the poor hope that traffic will be accelerated. Others, to whom the largest moment of chaos has captured them in some taxis or VTC, They pay the race and get off the vehicle in the middle of the road. Some pedestrians observe the situation and outline half a smile that is more perplexity so that this huge national blackout has caused that of voluptuousness on the face of the tiredness that observes in the drivers.
Along the tour of Princesa and Alberto Aguilera Street, several citizens, with crossed weapons, are waiting for in the tent on a bus that does not arrive and that, if he does, is full of people. Already in the capital, the police try to regulate traffic in its main arteries. However, there are roads and roads that do not reach and in which, therefore, pedestrians must bet on the generosity of the drivers, who, since the traffic lights are unusable, reduce the speed to the arrival at the crossroads of Zebra. There is some fearLike a young man who, among the protests, must stop in the middle of the crossing because a taxi driver leads to a reckless speed for the situation that is lived and does not surrender.
The stamp along the different roads of Madrid is similar: the terraces are crowded with people who take a soda in the sun as they comment on what happens, Several couples bring bags with food inside after visiting custody supermarkets And entire families of some colonies in Madrid, such as those located in the areas of Serrano and Concha Espina, enter their vehicle to load the mobile phone and listen to the radio.
There have been almost ten hours of uncertainty and chaos in the capital that ended with an unexpected ignition around 22:00 accompanied by Eco di Eco The celebration and applause Of those who, neighborhood in the neighborhood, have seen how electricity has enlightened their homes again as they dine in the light of the candles.
