We are thirty or forty this morning to check the sounds produced at the building site.
Our goal is to measure the noise decibels produced by the machines, from early morning to sunset, and ask for respect of the existing rules.
For this reason we are joined by the leaders of the city council parties Vicenza Libera and Variati Sindaco. But, as the inspection progresses we realize that we must better adjust our target: in fact it isn’t what you hear, but rather what you see that’s most offensive.
The construction site appears ever more like a large cemetery where hundreds of trees uprooted from the ground are now lying in big piles while, at the same time, hundreds of poles are forced one by one into the ground. It’s really an indecent show: big trees, full of branches are knocked down on one side while hundreds of cement poles are planted on the other side !
We realize the absurdity of the situation and the photos of this slaughter are proof even to those not present, that this macabre dance of machines grounding the debris to build a new military base, the creepy sound of the pile drivers powerfully pushing the poles into the earth replacing the trees that once covered it, cannot bring anything positive. Someone might say: “For whom does the pile driver toll ? It also tolls for thee, deaf and indifferent citizen”.
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