Spain takes to the streets

There are moments that are never forgotten. To anyone who I asked him why was he doing or where was he 9/11, 11-M or the day what we won the World Cup He will know how to answer you, he will even be able to tell some details. Those same people are likely incapable to remember lor what they ate yesterday. The night in which the Selection defeated Germany in the semifinals of the World Cup it may not have had the historical strength of the title, but it was a great prelude of what would happen five days later: millions of Spaniards They threw themselves on the street to celebrate the qualification of the Selection to the final of the soccer World Cup for the first time in history. As to forget.

In a few minutes, the streets deserted were filled with thousands of people during two hours they had emptied the public roads to see the meeting in a house or a bar. In Madrid, for example, traffic was reduced in the city ​​center in a 48 percent during the meeting and a 54 percent on the M-30. He Meter of the capital, used by two million people on any working day, decreased its occupation by 22.5 percent from 8:30 p.m., as happened with urban buses, which registered a occupation decrease between 15 and 20 percent.

Until calls at the service of emergencies 112 (which brings together incidents due to accidents, firefighting or hospital emergencies) were a 19 percent lower than the weekly average. They attended 924 notices (for the 1,145 that were posted daily in July 2010). He country was paralyzed.

Quite the opposite that at party term. It was then that a red tide flooded the main arteries of each city. In Madrid fans bathed in Sol and other sources being Colón and Cibeles guarded. 37,500 kilos of garbage were collected more than any other day. It is the mark left by a feat … Spain was in the final.