Buenos Aires’ street furniture is slated for a long-awaited overhaul. Starting immediately from the city’s more affluent east and slowly expanding westward, throughout the next 10 months, thousands of bus shelters (
refugios de colectivos), street signs, signposts, and ad displays will be replaced with newer, clearer, more modern, and more vandalism-proof versions. This process was actually supposed to start way back in 2001, but was repeatedly delayed due to funding uncertainty, judicial objections, and other equally legitimate-sounding causes. Separately, in a further beaufitication effort, the city has scheduled the planting of more than 5,000 trees in June and July.
