Three Years Insulated without Subway and with Traffic Jams in the City of Madrid Where Trains Devour Houses

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A drama can hide a problem. It happens in San Fernando de Henares, a municipality of 40,000 inhabitants of the Community of Madrid. There, 73 houses have been demolished because the arrival of the metro to the municipality, in 2007, changed the composition of the subsoil and caused them to lose their feet, filling them with cracks like the other 260 that are now under surveillance. That are hundreds of broken lives. Memories lost among the rubbl…