I don’t live in Mexico City anymore so I can’t say whether Mayor Marcelo Ebrard is really good for the city, but what does seem evident is that he’s made the most visible changes in the metropolis than any other recent mayor. Case in point: turning the country’s “kilómetro cero” — the iconic Zocalo main plaza in the city’s historic downtown — into a massive ice skating rink.

While in another time this would sound crazy to the average Mexico City citizen, it doesn’t sound that strange coming from a mayor who installed a series of artificial beaches throughout the city over the summer, and, in the months of lead-up to his latest project — the ice rink — permanently ridded Mexico City’s Centro Histórico of the street peddlers who have worked in that area for hundreds of years (I have very mixed feelings about that one).

Shocking or not, La Jornada reports that over 50,000 people turned out this weekend to check out the urban ice spectacle, with a few minor injuries already reported.

Via / La Jornada

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