/ world today news/ The solution to the problems with traffic and parking goes through the construction of parking lots and the qualitative improvement of public transport, said the deputy chairman of the “BSP for Bulgaria” group
With colleagues from the BSP group in SOS, we do not support the change and expansion of paid parking zones. Sofia cannot and should not turn into one big paid parking lot. This was stated to BNT by the deputy chairman of the “BSP for Bulgaria” group, Ivan Takov. He added that since all the expansion of paid parking zones, the air quality in Sofia has not improved, nor has the pressure of cars in the center decreased.
“The solution to the traffic and parking problems is through the construction of parking lots and the qualitative improvement of urban transport in the capital. The goal of the Urban Mobility Center was to use the money to build parking lots, but so far there are almost none,” he said, adding that the big question is not where the money goes, but what it is spent on.
“The ruling majority in the SOS proposes that more than 3/4 of the “green” zone become “blue”. This sounds to me only and only as an attempt to tie up the thinned revenues in transport”, comments Takov.
According to him, this solves some local problems, but they move from one neighborhood to another. “This happened some time ago with “Dolen Lozenets”, where, after the introduction of a zone, the problem was transferred to “Goren Lozenets”, he explained.
Regarding the proposal that 30% of the paid vignette stickers go to the investment program of the respective district to which it is paid, Takov stated that this money is not the main income of the CGM and it is much smaller compared to the funds that come from SMS and. “It is not the job of the Central Municipal Government to repair the sidewalks in Sofia, but of the Sofia municipality. Considering that it gives 400,000 BGN per district, this will be difficult to do,” said Ivan Takov.
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