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Thursday, April 8th, 2021
Reschitza – The project department of the Reschitza town hall currently has the order to find the financing for the construction of two parking garages, which are to be built by the city in the medium term. One for around 400 vehicles on ILCaragiale-Strasse, which surrounds the city and administrative center, the other in the Stawilla district, where at least as many vehicles are to be parked, while users take ten electric buses to the winter sports and leisure centers on Semenik become.
At one of his regular press conferences, Mayor Ioan Popa (PNL) addressed the need for both car parks: “Between the location of the Romanian commercial bank BCR-Erste and the shop for handicrafts ‘Diamant’ we need a multi-storey Park & Ride car park for at least 400 vehicles . The project for this is ready. We applied to the ADR Vest development agency for funding. The second multi-storey car park in this manner – this building draft is also in progress – has to be built in the Stawilla district in the Upper Old Town. This car park will surely get EU funding. From there, ten electric buses continue to secure traffic to the mountains. With this we cut the vehicle pressure from the direction of Reschitza on the mountain roads and the few parking spaces for which there is space up there. We have to get the snappers used to using public transport when they want to spend weekends or holidays in the mountains. “
Mayor Popa raised the question of building a parking garage in the narrow valley town of Reschitza two and a half years ago. At that time, the spatial plan for the uphill district of Stawilla was in progress (“stavilă” = weir – in this district the Bersau was dammed by means of a weir in order to “fish” the alluvial wood from the blows in the primeval forests of the Semenik from the water a “rake” = “Grebla” – the current name of the neighboring district).
Popa only recently expressed the idea of the parking garage on the edge of the city and administrative center when the city decided to privatize the parking spaces – which are now generating revenues of 10,000-12,000 lei per day. The multi-storey car parks will of course also be built as paid parking spaces and, according to the city council resolution, the proceeds will be used exclusively for the renovation and maintenance of the existing parking spaces for the time being.
If the financing of the parking garage in the Stawilla is considered to be secure (here questions of environmental protection and the avoidance of excessive carbon emissions predominate), the financing of the parking garage in the city center is less secure. But the mayor was determined at the press conference to enforce it, “if need be, by taking out a loan!”
Popa: “At the moment we have two options: if the ADR says ‘okay, you are eligible’, we will continue with the feasibility study, which is ready. Then the money can come soon. In that case I say: the parking garage will be built in 2022. But if there are problems with the financing, I do not rule out taking out a long-term loan – 15-20 years. Then the loan has to be repaid to a large extent from the income from the parking garage, so a solid study of economic efficiency is required. If we have the parking garage, we will turn the small bypass around the main square into a pedestrian zone. Residents can then use the multi-storey car park across the street for a moderate annual parking fee. For everyone’s attention: 80 percent of the plots where the parking garages will be located are already owned by the city! “
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