In the capital, the rearranged yellow plates continue to move. “Save Sofia” warned for this. And they organized a protest demanding the resignation of Mayor Yordanka Fandakova.
The protest was entitled “#Danche, come down”. “Save Sofia” explains that the restoration of the emblematic yellow pavement is only an opportunity to ask for the resignation of the mayor and to highlight other reasons for his resignation. Among them – the poor condition of many streets and avenues of the capital, poorly done repairs, redevelopment, parking problems and dirty air. Yet discontent is building up over the seemingly failed repair of the yellow pavers.
They rearrange the yellow pavers at the contractor’s expense
The yellow pavers keep moving. This is most visible on Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., in the lane towards Sofia University.
“I read a joke, I think it is quite appropriate, that the yellow pavers are so shocked by the Fandakova renovation that they just want to leave this city,” said Boris Bonev of “Save Sofia”.
Unfortunately the pebbles are arranged in such a way that it is not at all difficult for everyone to take one as a souvenir.
Before the cobbles were rearranged, they were also a test for drivers. Even much healthier. The last time the tanks went through them was in 2019.
The municipality explains this with the fact that before the yellow paving became a cultural heritage, it was not possible to work only with sand, as it is today.
“And it is no coincidence that these are filled with bitumen and asphalt, with tar. Precisely because in these areas, where the load is greater, the problems have begun “, explained Eng. Angel Jorgov, Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Sofia.
Now the municipality is looking for solutions on how to arrange the stone slabs so that they do not “float” again, but also in accordance with the requirements of the Cultural Heritage Act.
“Such repairs were not carried out in Sofia. Perhaps a little more thought could have been done, but they will be repaired at the expense of the contractor according to a detail that is being worked on at the moment,” said engineer Jorgov.
“And who will pay the people of Sofia for the lost time suspended in traffic jams for the next repair after the repair?” Asks Boris Bonev.
According to the arch. Lyubo Georgiev of the “Sofia Team” is indisputable that paving pavers are a specific activity, but according to him the approach was already wrong during the design.
“For me and our team – the” Team Sofia “, however this is rather a symptom of a greater disease, I would call it the inability of the municipality to organize its processes, to know how to manage in a coordinated way, instead of putting out fires or save the everyday situation “, commented architect Lyubo Georgiev.
And while the 100-year-old paving stones are being rearranged in front of the National Assembly, there are about 2,000 square meters of new in stock.
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