Pristina municipality builds new square '%Ska plan for columns

The capital is soon expected to add a new square, which is set to take place from the Hotel “Gradi” to “Cathedralja”, but the closure of road circulation bearing the name” George Bush” is viewed as the wrong decision that will add even more to the traffic mess.

Although tests to see the impact of closing this road in road traffic have begun long ago, the Pristina municipality still has no concrete plans on when the work starts and what this square will look like.

Pristina municipality spokesman Adonis Tahiri for Kosova Prees has said that tests will take place even during working days, while this expansion of the square will also be enriched with recreative spaces.

Tahiri: We're testing how this square will affect traffic.

We've been testing one Sunday before so we can see if we're going to have a traffic problem or not, and that day it's going very well. Otherwise, we will continue to test it on Sundays and other Saturdays, so that we can have more clearly what the impact of that square will be on road traffic in Pristina. It is important to note that the municipality has envisioned that in addition to extending the central square to the traffic lights, the cathedral in that section should also have small recreative spaces”, Tahiri has declared.

But the connoisseur of road traffic issues, Muhamed Krasniqi, has been advising that a proper planning for the flow of vehicles first be made, because blocking this road could cause major difficulties in traffic.

According to him, in order for tests to close the path “George Bush” to show the real effect, they must take place during the days when there is greater flow of vehicles.

Krasniqi: A road flow plan should be made for this mall

The expansion of this city mall must first become a plan, a subtle circulation analysis, and vehicle movement. The city of Pristina is also heavily packed and overloaded and there is an influx of vehicles almost all the time periods within working days, and the creation and expansion of the square will normally create great difficulties in the flow of vehicles ... Before the start of the construction or before the stop of vehicles must create alternative solutions and an exact and based plan should be developed, existing crossroads and other existing spaces where this flow of the” vehicles could be made and guided, Krasni said.

Road traffic expert also says it is extremely important that before the start of the construction of this square, movement for emergency cases can be introduced.

That expanding the square via “George Bush” will cause traffic and says even the Pristina municipal Assembly assist from the LDK ranks, Fiknet Bata.

Bayta for Kosovo Pres has said that for this municipal decision, the municipality has not taken the opinion of the opposition, since such a decision has not come to the Municipal Assembly in Pristina at all.

Bata: Building this square could cause even more blockades in Pristina traffic

We've heard this news from the media because there hasn't been such a decision in the country, it hasn't been discussed, we're not informed, the way this decision was presented in public, and I think it's hasty, there hasn't been any preliminary analysis. The very road that represents a city's main artery could also affect the city's further blocking. I don't think it's well thought out and the municipality hasn't introduced any alternative to unlocking the road if it closes”, Bata said.

In terms of expanding the capital's promenade to the cathedral, citizens have different opinions.

The initiative to expand the square has considered it completely unnecessary, Mirsad Morina, who for Kosovo Press has said that if this road is closed, there will be numerous traffic problems.

He also has advice for the Pristina municipality.

Morina: There's no need for this street to become a square.

If this artery closes down, it has to first make a choice now to look, and it's going to close the road Sunday, let's go through the job from 7am to 8 p.m. “, the capital said.

Citizens Isuf Musliu, although pleased with the construction of this square, it as a requirement is initially to solve the driving problem through alternative routes.

Musliu: Without becoming alternative roads, no square should be built

The idea is to get shot, but not to do it, and if in other streets you never build it, even citizens can't walk or drive, that's because I don't trust the municipality and the good ideas where it doesn't work out...0920s with the peripheral roads built, without building them, it's not about being blocked because people and pedestrians and vehicles in circulation”, this resident said.

The return of roads from the cathedral to the Hotel “Grand”, in the square, has welcomed Sahit Marashi, who said it is good to have as much recreative space in the capital as possible.

Marashi: Building the New Needed Square

“has been necessary..00:42 There are also problems with communications as much space in this part as best for elders and young people”, Maraschi has declared.

In addition to the three existing squares currently in Pristina, recently in the capital following the renovation for exploitation of the “Adem Jashar”