People in Calabria accuse the municipality of neglecting the bridge and the streams

And the most difficult is the people on the road “Recep Krasniqi”, who daily face the unpleasant smell of the torrent and even the many wastes there. As if this were not enough because of the bridge's major damage - either its collapse - the torrent's water came upon it, forming a resounding well. Few, however, try to overcome and succeed.

Residents of this area blame all of this on Pristina's municipality, or President Shpend Ahmeti, who, according to them, had visited the neighbourhood only in campaign time, where he had asked them to vote from door to door.

This neighborhood's resident, Nakiye Raif, has expressed concern not only with the inability to cross the bridge but also with the health consequences that can result from the smell of contaminated water.

She has accused Ahmeti of leaving this part of the city so badly that she has named it “catund in the middle of Pristina”.

You already had the wind coming. What comes out of a mosquito? The needs of the entire city go through, no matter what, no one is coming over here with an eye. We're fixing it. Shpend is saying, but unless you get the votes, you don't give five bucks. He's got 1Mat on that side, you're not thinking down here, he's left a floor in the middle of town”, she said.

On the other hand, Raif has told Kosovo Press that the neighborhood he lives in has other problems, even lack of lighting during the night, about which President Shpend Ahmeti has said he is fully committed to this issue, but that others are sabotaged his work.

It's hard to get this way. I've been on that side for more than a month. I'm going down, I'm putting them around. Dude, when the rain fell, it fell in there, the river is not, it's dirty. No one's ever considered it, even though we've called the city emergency, they don't even look at anything. Nor does light here, nor does the police have any light, whenever thieves entered”, Raif said.

Disappointed with the Pristina municipality, Raif does not expect the situation to improve in that part. Although it says sanitizing this torrent is urgent.

While the other resident of the neighbourhood “Rexhep Criniqi”, Haki Shkodra, has confessed to Kosova Preris that this area had once been better, but that the period in question when he himself cared for the bridge and not the municipality.

“There are workers, there are people who engage here that each of their businesses, corruption and oxen. We have less money than we have. And these two, and the one with the help of Sahit Shala, who they have as a drill here, these two times we've made ourselves... They're laughing and shit, maybe you've seen them. A mattress is in there, guess what, he's got the tire hanging over him. Don't take the water away.

For the unpleasant wind prevalent in that part, Shala says that it is very difficult to stay in the courtyards, even adding that trees are not safe for consumption.

Even the squirrels that are making it, even north when they blow, to breathe, for 500 meters around here consume that wind”, he said.

Until the director of capital investments in the municipality of Pristina, Gzim Mehmeti has not responded to Kosovo Press's calls, Adonis Tahiri, the municipality's spokesman, has justified the municipality's delays in resolving this issue with the reason that construction of the cholera being done in that area should once be expected.

The bridge in Calabria neighbourhood is in the part where the collector will be worked. That's why we have to wait for the conclusion of the collector in that segment to make it a dead end. So far, we've had delays because of the property problems that are in this part, these problems that are close to solution”, was his response.

Otherwise, while Kosovo's team was standing there, numerous cars came and went back, as they could not get to the other side of the road. /