Photo: Ana Paunkovic/FonetCases of breakdowns of city transport vehicles in Belgrade continue one after the other. Now a human life has been lost due to someone else's negligence. Director of the Center for Local Self-Government, Nikola Jovanović, tells "Vreme" that they have been warning about the dangerous state of vehicles in public traffic for a long time.
For months, many have been pointing out the dangerous state of public transport vehicles in Belgrade.
Director of the Center for Local Self-Government, Nikola Jovanović, tells "Vreme" that, unfortunately, it really happened now tragedy which was warned about.
"We have been warning for years about the problems in Belgrade's public transport and I regret that we failed to warn the public enough before someone lost their life. Condolences to the family, and the license of the private carrier to transport passengers in Belgrade should be permanently revoked and a criminal complaint filed," says Jovanović.
He adds that it is a private carrier "Banbus" from Obrenovac, the bus is of Turkish production, but the main problem is maintenance.
"Either the maintenance workers in a hurry didn't tighten all the belts on the vehicle and let it into traffic faster, better, so the driver didn't notice, or pretended not to notice and drove like that," says Jovanović.
He emphasizes that "Banbus" is an example of how it should not be done, but that for years the Secretariat for Public Transport and competent inspections and the Ministry of Interior turned a blind eye to problems.
A series of crashes
The condition of the buses operating in Belgrade is also shown by the data on how often they catch fire or break down.
At the end of November 2023, a bus on line 351 burned down in Vojislav Ilića Street near the Blue Bridge.
Two days before that, a GSP bus was literally cut in half near the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
At the end of October last year, it was on Brankovo Most the bus burned down on line 704.
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