From unusable streets and non-existent sewerage in the south of the country, through the threatened electricity network in Vojvodina, to the legal uncertainty surrounding the legalization and operation of local self-governments, citizens throughout Serbia face systemic neglect of basic infrastructure
Although the public often talks big about capital projects and modernization, the daily life of citizens outside the innermost city centers looks quite different. Comments and testimonies of residents of various municipalities on the Facebook page of the Regional Information Agency JUGpress indicate deep dissatisfaction with the work of local communal services and the failure to maintain basic living conditions.
The critical state of roads and utility networks is mentioned in almost all parts of the country, while some settlements have been left without a solution for years:
Certain streets in rural and suburban settlements in the vicinity of Leskovac still do not have asphalt or basic communal conditions. Citizens point out that the works are often suspended or carried out partially, leaving hundreds of meters of unpaved or unpaved road.
In Loznica, the works on the sewage network were started in 2012 and have not been completed to this day. The section, about 700 meters long, only three kilometers from the city center, is still covered with gravel instead of asphalt.
The road route that connects this section of Magaš and Dobra Voda in Bojnik has been described as catastrophic and dangerous for traffic, which directly makes life difficult for the remaining population in these villages.
In addition to unsafe roads, citizens point to serious security risks that directly threaten lives and property. They write that there are unresolved electrical spaces in Vojvodina (in Vladimirovac near Pancevo). Residents warn of old, rotting wooden poles that serve as supports for power cables. Because of the fear of falling wires and potential accidents, the locals appeal to the authorities every day, but there is no reaction.
They also say that the roads in the municipality of Vlasotince and the surrounding mountain villages are not cleaned, so when the snow falls, it regularly blocks the local roads. Citizens wonder how the winter services are caught off guard year after year by the usual winter precipitation, leaving the locals cut off from the world while, at the same time, charging from the budget for services that are not provided to the citizens.
Without concrete work on the ground, resolving paperwork and rebuilding infrastructure in the interior of Serbia, rural and suburban settlements will continue to rapidly empty, and citizens will be left to fend for themselves in conditions unworthy of the 21st century, say citizens on the JUGpress Facebook page.
Source: JUGpress
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