Despite the numerous incidents of public transport vehicles that are owned by private carriers, the city authorities are planning to transfer another 30 lines to the private sector. The trade unions "Pravda", "Sloga" and "Centar" call for the immediate suspension of this plan
The tender for the procurement of new trams in Belgrade has been suspended for the second time in five months. The media speculate that this procedure is aimed at the Turkish manufacturer Bozonkaj, and the Center for Local Self-Government indicates that Siemens from Kragujevac, a local tram factory that operates under the world-famous brand, is being bypassed.
Accidents on city transport buses in Belgrade continue, and after a wheel falling off and an articulated bus being cut in half, another fire is becoming a common thing on the streets of Belgrade. This time it was smoking on Terazije
While the wheels of private buses are falling off, the temporary city authorities are planning to hand over 30 more lines to the private sector
Cases 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.
On Monday afternoon in Belgrade, a wheel fell off a GSP bus near Karađorđe Park and hit two women. One of them succumbed to her injuries in the meantime
The president of the Belgrade PSG board, Stefan Simić, demands an urgent technical inspection of all GSP vehicles because a wheel fell off one vehicle today and seriously injured two women on the sidewalk.
Passengers using the 511 bus complain that the vehicles are dirty and unsafe, and recall that several vehicles have recently caught fire
This morning in Belgrade, for the fourth time in the last month and a half, a bus on line 511, which runs on the route Sremčica - Belgrade, caught fire. One of the citizens' comments was: "Does someone have to die in order to change the buses?" Do not pay the ticket in 511. Do not enter 511"
Director of the Center for Local Self-Government, Nikola Jovanović, tells "Vreme" that the problem lies in poorly executed privatization of public transport and insufficient supervision.
In the coming days, around 600 information boards will be in operation, instead of the 1.000 that the outgoing Mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić, promised. He stated that it does not matter whether his promise was fulfilled and criticized the media for "holding on to promises and trifles".
For the City Transport Company, an increase in current subsidies by 1,45 billion dinars is planned, which is proof of the company's bad business and even worse management, said the director of the Center for Local Self-Government (CLS), Nikola Jovanović
The higher public prosecution charges Nenad Milanović, an associate of Aleksandar Šapić, with influence peddling, after BIRN announced that he offered representatives of the Turkish company Kentkart a new job in a rigged tender.
The mayor deliberately kept silent about the fact that, in addition to the bus that burned on the Brankov bridge, a Turkish gas bus of the BMC brand also had an accident, because he intends to buy more copies of the same model, says the director of the Center for Local Self-Government
After a public city transport bus caught fire this morning and was completely burnt, the Center for Local Self-Government (CLS) points to systemic problems that cannot be considered isolated incidents. On the Instagram page that posted the video of the burning bus, citizens mostly commented that they were used to such incidents due to old and defective buses.
It will not be possible to get to the Prokop railway station because there are not enough GSP lines, say the association "Naša mesna zajednica" and with a petition they are asking for the introduction of trolleybuses, which are three times cheaper than buses.
City manager Miroslav Čučković came out with the information that on average, about 40.000 tickets are paid per day via SMS messages.
The mayor of Belgrade did not resign, nor did he offer it, but that's why he proposed, and the progressive majority adopted, a pre-election, populist budget rebalancing that serves his personal promotion, and in which payments for sectors and services of key importance for citizens' lives were reduced. of Belgrade
Until now, municipal militiamen punished passengers only in extreme cases, who, despite requests to send SMS, did not do so
The revenue from the sale of tickets in the city transport in Belgrade was about 230 million dinars per month in the last three months, which is twice the result compared to the same time last year, claims Nikola Jovanović.
Frequent traffic accidents in which public transport vehicles are involved point to the endangered safety of passengers. The fact that the drivers are overworked due to overtime contributes to this. Many GSP drivers leave the country due to poor working conditions, and the buses are driven by foreigners who often do not know the city
The "Vremena" reporter checked how it works this morning, and the first impressions are that the application is intuitive and easy to use, as well as that the functions of the application announced by the mayor, Aleksandar Šapić, work well.
Through the new application, it will be possible to buy a ticket, as well as to see where the city transport vehicles are located
Citizens waiting for public transport in high temperatures are visibly nervous. Without an application that shows where the GSP vehicles are located, thinned out by the summer schedule, they waste time and curse the city government because of the noise
Originally, the deadline for the availability of an application for mobile phones, through which passengers will be able to pay the ticket and receive information about the location of the vehicles, was the end of June. After that, the deadline was the beginning of July. There is no application yet
The Mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić, announced the "Belgrade Family Days" event, which will take place on June 24 and 25 in the area from Terazije Česma to Kalemegdan, with, as he said, different programs for all generations and within 15 thematic zones.
Instead of rebalancing the budget, for example, solving the problem of GSP's debt of 4,9 billion dinars, that problem is now deepening, since the second decision adopted by the Parliament deprived GSP of profitable lines that travel to Surčin and handed over to private carriers
