Valjevo: Three hundred meters of asphalt for over one million euros

Thanks to the progressive government, Valjevo, like the whole of Serbia, is pure plus quamperfect. Work is being done and built here too, the most in history, but for a long time the biggest undertaking was the opening of new premises of the Serbian Progressive Party, with a lovely picture of Vučić on the facade.

And Vučić is responsible for that, because according to his instructions, over 50 percent of the new mayors and presidents of municipalities are young and promising. The young gymnast Lazar Gojković, registered as a non-partisan person, who happened to Vučić when he was opening the hotel of the basketball player Miloš Teodosić in Divčibare, had a crush on Valjeva. Vučić, as legend has it, asked Miloš, Do you have someone for president, and the latter replied, Here is Laza. Thus, Laza, who passed balls to children at Teodosić's basketball camp in Kladovo, became one of over 50 percent of new mayors and presidents of municipalities in Serbia.

And Laza figures, he regularly congratulates on holidays, and all the decisions of the mayor and the city assembly are prepared and approved by party coordinators from Ub and other big cities.

Thus, the new party premises could not remain the only investment. A few months ago, it was announced that the paved paths at the New Cemetery were a record 720 meters long, and that in square meters, that's already an impressive figure, amounts to 2160 meters. It's a pity that they didn't calculate it in square centimeters, it would be a figure for every respect.

You guessed it, it didn't stop there. Next came the reconstruction of Vuk Karadžić Street, which intersects the main Karađorđeva Street in the center, and which has been planned for several years. It started on the sixth of September last year, the completion of the works announced for the sixth of December.

The city was blocked for several months, and during that time, breaking the deadlines, they managed to pave Vuk Karadžića street, with behaton slabs on the sidewalks, from Željeznička to Karađorđeva, and they stopped there, from Karađorđeva to the Kolubara bridge, the old asphalt was removed on on one side of the road, on which there is now a paddy field.

It was explained that the works were stopped due to weather conditions, rain and snow. As the Supervisory Authority stated for the "Kolubarske" portal, the most important thing is that the work for the infrastructure, primarily the sewer pipes, has been completed. The underground infrastructure, as stated by the Authority, was unknown, but this has been overcome. They had problems with hot water and sewage installations, because over thirty percent of them were not in the project and technical documentation, they did not know where and what they were. To the remarks that, in the part of the street that is asphalted, water collects on the roadway, it was said that this is because the street has no slope, but that will be regulated as well.

The contractors, "Kompresor ing" and "Eletrovolt" from Valjevo, requested, and received, an amendment to the contract on the value of the works, so 300 meters of asphalt will cost 127,2 million dinars, instead of the original 138,8 million dinars. At the beginning of November, they requested that the funds be increased by 8,4 million, "due to unforeseen circumstances", and at the end of December by another 3,2 million, "due to additional works that have become necessary".

In the meantime, the people of Valjevci drive through the center of the city on paddy fields, and when the asphalt of over one million euros will be finished, although it is not available in Tarabić, it is estimated before the April elections. It is to be expected that by then there will be new unforeseen circumstances and works that will become necessary, which will increase the price even more.

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