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Oprescu to move statues from University area

14.04.10 | by: Vlad Alexandrescu | in: homenews

Only one more approval is needed to start working on the University parking, mayor of the Capital, Sorin Oprescu, announced yesterday. Thus, according to Agerpres, Oprescu stated that the City Hall only needed a final approval, from the Historical Monuments Commission, which is meeting today, to have the four statues from the University Square moved and start work on the underground parking. “Tomorrow we hope to obtain the last approval from the Historical Monuments commission to have the four statues moved and start work on the underground parking at the University Square,” Sorin Oprescu said yesterday. The four statues will be moved, on the investor’s expense, to Izvor Park, where they will remain until work on the parking “will reach underground level”, after which they are to be brought back to their original position. The four statues that are to be moved represent Michael the Brave, Spiru Haret, Ion Heliade Radulescu and Gheorghe Lazar. For the parking at the University a contract of concession of public works was signed with the private investor, the Inter Parking Hispania Co., Terra Test Cimentaciones ltd, Alius Inversiones ltd and Simex Co. Consortium, which is meant to ensure 38 parking lots.

On the same day, after inspecting the construction site for the Capital’s North-South Middle Line, Buzesti–Berzei-Uranus, the mayor announced that, in order to complete this section, city hall had to make 34 more expropriations out of the initial 81. Furthermore, Oprescu discussed with representatives of the Euroconstruct company, which are in the charge of the first stage of “the Buzesti-Berzei-Uranus breakthrough”, to cut between Victoria Square and Vasile Parvan street, as well as between Gara de Nord boulevard and Mircea Vulcanescu street. According to the City Hall, Gara de Nord boulevard – Mircea Vulcanescu street – Berzei street is an artery that would open up between the current Gara de Nord boulevard and Buzesti street. Works are divided in three sections, the second of which is to be completed by the end of next year, while the third, where more expropriations are to be made, will be completed pending on the completion of expropriation procedures.

After inspecting the Tunari street working site, Oprescu voiced his discontentment with the pace of works, which have been going on for almost a year, and were supposed to be completed, up to the junction with Stefan cel Mare street, by the end of April. “It’s been almost a year. What can I tell the people of Bucharest, that we’ve got a schedule, that we’re on the clock, that it’s been 4 or 5 months since no work has been done,” Sorin Oprescu told the representative of the company which was in charge of rehabilitating Tunari street, Euroconstruct. In his turn, the latter told the mayor that the works had been in keeping with the schedule, but the implementation of utilities had taken a long time, which complicated the entire process of rehabilitating the street.