The date of publishing:
29.04.2024 23:06
The PNL candidate for mayor of Bucharest presented, on Monday, his “Plan for Bucharest”, which provides, among other things, proposals related to the fight against drugs, moving transport underground, heating, digitization, a “green” Bucharest but also a project called “Bucharest port on the Danube”, reports Agerpres.
The liberal candidate said that in recent years Bucharest lacked a vision and that he had been translating his ideas for Bucharest into a book for a long time.
“I wrote this book, “The Plan for Bucharest”, precisely to give a perspective and, as you know, it was published before the PNL candidate was announced. Because I did not enter this fight, together with you, for a position. I entered for the ideas that deserve to be put into practice,” said Burduja.
He mentioned that he has studies that will help him in the realization of a modern administration.
“I trained in urban development, that’s what I did at the World Bank, that’s what I studied at Stanford, at Harvard,” explained Sebastian Burduja.
The PNL candidate began the presentation of his plan for the Capital with a current topic – the fight against drug use. He emphasized that a mayor can do this in partnership with the Ministry of the Interior and through the presence of local policemen in the vicinity of schools.
Another chapter presented by the candidate is “Connected Bucharest” and aimed at streamlining traffic.
“Let’s take the traffic underground and leave the city for the people,” Burduja pointed out, giving as an example the effect of “The Big Dig” project in the American city of Boston.
The liberal said that he wants Bucharest to become a port on the Danube.
“It’s a project that I care a lot about and it’s called “Bucharest port on the Danube”. We have a Danube-Bucuresti canal, which is about 70% finished. No one has been able to do that in 34 years. It’s not the communists’ idea, it’s from Alexandru Ioan Cuza. Think how it would be for Bucharest to join the league of European cities that are ports on the Danube: Budapest, Belgrade, Vienna, Bratislava. We belong to this club.
Water transport, by the way, is the cheapest form of transport. Danube cruise Bucharest-Vienna? Sure! Danube Cruise Bucharest – Danube Delta? Why not? We said from the very beginning, we must no longer propose small things, small stakes make small people and small cities, big stakes make big people and big cities”, said Burduja.
He also spoke about “civilized Bucharest”, with hot water and heat. In 2024, added Burduja, there is still talk in the Capital of many blocks without hot water and heat. Among the solutions presented was the fact that there is geothermal water in the north of Bucharest, which must be used as green energy, renewable energy, for heating.
Burduja also referred to the creation of a new park, which would connect Izvor Park with the park around the Parliament Palace and the park in front of the Romanian Academy.
The liberal also talked about the need to build some underground parking lots, but also about the transformation of Baneasa Forest into an urban park.
Digital Bucharest and the creation of a “unicorn factory” was the last point presented by the candidate in his plan on Monday.
“At Digital Bucharest I want to talk to you about a soul project called the “unicorn factory”. The “unicorn factory” happened in Lisbon. The town hall there took an old industrial area, a former factory, and turned it into a hub for start-ups. It looks sensational! We have a lot of spaces in Bucharest that lend themselves to this!”, Burduja also said.
The Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, submitted his candidacy for the seat of general mayor on Saturday, at the Municipal Electoral Office, in the presence of the PNL leader, Nicolae Ciucă.
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