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Sofia Municipality imposes BGN 600 000 fines on the contractors of the project for the renovation of the area around the National Palace of Culture (NDK), said Yordanka Fandakova, Mayor of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia in an interview for bTV.
The major reason is that the contractors have been returning up to seven times in order to finish renovation of the park area in front of NDK.
“There are very serious sanctions in the contracts and I am applying them without hesitation,” said Fandakova for bTV. "It is a tough project because these are granite tiles, very expensive, and surprises occurred very often.”
According to the Mayor, most of the renovation projects planned for 2015 have been postponed for 2016 in order to avoid a blockade of the capital.
The vast and most important projects for this year include completion of the reparation of Vitosha Blvd in direction South Park and the construction of Sofia metro’s third line.
The building of the new third metro line is “the most serious project,” planned to begin in January 2016 and finish in 2020. The project includes the building of seven new metro stations. The new line will start from “The Little City Theatre off the Channel,” passing by Eagles Bridge (Orlov Most), the junction of “Patriarch Evtimii” and “Graf Ignatiev,” the intersection of “Patriarch Evtimii” and Vitosha Blv, and will reach the final stations of Bulgaria Blvd and Ivan Geshov Blvd.
The functioning of the line, according to Municipality’s estimations, will lessen the traffic connecting Ovcha kupel and Levski neighborhoods with the center. Another expected positive effect will be the reduction of the level of toxic emissions in the capital with 90 000 tones a year.
“This is our priority regarding the ecology and the green politics of the city,” said Fandakova.
Other renovation projects for 2016 include replacement of Sofia’s public transport vehicles and comprehensive restoration of the city roads. The Municipality plans to reach the roads inside the neighborhoods, for which it has already put aside BGN 10 M.
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