Athens, experiments and installation
To be precise, we have to experience “Athens at its worst”, as we had the feeling that after the pandemic, we would not return to the worst place from where we had to leave a year and a half ago. And yet. In most of the big cities of the western world, things have been done or are happening with a view to the future, in order to become sustainable and friendly for the residents and the patients, Athens must claim one of the worst places. Of course, according to the new government doctrine, this may… “be God’s will” – no one goes there, especially if the assurance of intervention has serious people, such as government officials, who interpret things as if they are preaching in temples on Sundays. . In the case, however, that it is not… “god’s will”, but has done only with human impotence, bigotry and installation, there can be a discussion on more minor causes for this mess.
All transport experts agree, for example, that a crucial issue in cities like Athens is public transport. The pandemic gave them the opportunity to upgrade – because how can citizens trust them and prefer their cars, for those who have a car of course. And yet. No real concept of fleet and potential is an investment in the future.
We are not talking about an organized and studied intervention plan in the city – traffic regulations, sidewalks, bike paths, parking, breathing and the like. Here an intervention business, the very expensive idiot who was called the Great Walk and, despite the bitter, shameful and scandalous failure, continue the experiments, with plane trees, he says now! They have not even studied or observed the supply hours of the stores. So far, anyone else enters, whenever he wants, without even checks.
Even that outdated measure of the ring was remembered for the perfect October, with the absolutely legally challenged, but also extremely strange “invention” that it will be free only for electric cars.
It is now clear that every intervention is done in fragments … Everything that was captured in everyone’s head and mainly with communication criteria – what impression will it make in short – practice. Because they believe that with the impressions they will achieve their high personal ambitions and not with the real involvement with the city and their problems.
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