THESSALONIKI: Hare with petrachelia – Parallaxi Magazine
It is a beacon that the government and its local attendees are alarmed by the dissatisfaction of the city residents for the stability and the constant abandonment, but also for the mockery with announcements and stagnation projects for decades.
The treatment of the city as a satire of the Greek state creates a feeling of inferiority that is constantly growing.
Thessaloniki: The sad tale of a city-parakori
In the face of all this, he has been trying to change the climate in recent months. With the arrival every two weeks of ministers, secretaries and other officials explaining the same works that have been announced for twenty years and other pharaonic plans, such as the famous fly over, with press releases that say the city is changing dramatically and presentation in various sci-fi mockups of transformations that are currently on the computer of an ambitious architect.
At the same time, the government spokesman calls a meeting with the writer Isidoros Zourgos to ask him what he has heard in relation to the dissatisfaction of the city!
Just the day before yesterday, the ministry sent us a resounding e-mail announcing 20 plus 1 projects that most of them will start in 2023! These works were presented for the umpteenth time at a conference in the city.
None of the attendees thought to ask the obvious: How while the construction industry around the world is completely derailed at the moment, huge projects are stopped all over the world due to the terrible increase in raw material prices, contractors return the money in advance to buyers because under these conditions buildings are not going to rise, Greek ministers submit to Thessaloniki projects with hypothetical budgets made with other conditions and with prices that belong to the past.
Because only in December the building materials increased from 15-75%. In January the increase reached for constructions up to 70% in the cost per sq.m.
According to ELSTAT, there were increases in electricity (56.7%), diesel (26.3%), reinforcing iron (17.4%), copper pipes (14.3%), copper pipes (12, 5%), bricks (10.4%), radiators (8.1%), plastic pipes (8.1%), plastic pipes, synthetic, fiber cement (6.6%), parquet (6.2%) , safety glass (5.9%), fitted cabinets (5.5%), building timber (5.3%), aluminum frames (4.7%), ready-mixed concrete (4.1%), interior doors (4 , 1%), plastic, acrylic, water (3.5%), wooden windows (3.3%), cement (3.2%) and marble slabs (3%).
With this data, to say that FlyOver starts and will cost 350 million and will be completed on time without of course being able to explain where you will find the money to pay the differences and which contractor will risk starting the project in such a fluid season seems naive or deliberate.
It is very easy to feed like a city, especially in a pre-election year, but lying has short legs. When the serious businessman Mr. Mylonas of Allumil describes how “the largest development project in Israelthe erection of three huge towers “, went on the ice and that” if the cost of energy remains as high as it is today, we will need a much longer period of time to return to the growth trend that existed lately “, not ruling out storms and in the field of real estate on the same day you talk about the transformation of a city is at least funny.
The tragedy is that in the general pre-ecology we read even bigger arlumbes such as the percentage of the works of the long-suffering metro. So they recently informed in a special meeting that the Arta bridge project was completed at a rate of 82%. Except that we did not say exactly that in recent years 7% of the project was completed, which was completed at a rate of 75% and that in the period 2016 – 2019, 42% of the project was executed, which from 33% in 2016 reached 75.% in 2019. These.