Nerudova: Prague 1 first widened the sidewalk, now it is parked crosswise again
After Prague 1 had a roundabout built at the Powder Gate in the historic heart of Prague, the city district remains further criticized. In Nerudova Street, in recent days, limestone mosaics of parking lines have appeared on the sidewalk, which have changed longitudinal parking to transverse parking. Cars can now park on the sidewalk. It is paradoxical that parking was the same there until 2018, when Prague 1 had the sidewalk widened.
Cars in Nerudova Street can now park on the sidewalk, as the city district has white and blue lines painted on the mosaic, which change the longitudinal parking to transverse parking. The new local arrangement provoked a heated debate. Some critics are bothered by the unaesthetic nature of the whole intervention in the historic city center, as was the case with the roundabout, which was recently created at the Powder Gate. “That obsession with white lines, it’s going to be a traffic terrorist,” wrote one of the people of Prague on Twitter under a post to provide for the news.
Most opponents mind that such a solution worked in Nerudova Street until 2018 – it was parked transversely, then the sidewalk was widened and parking spaces decreased, and now, paradoxically, everything is returning to the state before 2018. “It’s also terrible that this whole operation had to cost some money and a lot of man-hours fell on it. Both on the manual work itself and on the ‘invention’ itself, “angry economist Michal Sirový is angry on social networks, who drew attention to the bizarre actions of the city district.
Ch The extension of the sidewalk was devised in 2018 by the former mayor (Oldřich Lomecký, TOP 09, note Red.) together with people from the Castle and did not ask anyone.
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