Events and Opinions: Why can’t Istanbul breathe?
In cities, people come and go, it’s a breath taking place in a city. This is also an urban dynamic! If those who come to a city do not go back, they become obese. He can’t breathe. How much to invest in the obese city and provide temporary comfort.
The asylum seekers who came to Istanbul in the last 4 years have increased the population of Istanbul by 3 million people and Istanbul’s population has just reached 19 million. In the last 4 years, the main reason for the increasing traffic load in Istanbul and the public transportation that has decreased in comfort is the refugees.
The consequences of this immigration structure imposed by imperialism are clearer examples in the future when there are fights between the refugees and the local people in the districts. The solution is for these refugees to leave Istanbul.
BLOCKED LOANS AND PROJECTS
IMM struggles for months and finds loans from the guesthouse. However, the projects are not signed in the Presidency and ministry offices. If the loans are not used on time, what will be Istanbul’s track record for the next loans? There is no government that thinks about it. The only goals are the Istanbul execution.
Istanbul needs to build a metro of 15-20 km per year, not 5 km per year, as in the West. Compared to AKP’s previous IMM administration, which makes 5 km subway per year despite all obstacles, 10 km subway is built annually at the new IMM meeting. Even if there are no obstacles, there may be 15-20 km metro facilities per year.
BUREAUCRATIC OBSTRUCTIONS
Istanbul transportation is experiencing the consequences of wrong training in the past and messing up services today.
Istanbul, transition to metropolitan status For the first time since 1984, the structure of UKOME was changed. IMM cannot make a decision. 5 thousand new taxi decisions were rejected 14 times. People cannot find a taxi.
In the metros transferred by the Ministry of Transport to the İBB, the payments to be made for the repayment of the production of the metros to the ministry are collected from 15 percent of the ticket revenues on the previously transferred line, while with the decree issued at the end of May 2019, 5 percent of the payment that the municipality receives from Iller Bank every month is from the source. started to be cut. To illustrate this with an example, the Pendik Tavşantepe – Sabiha Gökçen metro line, which the ministry transferred to IMM in October 2022, is 7.4 km and its construction cost is 4.4 billion TL. On this line, 15 percent of the monthly ticket income of 685 thousand passengers in November 2022 goes to 308 thousand TL. However, IMM paid 196 million TL according to the new circular after October.
195 million 692 thousand TL extra collection will be made every month until the end of this year, as a revenge from IMM. According to the pre-2019 implementation, this means a 635-floor array. After the New Year, 374 million TL per month will be deducted from the share of IMM from Iller Bank for this hat.
Employees should not clear a chimney in their hearts by using obstacles in every matter, otherwise the accumulated organizations will set a fire in their own souls.
Dr. SUAT YELLOW
TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC SPECIALIST