Bild 1: Der Gemeinderat aus der Stimmenzahl von letzten Nächten. Zeichen sagt: "Wir wollen Makariou für uns alle. 🚲"
Bild 2: Makariou vor der Fußgängerzusatz.
Bild 3: Wie es jetzt aussieht.
Diese Fußgängerfusion kostet mehr als 2 Millionen Euro, ein großer Teil davon von der EU -Finanzierung. Dies verstößt gegen unsere Vereinbarung mit der EU. Wir werden riesige Geldstrafen bezahlen müssen und es zeigt, dass wir ein nicht vertrauenswürdiges Land sind. Die EU wird in Zukunft weniger wahrscheinlich helfen, etwas von uns zu finanzieren.
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Von alex_cy
16 Kommentare
Its only mon-fri 7am to 9pm, on peak hours the street will be closed, even shop owners wanted this, honestly, while I agree on the EU funding part, rush hour traffic might get better now which reduces total emmisions, and on weekends and nights the street remains closed for cars, we’ll see how it goes, its not necessarily all bad.
I partially agree with you, but you chose the worst before picture and the best after picture.
As it is now, Makariou lacks identity. I am not sure what the solution is, but let’s not pretend that the current situation is optimal.
It won’t do anything. I don’t go there because when I have time so does everybody else, and that means there is a screaming kid festival in Makariou which I prefer to avoid. It has nothing to do with cars.
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Still pending approval by the governing bodies.
Another fkn dumb idea. Shitting up the place for no reason.
guys, you’re doing it backwards.
I suspect the main complaint was from shop owners not getting enough pedestrians, and landlords who lost property value and have to deal with short rent lifecycles.
I wonder if this will increase pedestrian traffic, but I doubt it will make much difference.
Some cars were already allowed; taxis, buses and various other vehicles and they tended to go very fast because the road was open. So it was still dangerous to be on the road anyway so what was the point?
It was not pedestrianized in its current form. There were busses, taxis, residents, and the odd rental car that passed through, making it a road for cars. So it was a half baked solution anyway. You either make it pedestrianized fully, or non at all.
I’m going to make a prediction that if this goes through, the store owners will gradually start moving the various obstacles so that cars can park in the pedestrian areas in front of the shops (it’s already been done to a limited extent). I also predict that nobody will enforce the weekend hours. This will turn into a shit show at the expense of pedestrians and cyclists. Not to mention that it will increase bus transit times because of the traffic. Really bad move and a step in the wrong direction by the municipality.
EU funds were given for a pedestrian street… 🤦♂️
So there is a main complaint from shop owners that because the road is partially closed to car traffic they now receive less buyers and are losing money. And the solution is to open the road to cars so me, instead of going to the mall of Cyprus for shopping I will go to the shops on Makariou? Does anyone else see a problem with the logic here? So on one hand I have a mall with aircons and close to each other’s shops. On the other hand they want to offer a street under the heating sun, where I need to carry my bags among parked cars trying to find my parked car hundreds of meters away because the street of overparked with other customers cars. I really don’t appreciate the buying experience they want to offer me. It is not perfect now and it will be worse then
That’s elitism for ya. There’s a handful of shop owners along makariou who think that it’s the absence of cars that’s affecting their property value to diminish, not the fact that they’re asking absurd amounts of money for rent. This is them applying pressure to the municipality for reintroducing cars in makariou
Makariou as it is now isn’t functional. I’m all for bike access and pedestrian only roads, but makariou unfortunately is the worst road for this kind of idea. This decision removed all life from the area. Not long ago the place was a central meeting point for all kinds of activities, despite being a regular road with cars.
Long time coming