Parking instead of trees: the police sided with the developer

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The police stopped the dismantling of the illegal parking lot on Shevchenko Boulevard, 4. Pavement restoration work has been stopped.

The new parking lot on Shevchenko Boulevard, 4 opens directly onto the designated lane for cyclists

Today, the workers of the Shevchenkivsky District SEU stopped the dismantling of the illegal parking lot on Shevchenko Boulevard, 4. The communal workers were forced to submit to the demands of the police. They declared that liquidation of the parking lot is impossible without the permission of its owner and demanded to stop the work. Deputy Ksenia Semenova became a witness of what was happening.

Photo: Yulia Danilova

The plot on which they are trying to arrange parking spaces in front of the restored hotel used to be part of a sidewalk with trees. They were cut down, and the area itself was converted from a pedestrian area into a parking area. This fact outraged the indifferent public. The day before, on Sunday, the cycling community of the capital organized "Velo-Halloween against sidewalk theft" as a sign of protest. However, today, as well as yesterday during the bicycle protest, unknown young people are gathering to protect the parking lot, presumably from the side of the developer. This was reported by the Deputy Head of the KMDA Konstantin Usov.

Instead of a sidewalk with trees, there is a parking lot

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