Scraped asphalt parked instead of cars: Tivat Parking Service has not yet carried out a surface renovation campaign

The company Parking servis doo Tivat, which manages public parking lots in that city, has not carried out the renovation of temporary macadam parking lots by filling them with scratched asphalt in Đačka Street in the city center, or at Tivat Airport, for more than a month.

In these parking lots, even though the summer tourist season has already begun, there are still a total of 650 cubic meters of scraped asphalt in piles that have not yet been spread and rolled over the entire parking lot area.

"The delivery was carried out as part of preparations for the planned development of the parking lot, for which the company received approval from the Central Bank of Montenegro, the owner of the area. The plan is to fill and level the terrain with the delivered material, which would provide a longer-term and more functional solution for parking lot users," the director of the Parking Service told local media on March 5. Snežana Vukosavović, Novosel, when 300 cubic meters of scraped asphalt had already been delivered to the parking lot on Đačka Street.

She then explained that the use of scraped asphalt "is expected to result in a more stable surface, reduced material wastage and a lower possibility of creating unevenness on the ground," and that the filling and rolling of the delivered quantities of scraped asphalt at that parking lot will begin "after the completion of administrative procedures, while the implementation dynamics will depend on the conditions on the ground."

However, piles of unscraped asphalt still stand in the parking lot, almost two months after the director's announcement, completely occupying its northwestern part, making it impossible to use about a dozen paid parking spaces for cars.

The municipal company did not precisely answer the question of "Vijesti" when Parking Servis will finally spread and roll the deposited material over the surface of the parking lot in Đačka and at Tivat Airport, or why they have been allowing those locations to look like construction waste warehouses for a month, rather than well-maintained public parking spaces that have been entrusted to that company for management.

"The agreement on the takeover of the material, namely the scraped asphalt, was signed in June 2025 between our Company and the Transport Administration of Montenegro. However, they delivered it to us now, in March 2026. I would like to point out that this is material that we received for free, that is, for which our Company did not incur any costs, and it is a total of 650 cubic meters of material and we distributed it at locations specified in the Agreement itself from the previous period. We would have paid up to 30 euros per cubic meter for this type of material, which would ultimately amount to almost 20.000 euros. This is the money that we have actually saved," said Snežana Vukosavović Novosel.

She pointed out that the agenda of the next Tivat Municipal Council session, which has not yet been scheduled, should include the Parking Service's Work Plan and Program for 2026. According to her, the Plan, among other things, lists the development of almost all parking lots, as well as defines the sources from which it will be financed.

"According to the Law on Communal Activities, investment maintenance, and this (filling in the parking lots in Đačka and at the airport - ed.) is investment maintenance, we can work from the funds from the realized profit. Until 2023, the founder, the Municipality of Tivat, mainly made the decision to pay the realized profit to the founder. Given that the founder entrusts the parking lots to our company for further management and maintenance, and since I, as the director, inherited them in very poor condition, in some parts almost unusable, we asked the founder to leave the profit from 2023 to 2025, so that we could complete the investments in repairing the parking lots on the territory of the municipality," Vukosavović-Novosel pointed out, adding that "we consider this extremely important from the first moment, for the image of the city, and especially because Tivat is an elite tourist destination."

She emphasized that "it is important and we believe that the founder will make a decision to leave the profit to the company, so that in addition to arranging all parking lots in Tivat, we can also invest money in further modernizing and improving the entire system, now two companies, Parking Service and Bus Station."

She emphasized that the tender documentation for the development of the parking lot is already ready, and that the tender will be announced "as soon as the founder - the Municipality of Tivat, makes a decision on the distribution of funds in favor of our Society, and in favor of investment maintenance."

Delay in setting up information boards

Although it has announced and included it in its Work Plans for the past few years, the Parking Service has not yet installed the promised digital information boards on roads leading to the city center, which would inform drivers in real time about the number of available parking spaces in the so-called special parking lots in Arsenalska and Đačka Streets, in Pakovo and at the Airport.

When asked why this was so, Director Vukosavović-Novosel indirectly shifted responsibility to the Municipality, emphasizing that Parking Service had recently completed the project for info boards, received bids for them, as well as confirmations "on the possibilities of linking software from special parking lots and the boards themselves."

"Our Plan also includes the procurement and installation of information boards. The way in which we will implement this project and when will be defined soon, and we can provide you with additional information after consultations with the competent Secretariat for Transport and Communal and Housing Affairs and the Investment Directorate, which we initiated, given the plan for the construction of a new boulevard in Tivat," she pointed out, adding that it is "important for the Parking Service that the project for installing information boards be long-term, sustainable, and in accordance with any changes to the roadway during the construction of the boulevard."