Politics hinders the establishment of Bar's parking service

The session of the Bar Assembly, where the councilors were supposed to discuss and adopt the Study on General and Special Parking Lots in the Municipality of Bar, has already been postponed twice, which is also a prerequisite for the new company of the Bar Municipality - Parking Service - to start concrete work.

Due to the lack of a quorum, the session of the Bar Municipal Assembly from March 10th was postponed, and yesterday's session was postponed for the same reason. The new one is scheduled for next week, April 16th, so the adoption of the Study is delayed by more than a month, which will also slow down the work of the company for the same period of time.

Parking Service Bar has been officially operating since August last year, the board of directors was appointed six months before that, but it is not yet known when parking fees will start being charged. Citizens will have to wait another week for answers to these and other questions regarding the operation of this company.

"Parking charges in parking lots determined by the Study will begin when the appropriate technical conditions are met," the Study, which "Vijesti" had access to, states, but it does not specify when that will happen.

The lack of a quorum is the result of the ruling parties' inability to secure a majority and reach an agreement, as the Bar opposition claims, and citizens are suffering because of it.

Director of the Parking Servis Bar company, founded by the Municipality, Nikica Purlija "Vijestima" did not respond to questions sent to it electronically yesterday about how this delay affects the work of that company and the establishment of parking fees.

"Vijesti" sources from the ruling coalition at the local level claim that a quorum has been secured for the next session, and that the document will certainly be adopted then and the Bar Parking Service will receive the green light to continue operating.

The study envisages two parking zones in Bar. The first will include parking lots in the part of the city bordered by the Adriatic Sea, Bulevar Dinastij Petrovića, Ulica JNA and Ulica Barskih logoraša, parking spaces in Old Bar, parking spaces in Žukotrlica and in Sutomore.

Stricter parking conditions will apply in this zone compared to the other zone. As the Study states, this is because this zone encompasses the narrow central city area, which contains a large number of commercial, business, entertainment, sports, cultural and similar facilities, which attract a large number of residents, generating increased demands for parking in the immediate vicinity of these facilities.

"In addition to the above, the presence of residential buildings, or rather the category that must be parked in the zone, is evident in this zone. Also, a factor that comes to the fore during the tourist season also makes the areas located by the sea - the "Žukotrlica" parking lot and part of the inner coastal core of Sutomore, candidates for the introduction of a restrictive parking regime. Namely, at the aforementioned locations during the summer tourist season, traffic congestion and significant disruption to the normal flow of traffic occur due to excessive use of passenger cars," the Elaborate proposal states.

The introduction of a restrictive parking regime in these zones, it is stated, should lead to more efficient use of existing capacities, as well as an increase in communal order.

The second zone will encompass the part of Bar bounded by the Željeznica River, the railway line, Makedonska Street, Trgovačka Street, and Bulevar Dinastijë Petrovića. It differs from the first in that it is mainly residential in character.

According to data from the Study, these two zones have 5.644 parking spaces for private cars, 81 spaces for motorcycles, 236 for people with disabilities, six spaces for buses, while 201 parking spaces are reserved.