Wanted as it is better. Also it turned out!
to the Contract on cooperation between Moscow and Zagreb will execute 15 years soon. The mayor of the Croatian capital Milan Bandich holds the post one year bigger therefore can judge that from planned then it turned out.
is just that case when practically all intentions were realized, - he speaks. - For example, in the field of culture, in creation of public organizations, in the sphere of transport, ecology. We used your experience in technologies of water purification. Muscovites created very good filters. I know that Moscow now widely uses practice of payment by drivers of parkings through SMS. And we were pioneers in this case.
Moscow - the huge city. Zagreb not such big, but cares at the city authorities the very similar: Housing and communal services, public transport, social policy, health care... For the last fifteen years I many times visited your capital, met Sergey Sobyanin and always with pleasure noticed those positive changes which there happen.
the Burgomaster of Vienna Mikhael Khoypl too the old resident of a capital town hall, the champion among the European town governors: twenty two years direct one of the most beautiful cities of the world. And it also is quite satisfied with those contacts which developed with Moscow Government. This city diplomacy, all emphasized my interlocutors, is especially important now when at interstate level war of the sanctions is developed, many former communications are curtailed.
- I told p to sceptics: that's it now, when communication at the level of the governments is complicated, our trips to Russian Federation have special value, - the mayor tells Milan Bandich to Giuliano Pisapia. - Dialogue should not interrupt by no means, differently to be to trouble. We signed the Memorandum of cooperation with Moscow in which the main directions of our relations in various spheres are defined. It is culture, tourism, education, health care, social policy, transport, ecology. Problems of megalopolises at all are approximately identical and it is much easier to solve them joint efforts. For example, our municipal engineering company and structures of yours of JSC "RZHD" created joint venture which is engaged in the solution of transport problems in Moscow.
"Brick" on entrance to the center
I of such spheres where Muscovites successfully used experience of the West European capitals, it is a lot of. To take, for example, foot zones. At us than them becomes more increasing. But there are cities where all center is given to pedestrians. Let's tell, the capital Slovenia. In comparison with Moscow it as the territory in the Boulevard ring. And there really there are no cars, exceptions do only for cars of emergency services. And, certainly, for cyclists who make a third of the population of Ljubljana.
the Mayor (local - zhupan) Zoran Yankovich admitted conversation that representatives of Moscow Government and even ministers Gorodskoye government came to Slovenia, were interested as these zones are arranged. to
- It is glad if we something helped, - he speaks. - I in the last arrival to you paid attention that Muscovites willingly walk on the city, families, friendly campaigns, now it absolutely other persons, than what saw quarter of the century back. It is noticeable that people are proud of the capital, the country.
A the mayor Milan Bandich Giuliano Pisapia with pride told p to me that only for the last year Milanese landed 50 thousand trees. In those parks where children walk, forbade smoking.
Signor Pizapia especially is proud of the achievements in that, as for fight against jams. In particular, broad introduction of car-sharing system.
is not our invention, - he explains. - However we promoted here further others. Now two thousand cars are disseminated through all to Milan Bandich. As a rule, it either electrodriving cars, or small smarts. You determine by the cell phone where the next car is parked, take it and - forward. Payment also is carried out remotely. This project in combination with development of public transport allowed us to reduce demand for acquisition of personal cars by 30%, so - to solve a problem of jams, to improve an ecological situation. This service is especially popular with young people. In total about three hundred thousand Milanese use it.
the Mayor of the largest Italian city considers that in fight against jams there are no certain recipes for all capitals.
- Only complex efforts can yield result, and as far as I was convinced, Muscovites chose a right course: develop public transport, enter paid parkings, build outcomes... We went also to such unpopular measure, as paid entrance to the downtown. Our efforts were not in vain. The last measurements of ecologists show that the dust and harmful particles in the atmosphere Milan Bandich became 35% less. Wide use of electric cars, electrobuses, trams, the subway, car-sharing is works for the benefit of citizens.
By the way, and in Ljubljana the city authorities put the task to make so that a half of motorists refused own cars. Within the car-sharing program the city already bought fifty small electric cars of type a smart. There also ten years intercepting parkings effectively work at the main entries into the city. The person leaves the car, buys the ticket for 1,5 euros, for this money within a day it can use city transport and not worry for safety of the car. Every day on such parkings tens of thousands of cars find a shelter.
to Dumps - fight
One more burning issue, characteristic for all megalopolises is a garbage. Here we had an obvious lag from for which now Moscow tries to make up and besides taking into account the developed world experience.
B Milan Bandich more than three million inhabitants plus 12 million tourists a year. And everyone leaves behind garbage mountains.
- People managed to accustom to divide not at once household waste, it was necessary to carry out powerful explanatory campaign, - Giuliano Pisapia tells. - Still we arranged competition between all nine districts of the city with symbolical prizes. And now 53% of all city garbage at us are separated, and the divided waste then is subject to processing. 98 thousand city apartments and a set of public buildings are heated by the energy received from garbage.
But further away municipal authorities of Vienna went in this case. The incineration plant constructed there reminds the beautiful entertaining center or the fantastic lock more. Heat from burning of garbage goes for heating more than hundred thousand houses of the Austrian capital.
the Burgomaster Mikhael Khoypl told me such story:
- Somehow there arrived the mayor Madrid, and I invited him to a dinner in restaurant which is on a viewing tower. My guest, considering from height Vienna, asked: "Tell, what it for the beautiful building there, in the distance? And what it for the awful building near it"? I answered:" The building which seemed to you awful, is the best hospital . And beautiful is an incineration plant". It did not ask more questions. When on the street it is very cold, you can consider a white haze from pipes. But it is only water condensate, steam which is not containing harmful impurity. Such remarkable technologies! whether
that recently Vienna was again recognized as the best city of the world on quality of life Should after that be surprised with p. And in a rating of the cities on level of personal security it took the fifth place.
B Ljubljana the waste recycling plant constructed on the most modern technologies, is capable "to swallow" one third of household waste only Slovenia. It managed to the city in 150 million euros, but now experts from all over the world here go - to get acquainted with this miracle.
- As for purity, we start teaching in kindergartens kids carefully to treat environment, - Zoran Yankovich told. - Garbage containers on streets are hidden underground. If someone suddenly unintentionally or purposely leaves garbage on asphalt, it is threatened by a heavy fine. If the restaurant or cafe are noticed in similar violation, it should pay in city treasury of 10 thousand euros.
And at Moscow is to that to learn
All town governors to whom I talked, unanimously noted those positive changes which happen now in Moscow.
with- At first me were struck by scales of construction. Now I see that you began to pay more attention to comfort of an urban environment - there were new parks, foot zones, became tidier than the street, is a Zoran Yankovich.
- your city very pure, I even would tell, faultlessly pure. Fine illumination of buildings in the evening. Struck huge scales of construction of traffic intersections. Here I even felt a certain professional envy to mister Sergey Sobyanin, to us such investments do not allocate, is Giuliano Pisapia.
- We regularly meet at different levels, we exchange opinions and experiment on the widest range. And I would beware to give advice to team Sergey Sobyanin, it does not need them, high professionals, - Mikhael Khoypl there work.
- I well remember p that cold winter day when we in Moscow signed the contract on cooperation fifteen years ago: the frost was under thirty degrees moreover with a wind. But our relations sustained both bad weather, and other tests, - Milan Bandich.
... And life goes on. And it is good that in it there is such tradition: Days Moscow in the largest cities and Days of the European capitals in Moscow. It is good that there is a constant exchange of the working groups, official delegations, cultural figures, athletes. Town governors are right: problems of the global world can be solved only together.