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Friday, 10 pm The Šančiai community drew more than 160 crosses under the municipal windows in black charcoal, symbolizing the trees that were planned to be felled on the Nemunas embankment street. However, such an expression of protest did not last long. In the afternoon, it was cleaned by the employees of “Kauno švaros”.
Just before Easter, the people of Ššančiškės organized a protest action and called it “Shout of Good Friday”. During the event, on the pavement of Laisvės Alley, just below the windows of the Kaunas City Municipality, community members decorated more than 160 black crosses. According to the protest organizers, the trees would have been cut down if the controversial Nemunas embankment street project had been implemented.
However, the protest signs did not stay in the city center for long. Internet users around 3 pm shared photos on social media, showing that Kauno Švaras workers, who take care of the order of the city, washed all the black crosses on the granite slabs with water.
“Are you trying to hide the information that 160 trees will be cut down in the Nemunas embankment plaza when an unwanted street is built for the townspeople?”
Other danschisanos assured that the protest apparently would annoy the representatives of the municipality, reason why they were asked to wash all the crosses of the pavement.
Photo by Eitvydas Kinaitis
Kauno Diena recalls that the city municipality intends to build a two-lane street, extend a sidewalk and a bicycle lane on the Nemunas embankment. Representatives of the municipality explain that this will facilitate access to the river and that residents of the apartment buildings will no longer have to drive home on a dusty gravel road. A revised draft was recently submitted. He refused to build after getting along the entire embankment. Now it is proposed to pave the section from A. Juozapavičius avenue to 11th street in Kranto.
However, the Šančiai community is still convinced that people do not need such a project, because the beautiful natural coastline would be replaced by asphalt, noise and pollution would increase, which would have a negative impact on the birds that are they pose or overwinter in the Nemunas. embankment. The people of Šančiškės take the position that streets should be built where people want them, not where they don’t need them.
Žemieji Šančiai community Facebook photo
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