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On Tuesday, the government chancellor, Algirdas Stončaitis, presented the proposals of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports on the development of the soccer infrastructure in the capital. One of them is to develop a fourth category soccer stadium in Naujoji Vilnia, Karklų street.
Read more: Government Chancellor: The national stadium in Vilnius will probably be, but perhaps not in Šeškinė, but in Naujoji Vilnia
The Vilnius chief architect also reacted to the idea of building a Vilnius national or main football stadium in Naujoji Vilnia. He called that reasoning on Facebook meaningless.
“This doesn’t make sense. You can’t make the main object of the city in such a difficult location to transport. The worst thing is that sustainable mobility is at a disadvantage.” 15 minutes M.Pakalnis commented.
Irmantas Gelūnas / 15min photo / Images from New Vilnius
According to him, the majority of Vilnius residents live in the northwest districts, and Naujoji Vilnia is in the southeast part, so residents must cross the city.
“Public transport will travel to Naujoji Vilnia for too long, rail will not be used, because it is still necessary to change at the station. Then it will turn out that people will sit in a private car each and we will have a concert, which will take him to ride 30 thousand at a time, cars. Then we’ll see what our city and New Vilnius will become, ” 15 minutes He spoke, adding that the newcomers would build cars in the yards of district residents.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Mindaugas Pakalnis
Defending the now planned site on the Šeškinė hill, M.Pakalnis explained that the residents of Šeškinė, Fabijoniškės and Viršuliškės could easily be reached on foot.
“On Šeškinė Hill, we can expect at least half of the visitors to be able to walk or arrive by public transport in 20 minutes. We still have synergies with a nearby supermarket. A place like Naujoji Vilnia will block all Kojelavičiaus Street and it will all be over. Its bandwidth is 1,000 cars per hour, “he said.
According to M. Pakalnis, the proposal to build a stadium in Naujoji Vilnia is incompetent.
“There may be a soccer school, a soccer club stadium, and all of this is understood in terms of maintaining the vitality of the area. But displaying a Lithuanian attraction there, in such an uncomfortable area, is a completely illogical and unreasonable proposition. And randomly “, he is convinced.
Irmantas Gelūnas / 15min photo / Images from New Vilnius
Blamed each other
15 minutes recalls that last Thursday the Mayor of Vilnius, Remigijus Šimašius, announced the collapse of the National Stadium project. The head of the capital accused the government of the Union of Peasants and Greens of Lithuania of this.
Last Wednesday, the Office of Public Procurement (VPN) sent a letter to the municipality directing it to discontinue 156 million. tender for the construction and concession of a national stadium worth EUR. In a subsequent press conference, R. Šimašius said he would demand damages and that the stadium project would have to be re-prepared.
Read more here: Remigijus Šimašius: peasants and greens killed the national stadium.
Later on Thursday, the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court rejected the municipality’s complaint on Thursday. The court ruled that VPT had legally suspended the signing of the concession agreement for the construction and administration of the National Stadium between the municipality of Vilnius and Axis Industries, a company of Icor concern.
Jovita Petkuvienė, acting head of the Public Procurement Service, claimed that the service operated independently, within its competence, and that it was certainly not influenced by any political force.
Prime Minister S. Skvernelis regretted the comments of the Vilnius mayor about the failed tender for the construction and concession of the National Stadium. He also stated that the government could take over the project.
Read more here: Prime Minister R.Šimašius deplores the comments about the stadium deplorable, the project can be taken over by the Government.
Alternatives presented
On Friday, S. Skvernelis instructed the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports to examine the need for infrastructure for the development of football in Vilnius and until 2020. May 26 present to the Government Office possible alternatives for its development.
In presenting the conclusions of the Ministry, A. Stončaitis presented several variants. Firstly, redesigning the architectural part to build a stadium on the Šeškinė hill.
“Another alternative is that the Lithuanian national soccer team could play the highest level matches at the Kaunas Stadium, which would be sufficient to develop a fourth-category soccer stadium in Vilnius, not a national one. There are differences in volume and This could be the stadium of the Lithuanian Football Federation on Stadiono street, after expanding it and finding an agreement with the Vilnius City Municipality, or developing a fourth category football stadium in Naujoji Vilnia, Karklų street The territory is 17 ha, you can add an additional 4 ha “, – A.Stončaitis taught alternatives at the conference held on Tuesday.
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