Bucharest Mayor Eyes Partnership With Skoda For Trams Maintenance

Oprescu met Prague’s Mayor Pavel Bem on Monday, and talked about the rehabilitation of the Historic Centre and the public transportation problem.

The Bucharest mayoralty wants to learn from the experience of the administration in Prague with regard to solving the public transport issue and to form a partnership between RATB and Skoda on the assemblage and the maintenance of Bucharest trams.

“It’s important to create a bilateral relation in this period of economic crisis, in order to create and continue joined projects. It’s important for the local administration representatives to discover sectors in which they can cooperate, such as infrastructure would be in this case,” Bem said, cited by a statement of the Bucharest mayoralty. The mayor of Prague showed interest in helping the action of the Bucharest mayor to rehabilitate the historic centre of Romania’s capital city, especially in getting European funds, “especially as the Czech Republic now holds the six-month presidency of the European Union, as of January 2009”. 

“We are interested in the way they have managed to rehabilitate the historic centre and we want to benefit from their experience, of the companies that have rebuilt Prague’s history. Moreover, we are interested in the urban architecture and the design of the street squares, as well as in the quality services Prague’s administration is offering citizens,” Oprescu said in the statement.

The two mayors decided to initiate procedures to sign an agreement for cooperation in several sectors, especially on economic and administrative problems.

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