Wrote: Etrit Rexhepi
The Mayor of Pristina, Përparim Rama, has published (February 7) the project that connects Arbërija with the Youth Palace and the Grand Hotel.
Mayor Rama, in the initial presentation of this project during the 2021 election campaign, had promised that it would be implemented within three years.
After research by hibrid.info, differences have been found between the project promised in the 2021 local election campaign and the one presented two days ago (February 7).
Analyze:
Through research through search engines, hibrid.info has found the project for connecting the Arbëria neighborhood with the Youth Palace and the Grand Hotel, initially presented on October 2, 2021, in the local election campaign, by Përparim Rama as a candidate for mayor of Prishtina (see here).
The project envisaged the creation of a green connecting platform, from the Youth Palace, over the inner ring road to the Arbëria neighborhood. In this area, the construction of the Concert Hall as well as underground parking lots serving this facility, the Youth Palace and the football stadium was also envisaged.
While in the project presented on February 7, 2024, found by hibrid.info, it is noted that the space dedicated to the green connecting platform does not include the parking lot of the Youth Palace, a part of which was intended to be used for the construction of this connecting space (see here).
Also, in the recently published project, the envisaged Concert Hall facility does not appear, and it is not clear whether there will be underground parking, as promised in the election campaign by Mayor Rama.
Based on additional research by hibrid.info, the project for the Concert Hall was found (see here), the site for the construction of which is planned to be near the former “Gërmia” department store (see here).
Hibrid.info assesses the differences between the project promised during the election campaign to connect the Arbëria neighborhood with the Youth Palace and the Grand Hotel and the one presented during the governing mandate by Mayor Përparim Rama as different positions on solving the problem.
Conclusion:
The project for connecting the Arbëria neighborhood with the Youth Palace and the Grand Hotel, by the mayor of Pristina, differs from the one that was published during the election campaign by the latter.
Hibrid.info has confirmed that unlike the initial project, the new plan lacks the planned Concert Hall and there is less space for the connecting green space.
Based on the methodology of work on the sustainability category, hibrid.info evaluates the change of this project by Mayor Rama as an unsustainable statement.
Rating:
The assessment of stability is given based on a comparison between the current and previously publicly stated views of political actors. If positions on an issue do not change during the public engagement of the monitored person, such statements are assessed as stable. Whereas if there has been a significant change in positions, such statements are assessed as unstable.