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Skopje City Hall keeps its silence on idea for suburban rail transit in capital of North Macedonia

The 4-decade long idea of introducing suburban rail transit as an addition to the bus public transportation system in Skopje isn't welcomed with open arms by the current city authorities. The Skopje Region has 95 km of railroad track at its disposal which isn't sufficiently utilized at the moment, in a situation when the road infrastructure is overloaded. As...

Several months after cleanup, river Vardar’s bank near Trubarevo turned into illegal landfill again [Photo gallery]

Only several months after the City of Skopje intervened at the former location of the Vardarishte landfill, pulling down the illegal gateways along the river Vardar, the river bank starting from Vardarishte toward Trubarevo village, was again tuned into an enormous landfill. Trucks, wagons, and vans are accessing the location using the roads from Lisiche, then passing the iron...

The ruling party and the opposition in North Macedonia disagree on the proposed BRT for Skopje

After four months in "the parliamentary labyrinths", Government's draft law for taking a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for construction of two Bus Rapid Transit lines in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, yesterday finally passed through the Financing and Budget Committee's filters. The Government finalized the draft-law for rapid bus transit (RBT) in mid-November...

The Park & Ride terminals for solving the parking issue in Skopje will wait for the new Master Plan

The building of passenger transportation terminals in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, will have to wait for the new Master Urban Plan for 2022-2032. The popular Park & Ride terminals were promised a decade ago, but until today, the entrance terminals in Skopje which would have allowed the visitors to park their vehicles there and then travel wit ...

One mustn’t even pick a flower in Matka, let alone pilot a motorboat

Piloting motorboats on Lake Matka, in the canyon of River Treska, is strictly banned and the Decision to declare Matka a monument of nature, that was passed in 1994 by City of Skopje's Council determines that only electrically powered boats can traverse the canyon. According to the Decision that was published in the Official Gazette of the City of...

With or without new coronavirus, problems of the bicyclists in North Macedonia persist (VIDEO)

The question about the extent of the importance of bicycles as a means of transportation for North Macedonia's citizens returned again with the rise of the numbers of COVID-19 infection cases. The coronavirus' rapid spread through close contacts has led to serious difficulties in the functioning of public transportation in the cities, including an increased interest by the people...

The new eco-buses hit the streets of Skopje (photogallery)

The new LPG gas-powered eco-buses, produced by the German company MAN, have hit the streets of Skopje today. The city authorities inform that the drivers of the new buses, which will service the lines No 2, 5, 15, and 57, have been properly trained by a certified driver-instructor from Croatia. A single eco-bus can save up to 25.000 EUR in...

COVID-19 caused a loss of 11.6 million passengers and 4.5 million EUR to the public transportation in Skopje (infographic)

The coronavirus pandemic has had an enormous negative effect on the functioning of public transportation in Skopje and the Public Transportation Company-Skopje (Javno soobrakjajno pretprijatie - Skopje - JSP -Skopje). The long lockdown hours, closed schools, and colleges, many people working from their homes, including people's fears to use public transportation, in a period of three months have caused...

Government decides Saturday be a working day for all institutions that did not work on May 7, the day of the Pope’s visit

At the last session, the Government made a decision that the 8th of June (Saturday) will be a working day in order to compensate for the 7th of May, a day that was declared non-working, due to the visit of Pope Francis. “That means that the 8th of June will be a working day for all those working in the...

Fines of €8,000 to €20,000 for four of Skopje’s polluters after unannounced inspections

In December, environmental inspectors from the City of Skopje carried out eight unannounced inspections in industrial buildings that are under the city’s authority, after emissions of harmful gases in four of them were confirmed, say the city inspectorate regarding the activities of inspections related to the handling of air pollution. Polluters, whose names will not be published by the City...

After two years, the city of Skopje plans to update its registry of polluters

The city of Skopje has made its first step in the procedure of updating an integrated registry of polluters of the environment in the city of Skopje. The Electronic system of public procurements (ESJN) published an advertisement for collecting offers for updating this registry and the city of Skopje has estimated that it would take 508.400 denars. All parties have...

Shilegov: It was not just the “Mercedes”, there were VIP cabins in the cable cars on Vodno

Today, the Mayor of Skopje, Petre Shilegov posted photos on his Facebook profile of VIP cabins from the Millennium Cross’s cable cars, which where purchased by the previous government, and as he says, were not for the general use of the public. “It was not just the ‘Mercedes’.... the VIP cabins in the cable cars, were not for general use”,...

Shilegov: The place for a Panoramic Wheel is in an amusement park, not the riverbed of Vardar

The centre of Skopje is not an amusement park, and the place for a panoramic wheel is in an amusement park, and not by the riverbed of the Vardar river, stated SDSM candidate for mayor of the City of Skopje, Petre Shilegov. He said that if he becomes mayor, he will consult the public with expertise on all decisions. “That way...

7,882 citizens sign a petition against the construction of the Ferris Wheel

7,882 citizens have signed a petition against the construction of the Ferris Wheel in Skopje, and it was submitted to the Mayor of Skopje, Koce Trajanovski. The petition, which requires the construction of the Ferris wheel to stop, today appeared on social networks, and as you can see from the document, it has been filed and archived by the services...

We want clean air, not a panoramic wheel and bohemian streets, say eco-activists

The introduction of a special traffic regime for vehicles, free public transportation all winter, more inspections, a penalty of 10 years imprisonment for destruction of any kind of vegetation, stop all projects like the Panoramic wheel, bohemian streets and styrofoam facades, and the re-direction of finances for the treatment of people that are sick due to air-pollution. These are...

City of Skopje: Do not open your windows, it’s polluted!

To prevent air pollution, the City of Skopje is urging citizens to use public transport, and not to use their vehicles unless necessary. Also, instead of one person per car, the public should consider travelling together in vehicles, to avoid congestion. The City of Skopje is appealing to the public to reduce their movement outdoors, and only travel if necessary....

The Ferris Wheel will keep turning until the government says enough!

Work on the Ferris Wheel continues today, even though yesterday Parliament adopted conclusions that funds from the state budget will be taken from the construction of such objects, and if necessary, be re-allocated to deal with the consequences of the floods that hit Skopje and the surrounding areas. Journalists from "Meta" today noticed workers where the Ferris wheel is being...

City of Skopje: Today’s protest was an ugly political game

Today's protest in front of the City of Skopje's administrative building, entitled "Koce, give us back our streets," we believe to be a distasteful political game conducted by the organizers, responded officials from the City of Skopje. "I really do not understand the need for blatant lying to the public that the City of Skopje or the Mayor are responsible...

City of Skopje sent support for the relief effort in Tetovo

City of Skopje sent a professional team, technical support and machines in the relief effort following the floods in Tetovo and the surrounding region, following torrential rains there. The Public Works company Vodovod i Kanalizacija and the Public company for communal hygiene sent two water-drawing trucks, seven water trucks, three fire trucks equipped with powerful pumps for drawing water, as...

Electronic charge cards for riding the public transit system are available from today

Starting yesterday, users of the Skopje public transit can use electronic tickets to pay for the fare. Skopje’s mayor Koce Trajanovski and the director of the public transit company (JPS) Igor Janushev, visited today the offices of JSP Turs where is located one of the eight offices where the electronic cards can be obtained. - Besides the use of the new...