27 August 2020
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 […]
24 July 2020
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 […]
10 July 2020
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 […]
2 July 2020
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 […]
6 June 2019
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 […]
8 January 2019
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 […]
7 November 2018
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 […]
25 November 2017
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, […]
29 September 2017
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 […]
11 February 2017
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 […]
28 December 2016
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 […]
22 November 2016
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, […]
15 August 2016
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 […]
26 September 2015
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 […]
4 August 2015
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 […]
1 August 2015
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. – […]
27 April 2015
A meeting of the services of the City of Skopje, on which are arranged the possible assistance of the city for solidarity which will be sent to Nepal, which on Saturday was hit by a devastating earthquake that killed more than 3,000 people, is ongoing, confirmed spokesman of City of Skopje Nedelcho Krstevski for META. […]
