Tirana City Council member Dorian Teliti has warned of a deep crisis in urban transport, stating that the service is on the verge of paralysis and risks being interrupted.
According to him, public transport associations have officially announced the suspension of the service, while local and central institutions have not reacted in time to address the situation.
In a post on social media, Teliti accuses the majority in the Municipal Council of refusing to include the discussion on managing the urban transport crisis on the agenda, describing this as a lack of will to address the problem.
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URBAN TRANSPORT IN TIRANA ON THE THRESHOLD OF PARALYSIS – THIS HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT AND MUNICIPALITY DO NOT REACT AND ABANDON THE SECTOR!
While today the public transport associations officially announced the interruption of service from next week, at the City Council meeting a few days ago, the socialist majority rejected my request to include on the agenda a discussion on: "the lack of crisis management in the capital's urban transport."
The reality is clear: the service is heading towards economic collapse and citizens are paying the cost of mismanagement and lack of vision.
Therefore, today two calls are extremely important:
1. The government should urgently reduce fuel taxes. There can be no sustainable public transport when Albania bears the highest fiscal burden in the region on oil. A fiscal policy is needed that directly reduces the cost of service, so that this burden does not go either to the citizen's ticket or to the bankruptcy of the lines.
2. I call on the socialist councilors of the Capital to put aside the arrogance of the cardboard and urgently convene the Municipal Council in an extraordinary session. To achieve full transparency on the activity, challenges, needs of the sector and to make courageous decisions for concrete support to market operators. Public transport is not a luxury, but a right and a vital need.
If we do not react, urban transport in Tirana will very quickly go towards complete collapse. The capital cannot be governed by turning a deaf ear to the alarms that sound every day!
