Residents can’t get comfortable in the city: left deceived?

Only one land reclamation ditch separates the residents of Šiauliai district. If you can go through the same bridge, the residents drive around by car to work every day.

« I work in Šiauliai, center. If I could go straight, it would be five minutes to work, and now I have to drive around, » said Veronika Andrulienė, a resident of Šiauliai district.

« Sometimes you have to go to the store. The closest shop on Birutės Street. To avoid going to the city, we go to Nursery – Birutės Street. But sometimes you forget to buy something and go around again, » said Mindaugas Mažeika, a resident of Šiauliai district.

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Thus, all residents of this street collected signatures and Šiauliai City Municipality asked for permission to build the road through the ditch. Followed the examples of nearby. Called as many as five installed permeability. In some places, not even to the street, but to their own plot.

« We want to set up for our own funds, but Šiauliai City Municipality has put on a veto. When a neighbor went to reconcile the question with a permeability request, he told one neighbor that everything was fine, noted the plan, said that we would get everything, » said Pranas Balčiūnas, a resident of Šiauliai district.

However, the municipality does not give permission, as there is no road in the district or urban spatial planning documents.

« If these two documents do not intend to connect from district street to city street, then there is no technical capabilities of connection conditions, » explained Eglė Bružienė, Head of Šiauliai City Economy and Environmental Division.

People feel cheated, disappointed because they expected permission, planned to set up the entrance and the city would be handed by hand.

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Does not understand who the entry would interfere with, says that traffic would be reduced.

« We drive around and find ourselves on the same street, which we want to enter directly. There are other plots that somehow have received permits, they are made, driving directly to the city, » said a resident Mindaugas Mažeika.

« In fact, people were building a house here for this – because of access, Šiauliai communications, a shop nearby, so that everything is nearby, » – said Donatas Zakarauskas, a resident of Šiauliai district.

Šiauliai municipality is reproaching that residents of the district knew well where they were buying their homes and what the street could enter. The architect asserts that the spatial planning documents need to be changed by incorporating an additional connection to the city. However, it can take a while and expensive.

« No solutions were provided for in the special transport plan, no connections from the city are provided.

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Once a culvert is installed, residents would easier to reach the city bus stop. It is right next to it, only the entry is complicated.

« People work in Šiauliai city, not everyone has two cars. Young families, bald fields, they are still creating. One person is on a car, another with a bus. The connection from the ring is the closest, so how to come home? » – resident Pranas Balčiūnas resented.

Residents are angry that they do not receive the help of Šiauliai Municipality when working in the city and bringing their children to the city schools.

« We are second -class, because here in Šiauliai district, we are villagers. You imagine? They are the townspeople, » said P. Balčiūnas.

Only, according to the municipality, residents can always make a request and express their desire to join the city, just as the former Žaliūkiai village of Šiauliai did a few years ago.