Itani does not agree with the Beirut Traffic Management Board

Sources in the Beirut Municipality confirmed in an interview with Al-Akhbar that "the mayor of the city, Jamal Itani, insisted that the municipality does not prepare a book of special conditions for the installation and operation of parking meters in the streets of Beirut.

The newspaper "Al-Akhbar" emphasizes that "the decision of the city council to charge a consultant to install and operate new meters raises many questions, because the current problems (which belong to the municipality) are always in good condition and are at the origin of the installation of new meters.Conditions relating to the size of a particular investor? ".

For its part, denied the sources of the Traffic Management Authority has received any request in this regard. She stressed "her total willingness to provide the municipality with specifications" and that it does not stick to the project, but only to the expenses related to the traffic lights in view of the fact. impossibility to increase the budget.

She warned that the municipality's decision to cancel the contract threatened to stop all the road signs in Beirut and in the traffic control room and spoil the World Bank loan in the context of of the project "Development of Urban Transport in the Greater Beirut" led by the Council for Development and Reconstruction. She pointed out that "monthly revenues ranging from $ 9 million to $ 12 million are used to pay the salaries of 100 employees, including the employees of the private meter company, as well as the remaining $ 4 billion to cover the costs. traffic control room expenses and surveillance and signaling cameras, the Ministry of Finance does not bear any of the expenses of the Authority. "

Informed sources felt that the legal dispute over the "bar code" and its timing was a political explanation. "The steering committee has always been a golden hen and the movement for the future benefits since its leadership in 2014 was transferred to Huda Saloum, a member of the current movement, and to Nuseiba, one of his deputies. " She noted that with the approach of administrative appointments, it is certain that this post will go to the Free Patriotic Movement. Therefore, the movement for the future, through the municipality, decided to waive the order to restore the meters in the municipality.