Zagreb Mayor continues with his favourite project.
Three newly built fountains on the green belt close to the National and University Library in Zagreb, an addition to the existing two, have been officially tested on Saturday evening. They will be officially opened in early September, right before the parliamentary elections, and a special event will take place then, reports Poslovni.hr on July 24, 2016.
Although it was announced that the fountains will be put into a trial operation by the Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandić, he left this “task” to the quadruple world champions in rowing, brothers Martin and Valent Sinković, and the CEO of Zagreb Holding Ana Stojić Deban.
We have completed the project to build five fountains in five and a half years, Bandić told reporters. “Thank God that it is all over and that people have accepted it. I was confident from day one that they would be accepted, even when I was verbally ‘whipped’ and received two misdemeanour charges – I was acquitted of one and the same will probably happen with the other one very soon, but I do not want to comment on future decisions of the Court – and there are also two ulcers I got in the meantime. That is the cost of this project, but it is all of small importance compared to joy I am experiencing this evening together with the residents of Zagreb”, said Bandić.
He noted that now, after the fountains had been completed, the city administration will focus on “a cable car on the Sljeme mountain, city facades and the streetcar line to the airport and Velika Gorica”.
Dinko Bilić, head of the City Office of Physical Planning, Building, Construction, Utilities and Transport, added that the highest fountain stream is 15 metres. The cost of the works, together with landscaping, was 27 million kuna. Asked how much the maintenance will cost, Bilić stated that he would have that information after the public tender which was launched by the city administration.
