Dubrovnik is stepping it up a notch in order to ensure order in the UNESCO city’s historic core.
As Dubrovacki Dnevnik reports on the 23rd of September, 2017, at the last session of the City Council, Dubrovnik’s Mayor Mato Franković announced the restoration of the pillars in the Ploče (eastern entrance to the Old City) area in order to introduce a better level of order and to prevent chaos within the city’s historic core.
Like the majority of Dubrovnik, Ploče has a one way traffic system, it also has a few shops, a bakery, a school, a cafe, two restaurants, a taxi rank, a bus stop and a delivery drop off point all within an extremely small, hardly manageable area, making this spacially limited location almost as difficult to deal with as Pile.
This new move primarily regards delivery vehicles which are often seen to be causing tremendous traffic flow problems in the area, particularly during the busier summer months.
A higher level of supply control within the historic core for next season will be established, this includes a time limit for delivery vehicles within the walls and the tighter monitoring of the legislation governing the matter, the imposition of traffic pillars at Ploče gate is only one step in that direction. The city administration states that contactless user cards for vehicles will be the solution.
As stated by the City Council, the aim is to establish a higher level of control over the entry and exit of delivery and all other vehicles in Dubrovnik’s historic core. Access will be granted to all registered users via contactless cards issued by the competent administrative department. Each user will have an established time slot for entry and exit so that vehicles are properly monitored and proper order is upheld within the walls. Of course, these restrictions will not apply to vehicles used by the emergency services and the like.
