a month now Kiev in a state of shock. Namerzshy on the asphalt and sidewalks ice forced many drivers to leave cars parked either because of fear get in involuntary accident, or simply because of the inability to leave the yard. For local area that serve ZhEKi and district management utilities, steel for cars of this trap, and most urban highways or narrowed by almost two-fold, or turned into formless lumps of ice, from under which could be seen barely islands of asphalt.

summaries masquerading as meteorologist on the “unprecedented”, “unprecedented” snowfall and underfunding and accusing the townspeople of non-payment of utility bills, capital officials ignore the banal own responsibility for the upkeep of streets and yards in good condition. Lawyers urged Kiev to contact the management of consumer protection and public utilities to require recalculation of the rates for the services of utilities, and public authorities are threatening the City Hall officials Prosecutor General”s Office. After holding hostage three million of the city can no longer be explained by ordinary negligence.

rousing statements and swept the road

very first wave of major snowstorms that have struck in the capital on December 17, turned the city into a big snowball. In the capital”s Department of Motor Vehicles, however, assured that during the heavy snowfall in the number of accidents on the roads of Kiev even decreased. With a daily average of 260-270 crash in these days due to high concentration of experienced drivers and left parked car novices, this figure had dropped to 225, and during the Christmas holidays - up to 75 accidents. Under the “lucky” doctors: from 17 December to 14 January in an emergency station turned almost 14,5 thousand people, of which on the icy roads and sidewalks affected almost 5,5 thousand

not to say that Snow is not done at all. On the third-fourth day of snowfall here and there on the streets of Technology has begun to emerge. But what we witnessed on the roads of the city during the last month, can not be compared with the bravura reports published in the municipality-controlled press, as well as on sites KSCA and municipal corporations Kyivavtodor. For example, according to the spacecraft, in the daytime during the period of bad weather on the roads of the capital employed from 250 to 300 pieces of snow-removing and auxiliary equipment, and at night - 230-250. Her press office says that every three hours was carried out processing of the carriageway at that a month was spent 18,4 thousand tons of salt, 6,1 tons peskosolyanoy mixture and 0.72 tons of friction materials. But 30 thousand tons - the total amount of strategic reserve of the city, which last year was more than enough for the whole winter. “More involved graders road-building organizations to expand the roadway, and road maintenance staff to clear areas of pedestrian crossings, pavements and public transport,” - said in a corporation.
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alleys hiding those same AUTODOR 250-300 pieces of equipment, it is not clear. From the condition of streets, did not help and graders. In previous years, in Kiev, and this winter during a disaster in the southern regions of the country to clear the roads actively helped the military. They acted much more effectively than the city”s cleaners. But the city authorities for unknown reasons decided to heavy equipment and soldiers involved. Although it was just a case of lax municipal street cleaners without harsh discipline, extra hands and technical capacities were helpless.

What roads and were perfectly cleared, and sometimes even sprinkled with sand and salt, so this line, which moved higher in Kiev and government officials. The best way to get here could along the route leading from Boryspil and Training Center, as well as on some roads in the center. Even such key artery as brochures Victory Vozdukhoflotsky Brovarskyi, Reunions and Dnieper embankment, “thanks to” clean-up lost because of the piles of snow on the side of one or two lanes in each direction, which immediately affected the speed and quality of movement. And where was scattered more than half of urban reserves of salt and other reagents, for residents of the capital remained a mystery. The main thing - money well spent.
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Kyivavtodor “justified: that, first of all cleaned the main roads and streets that moves public transport. In Kyivpastrans confirmed: the movement of public carriers are not stopped. However, the townspeople, who were trying these days to get out of the sleeping area to the underground public transport, confirm that the buses and trolley buses were delayed for tens of minutes. Because many roads instead of four lanes in one direction left for one or two, and two-lane turned into a narrow-gauge railway, at the entrance to which drivers passing each other, idle hours. Along the sidewalks grew lumps of snow mixed with mud, and carelessly parked by the side of cars were laden with snow, without any prospects to get to thaw. According to reports, many of them KSCA raised and transferred evacuators. But it is doubtful whether this concerned the multi-ton wagons, which have traditionally chosen intra-roads on the outskirts of the city as places of sludge. Until surrounding territory and mezhkvartalnyh passages in public services during the month of hands have never reached, and the drivers and pedestrians were they real test of maneuverability.

Funding to do with it

According to officials, more justification for their sluggishness. The first - an unprecedented amount of rain over the past 40 years. But if you remember the cold winter of 2005-2006. When the temperature in the capital dropped to -30 degrees, and rainfall was close to the present, the same amount of equipment and funding made it possible to quickly solve the problem of clearing the streets. And if the road services and ZhEKi not rushed to fight until the third or fourth day of bad weather, and initially supported the purity of the roads and courtyards, the problems would be much less. If the snow had indeed been such an unprecedented, then why not go to the unprecedented action and does not involve cleaning the army? However, as stated last week, the Defense Ministry, no city or district officer to him with such a request is not addressed.

The second factor, which nod to Kyivavtodor “- subsidies. “The work that must finance districts (local roads, clear the area offices that corporation - Road Maintenance Management), received only 75% of the necessary funds. The worst things in Svyatoshinsky, Crypt and the Shevchenko district - they have paid no more than 60% of the needs. Allocation will last us until the end of January, “- said a spokesman for” Kiev-AUTODOR Anatoly Galinovsky. “Of the 11 million grn. For the maintenance of roads in 2009, we received a total 8.2 million As a result, if necessary 5 thousand tons of salt have been able to procure only 2 tons, of course, we were forced to reduce the number of clean the streets and confine those where the pubic transport “, - said the Head of Daewoo Svyatoshinskiy district Sergei Kanevsky.

In areas of underfunding explain anything: too large seizures in the city budget shortfall of taxes and fees, as well as low pay for public services. But in recent years one of the highest in the country the level of payment for communal in the capital (80-90%) to cope with the consequences of blizzards and snowstorms. And since even the increase in tariffs this winter does not bring the desired effect, then the funding is clearly not to blame.

Rents can not pay?

If urban roads cleaned at least poorly and selectively, the majority of households were buried under a thick layer of ice and snow. Moreover, their condition does not depend on the area, nor on the size of the house (the longer the building, the more house territory), nor on the presence or absence in the service of his ZhEKe technology. Janitors only occasionally waving shovels - mainly in the vicinity of points of sale of alcohol outdoors. And talk about sifting of ice on the sidewalks with salt or sand for residents of apartment buildings is a nervous giggle.

“In Kiev, instead of 9 thousand janitors working less than 7 thousand, and their technical equipment fell far short of the European level” - justified by the SU Chief of Housing KCSA Vladimir Storozhenko. “ZhEKi never received compensation from the municipality for the difference in tariffs. And the rent is not enough for garbage removal, maintenance of lifts and payroll,” - said a member of the Standing Committee of the City Council on Housing, Vladislav Yartsev.

But the real reason for “non-European” state capital houses - porters laxity and lack of control over their work by the leaders of the housing and maintenance offices. After cleaning local area is the direct responsibility ZhEKov, and it is on this service are between 40 to 70% of the rent they receive.

lawyers argue that spur to action may be public utilities. For example, they are advised to require the recalculation of accrued payments. “The first and easiest way to fix that cleaning services at local area is not available - file a complaint with the Office of Consumer Protection or zhilkommuninspektsiyu. Of course, this is unlikely to finish clearing the yard, but at least, will testify in court. After all, if you try to make acts of one on one with the master ZHEK, he probably just refuse to sign them, “- told the managing partner of law firm and Vasko Nazarchuk Vadim Vasko.

Although, according to him, to prosecute because of the 40-50 UAH. that can be saved through recalculation, it is inappropriate. Therefore, we can simply write a statement of claim by the recalculation of the housing and operating the office. If the utility does not want to meet independently recalculate the rate for the maintenance of the house and surrounding territory on the basic decision of the Cabinet of Ministers № 529 dated May 20, 2009 and deducted from the cleaning component of the period when the caretaker is not touched a shovel snow.

Agree with this approach, and in public housing and communal authorities. “We found a massive failure ZhEKami its functions, which is a huge amount of evidence in the form of acts of checks and photographs of entire albums. Stolichnaya government fails to meet its obligations and, therefore, should at least recover some of the money people paid for housing and communal services, counted them in the form of payment for the next month “, - said the chief of the inspection Alexander Mazurchak.
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ZhEKah, of course, lamenting that such an approach altogether may be left without services janitor. Perhaps this is the first step toward the emergence of new OSMD, where the caretaker hires and fires the rule, which, in turn, hires and fires the tenants, not the city authorities. Meanwhile, the structure of public services in the capital chiefly subject KSCA, refusal to fulfill their own duties will be distributed throughout the vertical.

“Snow in any case be taken out of the city. If the mayor lacked the technical capacity to cope with this problem, we recommend her to bring to remove snow forces MOE, the Ministry of Defense and private companies. A selection of this money - a sacred duty of Kiev leadership “, - said Mr. Mazurchak. Otherwise, he said, state inspection apply to the Prosecutor”s Office with a complaint for failure to comply KCSA their regular duties. And while this is the only thing that the central government can affect the city.

 

Alex Nabozhnyak

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