For dangerous bridge The report of the show “The Decades” on SKAI at the old Hellenic Airport on Vouliagmeni Avenue on the stream to Glyfada is referring to deterioration and rusty irons.

In particular, exclusively shots of the broadcast show columns at the base of the bridge in poor condition, rotten irons, while characteristic plants climb a pillar, with pieces peeling off.

“Not only is the rusty equipment of the bridge. There is also a huge table tennis pong of responsibilities between the Region of Attica and the Municipality of Hellenic Argyroupolis. And in 2019, when we had raised the matter to the competent Directorate of Metropolitan Infrastructure Management of the Region of Attica, they take no responsibility for this bridge, although the Attica Metropolitan Infrastructure Management has enlightened the bridges, it has installed sensors that measure them measuring them. Stressing the bridge in several places of the central bridges … But for this particular bridge it does not take responsibility and jurisdiction … because we do not forget that Pantelis Pantelides’ accident in 2016. It has been 16 years and no one takes the Responsibility .. this bridge is not touched by it, it is a gray zone. The iron that pierced Pantelides is still on the spot. Because if at least one technician goes with the wheel cutting the iron, it means that if the municipality or the region sends it, he has also taken on the responsibility of the bridge, “Kimonas Logothetis, a road safety adviser and a traffic education professor, told the show.

He also noted that “we do not have a single digital bridge register. This is now being prepared by the Ministry of Digital Governance. It starts in March and will be completed in November … As the Land Registry will have all the bridges. We have over 6,000 bridges belonging to public, government agencies and another 4,000 bridges belonging to the concessionaires. “

Plant: There is no issue of bridge collapse

A clear position on the need to clarify the responsibilities between the State, Municipalities and Self -Government, but also on the strong will of the Regional Authority to take actions – even to overcome its close powers – to enhance the safety of the road network and Improving the daily lives of the citizens, Attica Regional Governor Nikos Chardalias, in his intervention in the SKAI “Denas” broadcast, as part of a report on problems presented on a bridge on Avenue Vouliagmeni.

“If there is a man who has proven that he is not hiding behind any responsibility, you will allow me to say that I am me,” Mr Chardalias said, stressing that from the first time there was information on problems on the bridge, the techniques competent. Services of the Attica Region have taken action, despite the fact that there is a legal gap in terms of its maintenance. As he said, three autopsies were carried out, in the presence of a NTUA expert and a preliminary design has already been finalized, and there is a collaboration with the Mayor of Hellenic – Argyroupolis to find a definitive solution, and clarified that there is no issue of collapse of the bridge, while noting that “it is” unhappy. Many years and we need to intervene. “

Referring to the overlap of responsibilities, the Regional Governor noted that he must stop “the ball of the easy transfer of responsibilities to self -government”, stressing that in 2020, after the opinion of the State Legal Council, the jurisdiction of the Attica Bridges. “Without any consultation, one night. We are now talking about 108 bridges, which has not built any of them from the Attica Region. Even the designs and construction studies do not have them in our hands. And I am not discussing the money that is needed to maintain all these bridges to be maintained, ”he said. Responding to objections to executives of the previous administration of the Region, he pointed out that there had been no action to improve the security conditions on the Attica Bridges in the past: “Half a bridge has been maintained? Has any act we have found ready to be able to build the issue of maintenance and especially the particular issue of citizens’ security? ” Mr. Chardalias mentioned.

Despite the legal gaps in the responsibilities, the Regional Governor emphasized that the district’s services would immediately make the necessary interventions to enhance the static bridge, while stressing the willingness of the Regional Authority to take initiatives for citizens’ security, even where it did not. It has clear legal obligations. He even mentioned as an example the cleaning of Kifissos’s packed, as he pointed out, the new administration did not follow the tug of responsibilities between the previous and the state, taking immediate action, which resulted in the removal of more than 37,000 tonnes of materials. thus ensuring the maximum drainage of the river.

“I’m not in an office, I’m in the field. Outside I am every day. You will allow me to remain an active citizen. So on the issue, the answer is who will solve the problem, ”Mr Chardalias concluded in his speech.