Bucharest Strategic Concept 2035 (CSB) proposes to formulate a vision of the city, a harmonisation of the main factors which lead to its development based on the balance between economic growth, the preservation and turning into account of the natural and cultural patrimony, the respect for the environment and life quality. In this context, the promotion of public transport plays a major role, as well as improved accessibility to mass transport.
Until now, two of the three phases have been finalized including the documents and the elaboration of expertise reports, major strategic directions on the territorial dimension of development and the development of the capital as city, sub-strategies, policies, programmes and projects, as well as the marketing and institutional plan.
“We cannot talk about the sustainable development of Bucharest without a strategic planning, without a short, medium and long-run term. Bucharest has to become an influential metropolis, integrated in Europe through sustainability and character, intelligently and sensitively reinvented, an open and evolved community, a dynamic and creative capital”, believes the General Mayor of the Romanian Capital, Sorin Oprescu.
The strategy will pay special attention to the transport modes with reduced impact on the environment emphasizing the development of underground transport (the transport mode which consumes the least public space) and of surface transport modes with high landscape potential such as tram networks.
Bucharest’s attractiveness both for visitors, citizens or investors is affected by low accessibility caused by reduced and poor road and railway infrastructure and the lack of regional railway systems affect the connection of the city with its supporting and influence territory or large transport corridors, but gene-rates major car traffic bottlenecks inside the city. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that, through the phases of the project, the use and development of a sustainable public transport system will be increased, as well as the efficiency of the infrastructure, involving the extension of the road and the railway system of corridors, including the development of the high-speed line. On short, the Romanian capital needs the reshaping of the metropolitan public transport system.
“Organising transport on the entire territory needs an integrated planning and management, the organisation of intermodal poles and a complex territorial coverage for increasing accessibility. Moreover, transports need reshaping and, depending on the objectives for improving the quality of urban environment, the protection and turning into account of the architectural patrimony”, believes Prof. PhD Architect Mihaela Negulescu, responsible for the urban mobility section of the Strategy.
Accessibility is a determining factor in choosing to use public transport and for this, “the use of individual cars has to be reduced by passing a specific legislation and ensuring qua-lity public transport services to provide the citizens with alternatives to individual motorized vehicles. Also, setting intermodal points for increasing accessibility and giving people more options plays an important role in improving accessibility”, believes Prof. PhD Architect Mircea Enache, President of EMI Systems.
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