On Monday 14th July, the new temporary car park at the Markopoulou Barracks site south of the Chania city centre was opened to vehicles. It will be remembered that this has been the subject of vociferous protests by locals who are determined that the whole of the 52 stremmata area made over to the Council by the Ministry of Defence should become a public park, and are moreover suspicious that any temporary arrangement is likely to become permanent.
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The search for new parking spaces in Chania
With the constant pressure to find more parking space in Chania for both residents and visitors to the city, the Chania Municipal Council is continually seeking new sites which can be pressed into service, if only temporarily, as car parks. Following the opening of the first peripheral car park at Kladissos just a year ago – which has proved a great success with its free electric bus rides to the city centre – there has been little evidence until recently of progress on the further three such car parks planned, for which sites have to be found, land purchased and compensation agreed with the owners.
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Urban and local planning issues have arisen on the sites earmarked for the creation of peripheral car parks in Chania, while the Municipal Authority seems intent on pursuing its plan to use part of the former Markopoulou barracks as a provisional parking lot until the project for its transformation into a park gets under way. In the meantime, sweeping changes in traffic management within the city are envisaged in the Municipality’s Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP), which is to be implemented over a ten-year period.
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