Igor Meshov

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Old Lvov will release for pedestrians
25.06.2007

”For four years lvovjane do not learn the city. They will forget about holes in streets, stoppers on roads, winter without hot water.” The euro-2012 ”will help Lvov to turn from the provincial started small town to an advanced East Europe megacity”, — the main architect of Lvov Jury Krivoruchko, assures 52 years. In 2012 in Lvov two matches of continental superiority on football will take place. The city will accept hundred thousand foreign tourists and football fans. It is necessary to construct new stadiums, hotels, parkings. The main thing — to solve urgent problems: to provide qualitative heat - and water supply, to order transport movement.

For four years Lvov will receive 40 annual budgets of investments — nearby 9 mlrd grn. — It is impossible to lose any investor, — the assistant to the main architect 58-year-old Alexander Jarema speaks. — Businessmen are involved with ancient Lvov. Here recently there came Israelis. Wished to build hotels in Odessa but when have seen our city — have decided to throw an anchor here. Now architects with experts from institute "Градопроект" and Kiev "Dnepromosta" work over correction of the General plan of Lvov and adjoining territories.

— For last years in Lvov manufacture has decreased, but togrovlja, tourism promptly develops. — what will be Lvov 2012? Alexander Jarema displays a map of Lvov on a table. — here, — shows on area in the end of street Strijsky, — at once behind a hippodrome there will be a centre of sports-entertainment constructions — the big covered stadium on 32 thousand places and expocentre "Галэкспоплаза". Nearby will construct a hotel complex. To "Euro-2012" private concerns can construct in Lvov about twenty hotels. Two-three of them — five-stars.

It is necessary to take down some private houses the Majority — an average level, because basically tourists — people young, rather poor. — to reduce residing cost, it is necessary to do hotel rooms small, in them it is possible to establish even two-story beds. In Europe the similar have already started to practise, — speaks JArema. Near a complex there can be a big complex construction of institutions of justice. Here plan to move all legal structures. Will construct also the big medical centre.

— The trains going from abroad, will not stand any more hours in Mostiskah, and to come into Lvov. Here it will be possible to change and go further on the east, — tells JArema. — the Terminal reconstruct, luggage spaces, booths will hide under the earth. The director of department of town-planning of the Lvov city council Igor Pavliv has informed, that would be expedient to construct from border with Poland to Lvov a narrow West European track (1435 mm).

"When to look at this problem from the point of view of our railwaymen, of course, it it would not would be desirable anything to change", - he has told. But in case of building of a narrow track in Lvov the quantity of tourists will increase. "Tourists from Europe go on the east, reach to peremyshlja (Poland) and do not go to Ukraine as change" is necessary, - he has told. Also building of such track will allow to accelerate road to tourists whom namereny to visit European championship matches on football of 2012, consider in Lvov.

To "Euro-2012" in Lvov reconstruct the started sports complexes "Youth", "Spartak", "SKA". Will order zones of rest with tennis courts, athletic fields in Vinnikovsky, Brjuhovitsky and all Lvov parks. For fans will allocate four fans-zones with the big screens on which will broadcast matches. — Lvovjanam there is nothing to worry, that "Euro-2012" will deprive our city of its romanticism, architectural value, — notices JArema. — Lvov remains the cultural centre of Ukraine, but simultaneously becomes the present megacity.