Article by Alexandru Barbu – published on Sunday, August 17, 2025, 11:13 / Updated Sunday, August 17, 2025 11:14
Guest at GSP LiveStelian Bujduveanu, the interim general mayor of the city of Bucharest, also spoke about the mass sport in the Capital. Who requires his resignation and what will he do with the running tracks in the parks, which he says “are destroyed”?
Bujduveanu firmly asks the schools to open their courts: “We were hitting, someone was guarding?! Is it an aberration!”.
Stelian Bujduveanu, the mayor of Bucharest, about the closed school yard: “I gave you an answer that no one wanted to give you until now”
“At the level of meal sports, we have a very interesting institution in the capital, the Proedus, which invests a lot in the sports that children in schools are. This year we served 12,000 children through sports activities.
What does that mean? The City Hall pays the teachers from public schools so that they can carry out sports activities outside the time program. In the old days, when we were younger, we were going and playing sports in the school yard, we were doing it. Now you have the opportunity to play sports with specialized teachers. What prepares you for the future to choose a sport.
Today, only in some schools can you enter the free time to play. This is a decision related to the Board of Directors. Again, an aberration at the level of administration and an aberration of the Romanian state.
The board of directors of the schools are made up of people. Those people always think of their own skin until they think of the general good of citizens. And they decided, without asking anyone, that it would be dangerous to play football, basketball, tennis or tennis in the school yard and that they would better close them, that if a child is hit.
In the school yard I was hit when we were young … These people must be withdrawn and appointed other people, who will first have the desire to thank the community they represent. The school is related to a community, not theirs on the natural person.
I gave you an answer that no one wanted to give you so far. Why are the courts of open schools? Because those people in the management of the school, in the Board of Directors, who are, for the most part, politically appointed, do not want to risk even a centimeter.
If you see that there are degraded lands, then put your hand and repair them. Again, when you were young, did anyone keep you? Accidents happen in an unpleasant way, God forbid!, But this is not a reason. Salt Drob: Let's close the schools of schools, not play the children, not to hit the children.
Something can be done at the level of the administration councils, the schools are managed by the sector town halls together with the School Inspectorate, so it does not belong to the Capital City Hall. It does not belong to us, but we have always urged to have this approach. However, it seems to me aberrant that in 2025 we have this discussion. We do not open the school yard at night, that if the child is hit I will answer. Then give your resignation, another!”, Said Bujduveanu, at GSP Live.
“The shame of Bucharest!”
As for the running tracks in the parks, which the PNL mayor characterizes as “destroyed”, PMB plans to repair them. And to separate the Velo infrastructure.
“They are destroyed, the running tracks in the park are destroyed! Another overdue. In Ior we have a track around the lake, in the youth we have a track around the lake and another one in Herastrau, talking about those famous places to run.
We enter the rehabilitation of the banks in Herastrau, we have the contract signed, awarded, it must pass the summer, that we cannot work in the summer, the herasty is emptied, the whole bank is made. The second stage means to restore the alley, because the alley in Herastrau, which is also left in a certain area, is the shame of Bucharest!
When we restore the alley, it must be rethought with two components: do we want bicycles in the park? Yes or no? First question. I am not a fan of bicycles in the park. Either you isolate them, remove them outside the park and bring them to certain areas of the park, or not. But if you put them on the alley in the park, you will look like in IOR: it will hit children who are with their parents or who are in the trolley.
They gave me scooters in the parks. This approach must disappear. We talked to the Local Police: we should not allow access to parks in the parks, nor to electric bicycles, glovo etc. ”, added Bujduveanu.
We have a big project for bicycle lane. It is an arrears of Bucharest, because every mayor did, where he wanted, a bicycle lane. We will make a masterplan, the map will show you where the main tracks in Bucharest will be.
And I give you an example. If we have a boulevard with a track figured on it, you cannot come with capital investments without making the track, because you will not take an opinion from the Capital City Hall
– Stelian Bujduveanu, the interim mayor of Bucharest
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