The huge influx of tourists this summer has brought the near-constant paralyzing of the country's main axes. Traffic and mileage ranks have not been lacking from customs with Kosovo, to those with Montenegro to the southern tip of Ksamil.
A video posted by parachute Alket Islami shows the kilometre-long queue of tourists waiting for hours at the peak of the heat to reach the destination, Ksamil, christened "Europe's Maldives".
But the situation turns comical when you read the post of Infrastukutra Minister Belinda Balluku, who is trying to present it as a success of the government. Even the most famous spin doctor would envy him.
Balluku says in her post that all this influx of tourists (thanks to the government) has also brought this heavy traffic (thanks to the government), which has caught her ministry and ARRSH unprepared. She says that these images, only motivate her to do more, in the future!
Here's what the balls say about traffic:
I took the spurt from this aerial video posted by my friend Alket Islami, which shows how visitors to Ksamil, now baptized as "Europe's Maldives" have to wait long lines to accommodate.
For about 5 years now, we have been studying and providing solutions to road infrastructure in the south of the country with investments that have been completed and are towards completion, such as • Skrfica Tunnel
• Kardhiq-Delvina Road
• Orikum-Dukat
Road • Vlora Bypass • Palasa-Dhërmi
Road Or Llogara Tunnel, Albanian infrastructural pride.
However, the influx of visitors this summer, the promotion they themselves have made to our country, has placed us in MIE, ARRSH and ADS, before a new challenge and responsibility.
Study and design of the Dhërmi-Saranda road, the expansion and rehabilitation of tourist axes like this one of Ksamil, or all interconnecting roads at the southern end of the country, despite being on our planet, we must now be able to track them in time.
The same process should occur with municipalities, which must study and design new service capacities, ranging from public parking to cleaning.
Challenges motivate us.
One of those who remained surprised by Balluku's point of view is also the journalist Osman Stafa.
He says it is insulting and mocking to present traffic as success. "Instead of traffic being a concern for the minister, it is presented as a success. How absurd. "How insulting and mocking for everyone," the journalist wrote.
Full response from staff:
When I saw this post by Minister Balluku, I was reading The Blind man book by Jose Saramango. And those who read this book will understand.
I started and I was thinking.
Even the problem, like traffic, they turn it around and make it look like success.
But does the minister think about the stress that drivers, coming from Albania and abroad, experience this traffic?
For the fatigue that may have caused you the long road, the heat, etc.
Oil of trouble if we have traffic units of measurement for the high number of visitors.
Instead of being a concern for the minister, it is presented as a success. How absurd. How insulting and mocking to all.
Enter the stingray and stay in traffic. You are in Ksamil, you are in traffic. You go to The Velipoise and you stay in traffic. You go to The Saranda or Kosovo, you stay in traffic. He went to the highway, and he went back to the highway.
For us it is torturous, tiring, time wasted to stay in traffic, but for the minister it is guaranteed success.