Bucharest Municipality has launched the 2035 Bucharest Strategic Concept (CSB) that seeks to shape the development example for Romania’s capital, setting joint principles that lead to the development of a harmonised and competitive area. The concept is built in several phases and follows five axes: territorial context, productive city, operating city, sustainable city and urban management, considering a city’s role of European capital, influence area, demographic, economic, infrastructure, transport and environment figures etc.
The permanent development of Bucharest and urban agglomeration play an important role in adopting a clear mobility policy that would harmonise the accessibility objective with that of improving life quality. The capital needs an integrated transport system with peri-urban coverage, an attractive commercial offer and also a correlation of urban and railway transport for strengthening territorial cooperation.
Therefore, the Strategy plans to organise the entire territory (city and its influence area) through an integrated planning and management, by developing transport and increasing its connectivity, as well as by organising intermodal poles for the transfer from peri-urban to urban transport. The General Master Plan for Urban Transport stipulates the need to develop and implement the Metropolitan Transport Authority, to ensure the efficient integration of transports and services. “The accent has to fall on the development of the underground network and on the territory of the villages and cities around Bucharest, as stipulated in the development plans – towards Mogoşoaia, Buftea, Otopeni, Voluntari etc. – as this means of transport is efficient, eco-friendly and has a strong structuring character capable to highlight the functional cohesion of the entire territory”, declared Prof PhD Architect Mihaela Negulescu, responsible for the urban mobility section of the Strategy.
The Strategy will prioritise those means of transport with reduced environmental impact, both by expanding the underground, as well as surface vehicles, trams or light metros, thus contributing to the urban landscape integration. “These transport modes are currently appreciated by everybody for their structuring character, efficiency, comfort and a certain “urba-nity” that resides from a high landscape integration potential – grassing or framing its routes in a grass-covered area, creating special-design stations that can become a symbol of something or can represent architectural monuments of a territory. Reintroducing the tram in the central area of the city can be one of the potential mea-sures of an integrated policy – LUT (Land Use & Transport) of complex rehabilitation of this area for which the Bucharest Central Urban Development Integrated Plan is underway”, concluded Negulescu.
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