Rama presents "Urban Renaissance 2.0": We will clean the "spider webs" from cities

2026-06-24 10:35:15Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Rama presents "Urban Renaissance 2.0": We will clean the "spider
Prime Minister Edi Rama 

Prime Minister Edi Rama is present at the event on underground infrastructure in urban areas, focusing on the arrangement of overhead cables and improvised structures that damage the appearance of cities, the gradual transition towards underground infrastructure, and the role of municipalities in this process.

" It is now entirely possible to clean our cities of plastic spider webs, and as the inventory shows, the vast majority of these cables are non-functional, but they remain there entirely as a sign of forgetfulness and lack of attention ," said the Prime Minister.

In the first 10 days of July, the Urban Renaissance 2.0 program will also be presented, which addresses a number of issues, Rama said.

"The time has come to take an exhaustive approach, to address all the remaining uninvested parts, which are actually much less than the invested parts of the water supply and sewage system. A comprehensive intervention will be needed to respond to those remaining unaddressed needs of the still missing segment of the overall network. Secondly, we will address the need to take urban and interurban transport to another level. The weakest point is peak season transport when it becomes very difficult for tourists and visitors to move by public transport. It is important to enter a phase when transport is completely green, with electric buses and secondly, to build a system for the use and management of these vehicles by municipalities. We will now extend it to the entire territory, we will have a logistics park that will serve municipalities for all cleaning, maintenance, etc. related to post-emergency situations. We will support "a program to create more significant parking capacities," the prime minister said.

Rama added that there will be funding for start-ups due to high demand.

"We also have a program for the expansion of start-ups to other territories, we have a significant increase in requests in the Start Up Albania program, for which we will also issue new financing, because the qualitative requests have been greater. The joint companies for which a process has been launched, we have a number of cores now more established. Joint companies between local government units and farmers or entrepreneurs in the village. And this is certainly also with the other program that will begin to be open for expressions of interest, which is the Double Your Entrepreneurship program. I bring these points here because it is important that you engage together with the minister to make it possible for the Rilindja 2.0 manifesto that will be published at the national conference that we will hold between the government and local government, to be as complete as possible and for everyone to find themselves with their own priorities or objectives," said Rama.

Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, Enea Karakaçi, said that the aim is for populated areas to be covered by the 5G network.

" All populated areas should be covered by high-speed networks, 5G performance. The objective is to build a gigabit society where citizens and businesses have access to high speed ," said Karakaçi.


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