Ultimatum from Byarozauka dwellers

People living on Tarfyanaya Street in Brest are going to boycott the “elections” if the territory near their houses is not put in order by autumn.

Dwellers of Brest's Byarozauka district were pleasantly surprised last spring  to hear a decision of the city authorities to repair Tarfyanaya Street, which turned into a swampy place in rains. The municipal authorities promised to build the central sewage system, pave the road and make pavements. Now dwellers regret they had illusions that their life would be more comfortable...

Sewage works were a real disaster, but people got through it. They have another problem now. A local dweller told charter97.org: “The sewage system does not work well – water has been flooding our gardens since April. Moreover, they left the ground dug up  after installing pipes.”

Appeals to the municipal authorities gave no results. “Deputy head of the city executive commission Vasily Kavalchuk replied to us: if the governor [Kanstantin Sumar – charter97.org] gives us money, we will do it. But they spent 3 billion rubles on the sewage system, installed it only for half of the street and left the rest undone. It is even worse than it was before,” Byarouzauka dwellers complain.

“We are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. It's okay if they don't pave the street, but if they don't pave a narrow walkway and fill in pits by September 1, people living on Tarfyanaya Street (several thousands people) will send a letter to Lidzia Yarmoshyna and warn no one will vote,” a reader of charter97.org website tells about public moods.

The works to lay out the sewage system were to be performed by the Brest branch of  the Belarusian Mechanization Direction, but the company said it had no relation to the project anymore. A answer from the city executive committee does not give hopes too: no money to complete repair works on Tarfyanaya Street. In this case, local dwellers have the only way out – to boycott the “parliamentary elections”.