Tallinn has less money than last year to fix holes on the streets

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Currently Tallinn has EEK 86 mln in its budget for fixing holes on the streets. It is about twenty millions less than last year and the state’s saving budget can decrease the amount even more, ERR News reports.

The main reason for that is that the government gave less money to the local municipalities for road maintenance, Deniss Boroditš, the Deputy Mayor of Tallinn said.

“Since it was EEK 70 mln, then it’s EEK 40 mln this year and we have information that number will fall twice,” Boroditrš said.

Boroditš said that the state can’t jump over its shadow.

“We try to use the amount maximally,” he said.

“We try to fix the holes on the streets. But inevitably we have to halt some bigger projects,” Edgar Savisaar, the Mayor of Tallinn said.

The amount of money the city gives to the road maintenance will be clear after the city government gets ready their negative supplementary budget.

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