Zagreb resident has warned about this problem for six years: “They say they can’t do anything”

For six years, a resident of Zagreb’s Kozjak neighborhood has been asking for a bench at the starting stop of ZET bus routes 201 and 238. The old wooden bench deteriorated and was removed, but no replacement appeared.

Passengers now have nowhere to sit while waiting for a bus, and no shelter when it rains. The bus leaves every 25 minutes, the resident said in a social media post.

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What can be done to at least return the old, broken bench to its former place?

“ Kოზjak, the starting bus stop for routes 201 and 238. A wooden bench stood there for years, without a shelter. The bus leaves every 25 minutes. Over time, the bench was destroyed. Someone removed it. For six years I have been asking the local council to install a new bench and a small shelter from the rain. Their answer is that it is church property and they cannot do anything,” he wrote.

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Kozjak, the starting bus stop for routes 201 and 238. A wooden bench stood there for years, without a shelter. The bus leaves every 25 minutes. Over time, the bench was destroyed. Someone removed it. For six years I have been asking the local council to install a new bench and a small shelter from the rain. Their answer is that it is church property and they cannot do anything.

He said the situation was especially frustrating because five benches stand on a green space about 50 meters below the stop. “What can be done to at least return the old, broken bench to its former place?” he asked.

Some commenters said they would be willing to help build a new bench. One resident wrote that local people could make a proper one, but added that they were not allowed to do so.

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I would find a group of people in Kozjak, longtime residents who carry Zagreb in their hearts, and we would make a proper bench, but we are not allowed to.