A resident in Thessaloniki found an original way to protest the huge hole on his neighborhood street, the poor infrastructure conditions and the indifference of the municipality. He planted a small cypress right in the middle of the hole and the street.
“The soil must be fertile as the hole is growing day by day due to the passing by vehicles,” the man told local media.
Locals say that the hole has been there for more than three years and no municipality worker has ever came even close or took any initiative to fix the problem that troubles citizens and vehicles.
After Radio Thessaloniki made the problem public and posted also pictures of the lonesome but proud cypress, the deputy mayor of the area apologized and promised that the technical service of the municipality will immediately intervene to solve the problem even if just this one and not of the whole area.
The deputy said further that more than 3 million euros were secured three years ago with the aim to improve the infrastructure in Chalastra – where the cypress is quietly growing – and other neighborhoods of Delta Municipality.
He blamed “bureaucratic procedures” for the delays and “sewerage works that have taken place in the past.”
It is the second incident where Greeks take the situation in their hands, totally fed up with the notorious bureaucracy that moves slower than a turtle.
On the island of Crete, residents of Alikianos constructed their own road over night after the bridge that connected their village with the rest of the world collapsed end of February.
