Member of the Seimas Tomas Tomilinas shared a post on his Facebook account in which he marvels at the people from Vilnius who go by car to admire the cherry blossoms. He even suggests that the Vilnius City Municipality ban traffic on Upė Street during cherry blossoms.
"A far worse advertisement than the famous Go Vilnius parody is the cherry blossom visit week in Vilnius. That's what's going on White bridge is an ecological disaster that demonstrates to foreign tourists that we are not what we want to be.
A few meters away from the people of Vilnius taking selfies and sitting on the grass, we see hundreds of cars stuck in a huge traffic jam, wanting to park their smoking BMW right next to Sakura, so that the effect of the Sahara dust will be stronger.
All this "bacchanalia" is taking place in a country that spends millions on improving its image. 94 percent travel in Lithuania is done by own car, in the near future we will start paying fines to the EU for not implementing the air pollution reduction targets.
I have free advice for the Vilnius authorities to ban traffic on Upė Street during the week of cherry blossoms, to create a special sign and show that Lithuania is a green country that nurtures pedestrian culture, where clean air and climate awareness win over the primitive comfort of parking your car right next to a sakura tree," he writes. Member of the Seimas Tomas Tomilin.
