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Almost 140 000 people have cast their vote in the national contest for Mayor of the Year
Next year there will be more funds for kids and green initiatives
Local politicians from six parties at Copenhagen Municipality already agreed to the municipal budget for 2020. The new budget plan aims to ensure more welfare and promote initiatives that are to help Copenhagen to reach its goal of becoming the world’s first CO2-neutral capital by 2025.
In this regard Frank Jensen, Mayor of Copenhagen, undelined “I’m proud that we’ve managed to get such a broad majority to agree to a budget that cares for the city’s most vulnerable, people with handicaps and our children.”
More specifically, the budget agreement increase hourly parking rates and residential parking licences considerably, especially for the most polluting cars. The price of residential parking licences will increase from 1,600 kroner to 4,000 kroner per year for cars in the C-G energy class.
Meanwhile, the cyclists will get an extra 100 million kroner in a new cycle package with safer school roads and new bicycle paths. An additional 37 million kroner has been set aside for a new bicycle path in Husum and upgrading two bicycle super highways. Copenhagen will also look into innovative CO2-collecting technology and more wind turbines.
Other higlights of the Copenhagen budget 2020 include:
Almost 140 000 people have cast their vote in the national contest for Mayor of the Year
The planned public transit service will be completed somewhere in 2035
Almost 140 000 people have cast their vote in the national contest for Mayor of the Year
The technology differs from maglev in that it allows the usage of already existing infrastructure, with only slight modifications
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Almost 140 000 people have cast their vote in the national contest for Mayor of the Year
City officials invite residents to meet in person for valuable consultations on greening transformations of their living environment
The holiday honours an event when communities from both lands united against the Livonian Crusaders in the 13th century
Almost 140 000 people have cast their vote in the national contest for Mayor of the Year
The main focus of the festivities is a ‘miracle’, which involves the liquefaction of the saint’s blood
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