Bucharest Drivers/Roads

Little Emil and a little bit of motorway

by Craig Turp July 13, 2009 Bucharest

 Romanian newspapers are reporting this morning that Prime Minister Little Emil Boc yesterday promised to have a 30km stretch of the of the Bucharest – Ploiesti motorway finished by the end of this year. Truth is, in a rare moment of lucidity, Little Emil said no such thing. What he actually said was ‘we have [...]

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Government forgets what parks are for

by Craig Turp April 27, 2009 Bucharest

 Over the past week or two banners have gone up all over the city declaring Bucharest a greener and happier place. Capitala creste verde is the slogan, or such like. Romanian-speakers can read more about it here. So it’s all the more confusing that the city council last week decided to banish bikes and roller-skaters [...]

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A quick guide to Bucharest logic

by Craig Turp March 25, 2009 Bucharest

 Reprimanded someone yesterday evening for parking on the pavement, meaning that I had to take a detour around his car and on to a busy road. His reply? “Cand primaria imi da locul de parcare o sa parchez regulamentar. Pana atunci, parchez unde vreau.” (When the council gives me a parking place I’ll park legally. [...]

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Oprescu gives in

by Craig Turp March 17, 2009 Bucharest

 Alas we were too hasty in our celebrations. The Formula Z races will be going ahead in August.

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Bucharest 1964: A Thousand Thanks to Alex Galmeanu

by Craig Turp February 21, 2009 Bucharest

 Don’t know who Alex Galmeanu is, but he has a blog, and a site, which deserve your urgent attention. If I ever meet him I will shake his hand and buy him a drink: these photos of Bucharest in 1964 are (probably quite literally) priceless. I know not where he got them from (and unless [...]

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Horse runs away, Bucharest City Council closes stable door

by Craig Turp February 3, 2009 Bucharest

 Bucharest City Council yesterday unveiled two new sets of traffic lights on Soseaua Kiseleff, the street that has become something of a mad mile in recent times, with two young girls being killed by reckless drivers here in less than a year. The latest death came on Saturday, when a speeding Austrian diplomat killed a [...]

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If Romania’s New Government Really Wants to Save Money, It Should Cut Bureaucracy

by Craig Turp January 8, 2009 Romania

 As at least one or two regular readers of Bucharest Life (regular readers? Who are we trying to fool…?) will know, there are few things that irk about life in Bucharest more than the limitless amount paperwork involved in completing just about any simple task. Almost all of it is unnecessary. As the new government [...]

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