Lvov residents stand against hosting Euro-2012
Residents of Lvov, one of Ukrainian cities stand against building new football arena in their city, aimed for Euro-2012 matches.
“Lvov residents oppose to building the stadium from city budget when they get to know the money could be spent on roads reconstruction, kindergartens and hospitals” – uasport.net cites reps of Lvov’s Public Forum.
Forum reps made public the results of opinion poll in Lvov according to which 60% of residents were against building stadium from city budget.
The poll was held on August, 18 from 10:30 to 15:00 with electronic boards placed in different districts of Lvov. Total number of interviewed was 3Â 269 respondents.
Earlier municipal council deputies have agreed to provide financial guarantees for building the stadium and allocate 80 mln hryvnjas to start the works.
But as informed Theodore Dyakiv, the activist of Lvov Public Forum the city hasn’t conditions necessary for holding Euro-2012 so the right to host the matches should be given to backup cities.
Lvov’s Public Forum demands holding opinion surveys and after making public the results municipal deputies should pass adequate resolution.
On August, 18 in Lvov were started heading works at the stadium building site for Euro-2012.
Stadium project for 33 thousand seats has already been approved by Ukrgosekspertiza and other licensing agencies. The stadium’s handing-over is planned in July 2010.