Filenews 28 August 2023
Despite their continuous demarches and frequent complaints, the situation that prevails lately on the pedestrian street in the port of Kato Pafos regarding its use by two-wheelers and cars, continues without improvement, complain businessmen of the area and regulars.
Businessmen and visitors to the area confirmed the representations and complaints made recently to the Pafos Municipality, the Port Authority and the Police. They spoke of excessive and uncontrolled, in their expression, use of scooters and mopeds, but even cars, stressing that a particular problem is observed with the activity of rented two- or three-wheeled motorcycles that move amid pedestrians, young children and patrons of cafes and restaurants.
"It is a frequent phenomenon, especially on weekends when there is increased traffic, this excessive activity," they stressed, "resulting in the physical integrity of unsuspecting visitors being endangered without exaggeration. There has already been recorded an injury, fortunately slight, of a small child from a passing moped from the pedestrian street of the land area, as well as an accident with an employee of a leisure center supply company who was hit by an electric bicycle while traveling loaded to a center of the area."
Professionals in the area observe that the continuation of the phenomenon is now unjustified, since for months the new large parking area has been given for use despite the Archaeological Park of the pier.
The reuse of the large parking lot came at the right time, say businessmen in the area, due to the massiveness of the tourist season this year. As a result of the lack of sufficient parking spaces until recently, queues of cars of hundreds of meters were observed on a daily basis, tourist buses that were forced to disembark their passengers in the middle of the road, delay in leaving the coastal front reminiscent of big cities with intense traffic problems and therefore intense irritation everywhere.
This situation changed, however, since the new landscaped parking space was given for use by visitors and professionals of the area. This fact, professionals observe, makes any illegal movement of wheeled vehicles on pedestrian streets or other places that are not suitable for vehicle movement unjustified.
