Environment: Tbilisi’s Discount Rail Bypass
Environment: Tbilisi’s Discount Rail Bypass
Author(s): Tsira Gvasalia Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: Environment; Georgia; railway; construction; European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; vineyard; Zakaria Kutsnashvili; Green Alternative environmental group; traffic; landowners;
Summary/Abstract: An internationally backed project will route hazardous cargo out of the city center, but residents in its path say they’re being offered a pittance in exchange for valuable land and a way of life.
Journal: Transitions Online
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 08/02
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF