The Metropolitan Municipality, which has undersigned projects that will bring Bursa back to its green identity, is bringing Bursa's largest city park to Yıldırım, with an area of more than 600 decares. The first phase of the 75th Year Urban Forest project, with an area of 31 thousand square meters, started to take shape.
Bursa, which has gradually moved away from its 'green' identity with the rapid population growth and unplanned construction, especially after the 1980s, due to industrialization, regains its green image with the projects of the Metropolitan Municipality. Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, which breathes life into Bursa with the small-scale parks brought to the neighborhoods as well as the national gardens implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, has accelerated its efforts to bring the second largest park to the Yıldırım District, which is one of the districts with the lowest amount of green space per capita. The Metropolitan Municipality, which brought the 225-decare Vakıf City Park to Yıldırım, which addresses the Vakıf, İsabey, Şirinevler and Demetevler Districts, which was previously called Ankarayolu six, now the approximately 75-decare area between Otosansit Industrial Site and 643. Yıl Mahallesi on the upper part of the road. as a privileged green area, it brings to Bursa.
Everything was thought
The project, which will be implemented by the Metropolitan Municipality in cooperation with the General Directorate of Forestry, covers a total area of 643 thousand 185 square meters. Work has accelerated in the first stage of the giant project, which includes a country restaurant, country coffee, sports fields, children's playgrounds, picnic areas, adventure park, zipline, paintball, mountain sledge, bicycle tracks, pedestrian walking tracks and service roads. The first phase of the 31th Anniversary Urban Forest project will be the meeting point of the residents with the youth center, cafeteria, basketball court, skateboard track, children's playgrounds, picnic areas, bicycle track and pedestrian walking paths.
'Green' Bursa again
Bursa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Alinur Aktaş stated that one of the 6 main topics they have set as their target is 'green Bursa' and said that they are moving towards this goal with determined steps. Reminding that the Cekirge Terrace, Doğanbey and Gökdere National Garden projects, which were carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, are progressing rapidly, Mayor Aktaş said, “On the other hand, as the Metropolitan Municipality, we are pushing all our limits for green. The 225-acre Vakıf City Park and Bağlaraltı Park, which we brought to Yıldırım, became places where citizens could come together and breathe easily. This project, which we have implemented on an area of approximately 600 decares, will be one of the most privileged green field projects in Bursa. Good luck right now," he said.