Mayor of Tbilisi has introduced his initiative to the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Economics, offering to make the Tbilisi Transport Company subordinate to the Ministry. Gigi Ugulava says if the company is taken in the possession of the government, the government of the capital will have no connection to it. Mayor voiced this initiative following the past few days` protest of the Tbilisi municipal bus drivers, which has caused serious problems of transportation to the residents of the capital.
Ministry has rejected the initiative of the mayor. Authorities say the Tbilisi government is obliged to solve the problem of the bus drivers` strike itself, because the Tbilisi Transport Company and the Tbilisi Metropolitan Company are the subordinate companies to Tbilisi government. `Therefore, the mayor`s office is obliged to provide normal work of these structures and solve any problems related with them,` the statement of the Ministry
