Transportation

“Every day we had a meeting in order to discuss the security situation. There would be representatives of the BH Army, UNPROFOR, and at that time, representatives of the city police, and they would analyse the situation for that day, and would make decisions about the functioning of public transport. Was there only going to be bus transport through the dangerous road, or would the trams run, and along which route… But every day we insisted on having as much normal public life as possible, so that people could feel alive and not as if they were being held captive in some cage.”

- Mirjana Stanić, City Minister for Communications

“Sarajevo is a city that had trams before Vienna and Paris. And when the trams in Sarajevo stopped running at the beginning of the war, it was a kind of psychological set-back for them.”

- Muhamed Kreševljaković, Mayor of Sarajevo

“Sometimes, it was impossible for the trams to drive through what was known as sniper's alley… Because of its very intensive sniper fire. In order to gain stability, to improve safety in the psychological sense, we insisted on new safety measures every day. Among other things, this included the positions of snipers and UNPROFOR soldiers in the neighbouring buildings or the escorting of trams by other vehicles.”

- Mirjana Stanić, Minister of Communications of Sarajevo