Jesuit Garden underground parking

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The plan, announced by the Beirut Municipality, is to have underground elevated parking for around 600 cars beneath the centuries-old Jesuit Garden, something they say is badly needed because of a lack of parking spaces in the area. It is part of a larger plan to build a motorway that would cut through Geitawi.

But opponents to the project say that even if the parking lot is underground, the 30-meter, hundred-year-old pine trees with their long roots would not survive, the vibrations from the drilling would harm the ruins of one of Lebanon’s oldest known churches, the construction period would cause tremendous noise pollution, and once the project does reach completion they worry about congestion and roadblocks in the mainly residential neighborhood’s narrow streets.

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