The candidate for mayor of Chisinau of the Party “Platform Dignity and Truth” (PPPDA) Andrei Nastase promises that Chisinau will be a city where punctuality will be something ordinary, supported by infrastructure of appropriate mobility – fast and safe public transport and good roads and sidewalks. It will also have sufficient public parking places, pedestrian areas and cycling tracks, accessibility for persons with special needs and air connections that will facilitate the rapid contact at reasonable fares with the world, IPN reports.

Among the measures that Andrei Nastase promises to take during the first year in office are to lay out corridors for public transport, to apply information technology to regulate the transport and flow of passengers and to increase the number of new trolleybuses outfitted with ramps for persons with special needs and air conditioning. At the first stage, the operational activity of the existing operators will be subject to a thorough audit. At the second phase, a remedying plan will be drafted to center the operational activity on the mobility needs of the people and to remove the old public units of transport.

Under the electoral program of the PPPDA candidate, projects will be designed and applications for non-reimbursable funds for purchasing electric buses will be filed. There will be introduced an integrated electronic taxation system “e-ticket”. The municipality will also support the development of a mobile and web application that would include accessible information about the timetable of public transport.

As regards parking lots, Andrei Nastase said he will ensure the identification, delimitation and signaling of parking places by protecting then green areas. A municipal enterprise could be created for managing public parking places and for gradually introducing taxes for street parking. The public access ways will be standardized and the crosswalks will be secured by clear markings and other measures, mainly near education institutions.

The candidate also promised that during his first month of mayoralty he will order to outfit all the institutions managed by the City Hall with bicycle parking racks and programs to support the users of alternative and ecological units of transport will be later implemented.