The executive believes that passengers must be provided with decent travel conditions and with minibuses and buses that are exclusively intended for passenger transport. Only after the passenger transport operators fulfill these conditions, the government is willing to negotiate the fare increase.

In a press release, the government disapproves of the strike organised by transport operators, which suspended 600 races today, October 9. The operators claim that the strike was triggered by the refusal of the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure to increase the tariffs on national transport services.

According to the Executive, the operators want an immediate tariff increase from 48 bani to 92 bani per km, while not taking into account the negative impact of the increase on the citizens.

The government added that a bill which aims to amend the Road Transport Code is currently being drafted. The bill has been forwarded to the Advisory Council on road transport, which includes all the transport employers' associations. The project will be subject to public consultations, allowing everyone to contribute to the issue of national transport services in Moldova.