The participants in traffic are warned not to start a journey if their cars are not properly outfitted for winter and to obey the travelling speed. The warning was issued by the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, which informed that the national roads early in the morning of January 3 were passable and vehicles travel in winter conditions, but a layer of ice appeared on some of the roads, IPN reports.
There is ice on the following roads: Chisinau-Orhei-Soroca-Otaci; Chisinau-Odessa; Chisinau-Ungheni-Sculeni; Chisinau-Leușeni; Chisina –Dubăsari; Chisinau-Bender; Anenii Noi-Căușeni; Rezina-Orhei; Otaci-Edineț; Bălți-Fălești-Sculeni, and Bălți-Sărăteni.
To find out more information about the conditions on roads in winter, one can visit the websites asd.md and mei.gov.md. In the course of winter, the operational service of the State Road Administration is available round-the-clock on 022-74-89-61, 022-22-55-30 and 060477177.
Forty video cameras were set up on national roads to monitor and show the state of roads in real time.
