Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca plans to put back minibuses into service on the main streets in downtown Chisinau, including on Stefan cel Mare Boulevard, and is now looking for the legal solution to put this idea into life. The mayor told reporters on Monday, October 1, that public transport is often inefficient in the central part of the city because some routes overlap. Furthermore, secondary streets are not always provided with street lights, therefore to avoid accidents and other problems public transport must run on main roads rather than on secondary, Chirtoaca says. According to the mayor of the capital, the circulation of minibuses on the main streets is part of the actions aimed to remedy the abuses committed in the city, as promised during the election campaign. At the same time, Chirtoaca said that at the moment when it was decided to reroute minibuses to the secondary streets, the decision was regarded as an abuse by everybody, including by much of the local authorities. Chisinau Traffic Police Chief Ion Vozian stated at the City Hall’s ordinary meeting that he is categorically against minibuses running on Stefan cel Mare Boulevard. In his words, the traffic on the thoroughfare is already too heavy, while in the previous years the chaotically driven and stopped minibuses accounted for much of the accidents on the boulevard. In retort, Dorin Chirtoaca said the circulation of the public transport on the first lane wouldn’t have been a problem had the traffic police taken care of the cars parked here and there on the carriageway. Transport Department Chief Veaceslav Tarna didn’t support the mayor’s idea either, saying that by removing the minibuses from the main streets the traffic was noticeably lessened. He also maintained that the people got used to this state of affairs and, generally, few people complained about it. According to him, the ones to complain were the private carriers who saw their returns slide.