The Cabinet agreed the program concerning the use of the road fund for repairing national public roads for 2018 and the street, local and communal public road periodic repair program, IPN reports.

Thus, the works to renovate national public roads will be financed with road fund money, while the local and communal public roads and streets with state budget funds.

According to Minister of Economy and Infrastructure Kiril Gaburici, over 972 million lei will be used this year to repair national public roads, in accordance with the road fund distribution program. Of this sum, 822.8 million lei will be allocated for maintaining the roads, for current repair and for works needed to ensure road traffic security. Also, 149.5 million lei will go to reconstruct national public roads and engineering constructions, to co-finance the project to build the road that will bypass Ungheni town, etc.

A sum of 1.6 billion lei was earmarked for implementing the street, local and communal public road periodic repair program. The planned activities will enable to improve the quality of road infrastructure in 1,242 communities. “The street, local and communal public road periodic repair program is designed to improve the movement conditions in most of the country’s settlement so as to contribute to enhanced trade and productive investments, growth of competitiveness of business entities and mobility of the labor force in rural areas,” stated Kiril Gaburici.