Road traffic will be halted in the center of Chisinau from Saturday, 01:00 PM, until Sunday, 10:00 PM, on the section between Mitropolit Gavriil Banulescu-Bodoni and Sfatul Tarii streets. According to the Chisinau City Hall, the restrictions are imposed to ensure the smooth running of the Ethnic Festival, reports IPN.

The municipality specifies that the restrictions will also target the intersections of Stefan cel Mare si Sfant Boulevard with Teatrală Lane and Tricolorului and Maria Cebotari Streets. During this period, public transportation will be redirected to adjacent streets.

Thus, the trolleybuses on routes 1, 4, 5, 8, 22, and 34, as well as the buses on routes 9, 11, 26, and 46 will travel on modified routes.

Trolleybuses 1, 5, 8, 22, and 34 will bypass the closed section, depending on the direction, on Banulescu-Bodoni, Bucuresti, Alexei Sciusev, Mihai Viteazul, and Columna streets. The route of trolleybus 4 will be modified on the return direction, through Constantin Stere, Mihail Kogalniceanu, Serghei Lazo, Alexei Mateevici, and Alexandr Puskin streets.

At the same time, buses on routes 9, 11, 26, and 46 will be redirected, depending on the route, onto Alexei Shchusev, Bucuresti, Metropolitan Gavriil Banulescu-Bodoni, Mihail Kogalniceanu, and Alexandr Pushkin streets.

The Festival of Ethnicities is organized by the Chisinau City Hall in partnership with the Interethnic Relations Agency.