Administration should pay more attention to problem of traffic, mayor

The administration will have to pay more attention to the problem of traffic and crowdedness in the capital city, said Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca. In an interview for Info-Prim Neo of the series “Year 2012 in Moldova’s and Moldovans’ life”, which was {published on December 19}, the mayor said that effort will be made to ease traffic and reduce crowdedness in the central part of Chisinau. “Some of the facilities may be relocated. It’s hard, but we must at least start. The urban crowdedness and traffic congestion are the most acute problems everywhere in the world. The towns concentrate half of the globe’s population, but occupy an area of only 2%,” stated Dorin Chirtoaca. As regards the transport, there will be assembled 50 trolleybuses so that each second trolleybus is new. The minibus routes will be made peripheral. “The minibuses should run on the outskirts, where there are no trolleybus and bus routes. We may also build a tramway line or a surface metro line from the Airport to Vatra so that we also have what the European capitals and towns have had for a long time,” said the mayor. The Info-Prim Neo interviews of the series “Year 2012 in Moldova’s and Moldovans’ life” that were launched on December 6 were opened by Prime Minister Vlad Filat. Afterward, their opinions about the performance of the passing year were stated by the Communist leader Vladimir Voronin, OSCE Mission Head Jennifer Brush, Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar, and Minister of Justice Oleg Efrim. The next interviews will be with the expert of the Association for Participatory Democracy ADEPT Corneliu Gurin, director of the National Anticorruption Center Viorel Chetraru, head of the Moldovan communiqué in Quebec, Canada, Ala Mindicanu, Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Vasile Bumacov, and singer Cristofor Aldea Teodorovici.