Austere budget means bad roads

Road maintenance companies from Chisinau justify themselves they cannot do more to repair the roads, because there is no money earmarked for this purpose. “We're repairing some 10,000 square meters of roads every week, while the necessary is 30-50 thousand,” the chief of the Public Transport and Roads Direction, Veaceslav Tarna, told the City Hall on Monday, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the official, 96 sq.m. Of roads have been repaired this year. General mayor Dorin Chirtoaca says solution by be sought for to cover as many broken roads as possible. He has also stressed the roads in suburbs also need to be repaired, especially the ones leading to the west. He appreciated as positive the repair works of Gheorghe Asachi str. “All the technical requirements are taken into account, but the things could be done even better,” Chirtoaca has said. Gheorghe Asachi str. is only street to be repaired fully this year in Chisinau, as 6 million lei are used in this respect.