Municipal authorities have issued a new deadline for implementing an electronic ticketing system for Chisinau’s public transportation system. Last December, then deputy mayor and currently ad-interim mayor Ruslan Codreanu estimated that electronic ticketing would be implemented by September 1, 2018. Presently, managers in the field hope that the project will be completed by the end of the year, IPN reports.
During an operative meeting of the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC), Acting Head of the Transport and Communications Directorate Vitalie Butucel stated that the project roadmap, upon approval by the CMC, has been submitted to the Government, for technical assessment by the Electronic Government Center. Now the project will be returned to the CMC for approval of the recommendations issued by the E-Government Center. According to the Directorate head, an open contest will be held later this year to select the company that will implement the electronic ticketing system, aiming to have it running within public transit means in the following year.
In 2010, the Chisinau City Hall had announced that by 2012 residents of the capital won’t have to purchase tickets from a conductor, but pay for their trips with an electronic card. The authorities have repeatedly pushed this deadline further and, six years past the initial deadline, public transportation in the capital still lacks an e-ticketing system.
