Tender contests for the rehabilitation of about 170 km of roads will be announced by spring. The costs of works exceed 3.5 billion lei. Tender contests to repair over 180 km of roads have been launched so far this year, with the costs of works being assessed at 2.2 billion lei, Minister of Economy and Infrastructure Anatol Usatyi was quoted by IPN as saying in a news conference.
Anatol Usatyi noted that the Ministry since the start of this year has launched tender contests for the rehabilitation of the R13 Bălți-Florești, G50 Florești-Nicolaevca-Sângerei, R26 Mihailovca-Cimișlia, R30 Căușeni-Ștefan Vodă, R31 Tudora-Palanca and other roads. A tender contest was announced for the modernization of Sector 3 of the belt road of Chisinau municipality. The tender contest to repair Sector 2 of the same road is to be launched in the near future.
According to the minister, the roads that will start to be rehabilitated this year will be ready in a year or two, depending on the complexity of works. Roads that started to be repaired earlier, but where the works were performed with delay will be put into operation this year. Among these are segments of the Chisinau-Ungheni highway. The works were also late on the Hâncești-Lăpușna, Comrat-Vulcănești, Cahul-Leova, and Bălți-Sărăteni roads. In some of the cases, the contracts were terminated and new tender contests were announced.
Anatol Usatyi also said that the network of public roads is over 10,000 km long and almost 6,000 of these are managed by the Ministry through the State Road Administration. These are express, national and regional roads. About 4,000 km are local roads maintained by district councils. The exact length of common roads, streets managed by the local public authorities of the first level, is not known, but is estimated at about 30,000 km.
