More than 30 bus and minibus stations will be fully modernized during the next three years under a public-private partnership. There will be rehabilitated the administrative buildings, platforms and parking lots situated near bus and minibus stations, the sanitary facilities, water supply and sewerage systems and lighting systems. There will be built ramps for persons with disabilities and modernized the information and management systems.

According to the Public Property Agency, the rights to operate the services provided by the state-owned company Auto Terminals and Stations were transferred to the private investor for a period of 25 years. The contest was won by the association of economic operators F.P.C. “ExFactor-Grup” S.R.L., “Gările Auto Moderne” S.R.L. and private individual Lluka Muco. The investor is obliged in the period to pay over 5 million lei a year into the state budget. When the partnership contract expires, this will have to transfer to the state all the assets, including the reconstructed ones.

Public Property Agency director Vladimir Baldovici said the infrastructure of the bus and minibus stations was built over 50 years ago and can no longer cope with the flow of units of transport and passengers and generates large maintenance costs. A large part of the platforms of these stations are destroyed, but the state does not have financial resources to modernize them.

The Public Property Agency assured that the public-private partnership will not generate rises in fares during the next few years.