The mayor’s offices this year will receive 450 million lei for repairing local roads. The money will be allocated from the 2015 road fund that is 1.52 billion lei, IPN reports.

Under a decision approved by the Government, 1.071 billion lei will be provided for maintaining and repairing roads, 678.04 million lei of which for the national roads, while 393.7 million lei for the local roads.

Minister of Transport and Road Infrastructure Vasile Botnari said that the access roads to schools, medical centers and other social facilities will be given priority this year too.

Prime Minister Chiril Gaburici said control needs to be ensured at all the road construction and rehabilitation stages, from the beginning of the works until their end. Another priority is to ensure road security. “The lanes on the recently renovated roads must be separated and road signs must be set up,” he stated.

Another issue discussed in a meeting centering on the utilization of the road fund, held before the Cabinet’s meeting on April 29, was the collection of road taxes. According to statistical data, over 40% of the vehicle owners do not pay such taxes. A solution is to monitor the vehicles by the national video surveillance system.

The road fund is used to finance the maintenance, repair and reconstruction of the national and local public roads, to administer and design public roads and to purchase the machinery needed to maintain the roads and to carry out particular works.