The European Union offers Moldova a grant of €15 million for building two ring roads. A grant agreement to this effect was signed in Chisinau by Minister of Transport and Road Infrastructure Vasile Botnari and Julia Otto, Head of the EBRD Office in Chisinau, which will manage the grant, IPN reports.

The €15 million will be used to build a 6 km ring road around Bahmut, on the R1 Chisinau – Ungheni – Sculeni national road, and an 8.5 km ring road around Vulcanesti, on the M3 Chisinau – Giurgiulesti national road, at the border with Romania.

The works will include the building of embankments, water drainage systems and bridges, setting up of road signs and road marking. The ring roads’ roadway will consist of two lanes that will be 7 m in width. A bridge over Cahul River will be built on the beltway around Vulcanesti town. It will be about 40 m long.