No-problem traffic recorded in Chisinau, local authorities say

Chisinau, 18 March /MOLDPRES/ - All streets of Chisinau have been cleaned at night and presently the traffic is without problems and access to suburbs is provided. The director of the municipal enterprise, Exdrupo Administration, Adrian Boldurescu, today made statements to this effect at a working meeting of on the intervention of municipal services for cleaning snow in the city in the wake of the bad weather conditions.   

According to Boldurescu, workers intervened on the main streets, on secondary ones on which public transport moves and ways of access to suburban settlements. Presently, decision-makers act with 21 equipment units to spread anti-skid material and 12 vehicles to clean streets. Depending on the weather conditions, the enterprise can intervene with 67 equipment units.   

According to the Chisinau city hall, the housing and utility administration today morning intervened to clean pavements, entrances in yards of apartment blocks and the public transport stations. At present, decision-takers intervene with 11 HACO specialized units and five tractors. During the day, the number of equipment units will be increased. Starting from today morning, 350 workers have been mobilized to clean pavements.

At the same time, the municipal enterprise, Association of Green Areas Management, acts with five transport units and 68 workers to clean ways of access from parks and alleys.  

At the meeting, the Chisinau acting mayor, Silvia Radu, asked municipal services to mobilize to intervene as quickly as possible on problematic road segments and ways of access to social institutions. Also, the mayor appealed to the city residents, especially children and old people, to remain at home, given that ice has been formed on streets.  

According to meteorologists, a Yellow Code of snowfall, glazed frost, wind and cold waves will be valid till 22 March. On this period, air temperatures of -5 Celsius degrees during the day and -11 degrees at night are expected.  

(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor A. Raileanu)