Moldovan authorities consider possibility to allow high-tonnage vehicles to move on bridge across Dniester river

Chisinau, 8 September /MOLDPRES/ - A feasibility study on the capacity of the bridge across the Dniester river nearby the settlement Gura Bacului and Bacioc will be finished till late September. Based on this study, the authorities will consider possibility to allow high-tonnage vehicles, not only touring cars, moving on this bridge. Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Cristina Lesnic has made statements to this effect in an interview given exclusively to MOLDPRES.      

„The next phase for us is to have the feasibility study on 30 September this year, which will show us the capacity of the bridge, in order to allow moving not only touring cars, but also other vehicles as well. Yet, on condition that the Transnistrian and Russian sides in the Joint Control Commission (JCC) give their acceptance for not constructing any impediment and any international customs terminal. We do not invest in bridges or in free movement, so that somebody builds international customs terminals,” Cristina Lesnic noted.  

The deputy prime minister also said that she had personally gone to this bridge to verify the situation. “I could not say that we have a free movement, as there are still these peacekeeping forces on both banks of this bridge and people are stopped to say in which direction they go,” the official added.

The bridge across the Dniester river nearby the settlements Gura Bacului and Bacioc was re-opened in November 2017, after many years during which he had not been functional. Presently, only touring cars and persons are allowed to cross this bridge.

(Reporter N. Sandu, editor M. Jantovan)