Ten new trolley buses to move on streets of Moldovan capital

Chisinau, 10 December /MOLDPRES/ - Ten new trolley buses will move on streets of Chisinau; the transport means are assembled by employees of the municipal enterprises Regia Transport Electric Chişinău (Chisinau Electric Transport Administration, RTEC). RTEC director Dorin Ciornii made statements to this effect at a weekly meeting of the Chisinau city hall’s services.   

According to Ciornii, the trolley buses were brought to Chisinau one week ago. “Five trolley buses are with classical movement and another five are with  autonomous propulsion. The classical-type ones will be assembled during two weeks and the trolley buses with autonomous propulsion – till late January 2019,” Dorin Ciornii said.

For his part, the acting mayor of Chisinau, Ruslan Codreanu, said that the trolley buses with autonomous propulsion, moving on Chisinau streets, had autonomy of 20 km. “The new trolley buses have an autonomy of 30 km, which means that the testing process will last more. For the time being, decision-makers have not ruled on which routes the new trolley buses would be established. We are to see the districts where there is no public transport or where it moves with difficulty. At the same time, we asked the Chisinau municipal council to approve a budget of 72 million lei for the assembling of another 15 trolley buses with autonomous propulsion,” Codreanu noted.     

The overall cost of those five trolley buses with autonomous propulsion is of 1.2 million euros and one classical-type trolley bus costs 150,000 euros.

Presently, 310 trolley buses move on Chisinau’s streets, of which 80 ones are old-type ones.