Moldova's Good Roads Programme 2 to have budget worth 2.7 billion lei, to allow repairing 2,600 km of roads

Chisinau, 3 April /MOLDPRES/ - About 2,600 km of roads will be constructed within the Goods Roads 2 National Programme in 2019, - up by 1,000 km against the year before. More than 2.7 billion lei was provided for in the budget to this end. The cabinet of ministers approved the decision today, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

,,Just as we have promised, we come up with the Goods Roads 2 project this year. And while last year, we reached 1,600 km, in 2019, we will repair and will even build up to 2,600 km of road. Money for this project is envisaged both in the road fund and directly in the state budget, - up to 2.7 billion lei. I think that people expect from us namely this: on the one hand, infrastructure projects, on the other hand, projects dealing with the social dimension,” Prime Minister Pavel Filip said.

As much as 1.7 billion lei is planned in the state budget for this year for the periodical repair of national, local, commune roads and streets. Roads will be repaired with this money in more than 1,000 settlements of Moldova, according to proposals by local public authorities.   

At the same time, over 1 billion 24 million lei will be earmarked for national public roads from the Road Fund. About a half of this sum, more than 498 million lei, will be used for the routine maintenance of national public roads. About 326 million lei is provided for the carrying out of works of repair of roads and engineering constructions (bridges and passages across railway). Twenty million lei is scheduled for the extension of national roads: designing, assessments of roads and purchasing of grounds.       

About 1,600 km of roads were restored in 1,200 settlements within the Good Roads national programme in 2019. The overall sum of investments amounted to more than 1.9 billion lei – allocated from the Road Fund and the state budget.