Chisinau's historical centre pedestrian zone to be rehabilitated

Chisinau, 24 June /MOLDPRES/ – There will be rehabilitated the pedestrian zone of a neighbourhood in the historical centre of Chisinau. The works started in early June, 24 June and it will cost the municipality MDL 3 million.

The project targets the segment between streets Alexei Sciusev, Maria Cebotari, Mihail Kogalniceanu and Sfatul Tarii.

The interim head of the Department of public transport and communications (DTPCC), Octavian Lungu, has said today at the weekly meeting of the City Hall that the rehabilitation works are to last 03 months. Within it, it will be arranged over 2,800 m2 of sidewalks with pavement with granite surface and there will be replaced the curbs too. Also, the workers will arrange public car parking lots, and pedestrian crossings will be equiped with ramps for persons with reduced mobility. Under the project, it will also be upgraded the public lighting. Thus, there will be rehabilitated more consoles and street lighting fixtures, additionally there will be installed 39 pillars for illumination of pedestrian zone and 64 decorative lighting bodies of the Museum of Ethnography and Natural History (MEIN) throughout the perimeter of the neighbourhood.

"Today we have started work on rehabilitating the pedestrian area of ​​a neighbourhood in historical city centre. In three months, there will be paved the sidewalks around MEIN, on streets Alexei Sciusev, Maria Cebotari, Mihail Kogalniceanu and Sfatul Tarii, we shall arrange parking lots, illuminate the area and install decorative illumination on facades of historical buildings," said the Chisinau acting mayor, Ruslan Codreanu.

The officials chose the modernisation of the mentioned area, as there are several historical monuments there.