Chisinau city hall makes inventory of quality of public transport stations, demands cancellation of some contracts

Chisinau, 11 February /MOLDPRES/ - The Chisinau city hall has made an inventorying of the quality of the public transport stations and demanded cancellation of several public-private partnership contracts.  

The Chisinau deputy mayor, Victor Chironda, noted, on social networks, that the situation of the public transport stations was disastrous and asked to cancel some public-private partnership contracts.

„The situation is disastrous. We presently have three types of stations out of an overall number of 546 stations from Chisinau: the stations destroyed of Epa-Media – a scheme from 2007, through which one economic agent became owner of 267 stations which it left them to degrade completely. The commercial pavilions – another scheme, through which 128 stations turned from “stations with trade points” into “commerce pavilions with two chairs.” Over 150 stations exist only on paper; there is no roof or chairs there,” Chironda noted.  

The deputy mayor also said that he had demanded the initiation of procedures of cancellation of contracts with all economic agents which constructed commercial pavilions instead of waiting stations. Referring to the public-private partnership contract with Epa-Media, Chironda said that this contract would expire in 2021 and that, till then, all steps would be made to cancel it. “Such “public-private partnerships” compromise the principle of public-private partnership itself,” the deputy mayor said.      

At the same time, contacted by MOLDPRES, the legal representative of the manager of the Epa-Media Ltd company with foreign capital, Ana Neagu, said that Epa-Media had repaired, successively during years, the stations owned by it and invested tens of millions of lei. “We dialogued successively with the contract partners; yet, without so many results,” Neagu said.    

The Epa-Media representative voiced hope that, along with the new local administration, a common solution would be found to unlock the current situation. “The contract is obsolete and does not meet the present realities; we show willingness to revise it for the benefit of the Chisinau municipality’s citizens,” Ana Neagu added.