The Employers’ Association of Road Transport Operators (APOTA) submitted proposals for amending the Road Transport Code to Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu, IPN reports.

The carriers request that transport programs in national traffic be worked out to cover the population’s real needs to travel by public transport and ensure that each locality has at least one functional round trip (direct or transit), included in the district or interdistrict transport program.

APOTA proposes that the district transport program be developed by district councils in consultation with transport operators, after requesting proposals from the mayor’s offices of district localities. The municipal/local transport program should be designed by the mayor’s offices in consultation with transport operators, after organizing public consultations with the people in the locality.

According to the carriers, in the case of the district road transport program, when introducing a new route, extending the route, increasing the number of trips, introducing stations or changing hours, when the proposed schedule includes stations that are in the schedules of routes served by other road transport operators, an interval of 15 minutes should be provided between departures from intermediate localities and end-route localities that are common to a route included in the district or interdistrict. transport program.

At the end of February, carriers mounted several protests and suspended routes. As a result, the Employers’ Association of Road Transport Operators received a message from the Parliament’s administration by which the carriers were urged to come up with proposals for amending the Road Transport Code.