The group of the Electoral Bloc “Europe People’s Platform - Iurie Leanca” (PPEM) on the Municipal Council has launched the campaign “Advanced Transport in Chisinau”, which is aimed at solving the problems related to the quality of public transport in Chisinau and its suburbs. Thus, during three months the councilors of the PPEM will go through the municipality to collect petitions about the public transport from people. Afterward, these will be submitted to the Chisinau City Hall and the councilors will demand that the officials in charge deal with the identified problems, IPN reports.
According to a press release of the party, the campaign was launched as a result of a number of meetings held with residents of the municipality in 2015, where there were identified the main problems these face in the area of public transport. A poll will be carried out within the campaign, including online, to find out the shortcomings existing in the municipal transport.
When the process of collecting petitions and the poll are over, the councilors of the PPEM will present the results of the campaign and will monitor how quickly the quality of municipal transport improves. The PPEM will also demand to rerun the tender contests to distribute minibus routes and to restore the bus routes that were earlier annulled.
“The Urban Bus Company is in a disastrous situation. About 90 vehicles start to run on routes in the morning, but each fifth bus returns to the depot because they are in a bad state of repair. But this is a municipal enterprise and a business entity whose goal is to make profit,” said PPEM councilors Veaceslav Bulat.
The PPEM said following meetings with Chisinau inhabitants last year, the party’s group on the Municipal Council sent over 100 complaints to the specialized services of the Chisinau City Hall, with 30 of these being related to the municipal transport.
