The trolleybuses running on routes in Chisinau may be outfitted with air conditioning from next spring, when trolleybuses will start to be assembled in the capital city, Mayor General Dorin Chirtoaca said, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. “The trolleybuses must have air conditioning, but we cannot afford equipping them with such a system. Technically, the existing trolleybuses may be outfitted with air conditioning here, in Chisinau,” said the mayor. The head of the Electric Transport Company Gheorghe Morgoci said the 34 new trolleybuses that are yet to be brought from Belarus can be provided with air conditioning, but about US$10,000 more will be needed for a unit of transport. The Chisinau City Hall does not yet have this money. “It may happen in the future, but now we need more vehicles. If the new trolleybuses had had such a system, the Chisinau administration would have purchased 90, not 102 units of transport,” said Gheorghe Morgoci. A number of 68 new trolleybuses of the 102 bought by the Chisinau City Hall now run on routes. Another 34 vehicles are to be delivered by the end of September. Initially, the municipal administration announced that the 102 trolleybuses will start work before September 1. The Chisinau City Hall purchased the 102 trolleybuses from the Belarusian plant “Belkommunmash” within a project to modernize public transport that is financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank and the European Union. Under an agreement reached by the City Hall and “Belkommunmash”, new trolleybuses will be assembled in Chisinau from next spring.