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Prime Minister Iurie Leanca today participated in a ceremony on the opening of the Sarateni-Soroca highway

16-10-2014 15:13
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A road, which just two years ago, was full of holes and mud, looks like in the West now, with sidewalks, roundabouts, road markings, road drainage, street lighting and well-arranged stations.

 

Attending the event, U.S. Ambassador to Moldova William Moser said he had been very pleased to show to everyone that quality roads could be built in Moldova as well.

 

The project on restoration of the Sarateni-Soroca road, rebuilt within the Compact Programme, funded by the U.S. Government via the Millennium Challenges Corporation, included repair and construction of 14 bridges, sidewalks, rainwater collection channels and bus stations, as well as road illumination, installation of metal parapets, road indicators and reflective objects on dangerous sections. At the same time, a dimply crossroad – first in the country, has been constructed.

 

“A modern road offers to people not just comfort, but also opportunity to move faster and cheaper, an incentive to remain in the native village and start a business, which means jobs. All these actions and foreign support our country benefits from have one purpose – worthy and prosperous future of Moldova and its citizens. This is the future Moldova we are set to edify together,” Leanca concluded.

 

Specialists forecast that, once the road restored, the number of travellers, business in the area and respectively, jobs, will rise. During the road building works, construction and surveillance companies employed under contract 1,277 people, out of whom 70 per cent – Moldovans.

 

The project amounted to 100 million dollars. Moldova benefitted from projects worth 262 million dollars within the Compact Programme in all.

 

The works on restoration of the Sarateni-Soroca highway started in autumn 2012 and were carried out by a consortium of Turkish companies ONUR and SUMMA and Strabag Austrian company, internationally selected. The road reconstruction was carried out in accordance with the international standards.

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