OREANDA-NEWS. November 02, 2012. According to the Ministry of transport and Road Infrastructure of Moldova, 50 mln. leis are to be allotted to maintain primary roads and 20 mln. leis are to be assigned for secondary ones. Maintenance of 1 kilometre of a primary road costs 15 thou. leis in the winter period, whereas maintenance of 1 kilometre of a secondary road costs 3.4 thou. leis.

Besides, 80 thou. t. of anti-ice reagent were bought, including 20 thou. t. of technical salt. This year roads of Moldova willbe poured with the reagent which contains 30% to 50% of technical salt, depending on weather conditions and inline with directions. One run of road machines to pour reagents comes to 530-675 leis per km.

In the winter of 2011-2012 the Ministry of transport and Road Infrastructure assigned 66 mln. leis for road maintenance, including 51 mln. leis for primary and 15 mln. leis for secondary roads. In that period the maintenance of all national roads of Moldova came to 47 mln. leis , including 38 mln. leis for primary and 9 mln. leis for secondary roads.