OREANDA-NEWS. September 24, 2010. This was announced by Deputy Mayor Vlad Cotet in the course of a roundtable, dedicated to the problems of city transport, held in the Chisinau City Hall. According to him, the rate for parking might be introduced again by the decision of the Chisinau Municipal Council that will speak on this matter at one of its nearest meetings.

In turn, Chairman of the Environmental Movement of Moldova Vladimir Garaba submitted the data of a social study, according to which the citizens are ready to pay for parking space a reasonable price – 1-4 lei per hour.

According to the study, the majority of respondents – 26,1% - consider payment for parking must be introduced only in the most crowded places; 24,8% - only in the Center of the city; 23,6% - everywhere; and the rest 25,5% - either oppose the introduction of rate, or didn’t decided yet. Besides, the majority of the respondents – 48,9% - consider necessary to introduce the automobile duty for the offices.

Most of respondent drivers hold the opinion that traffic jams, shortage of parking places day and night are the most serious problems. At the same time Vladimir Garaba noted that the municipal authorities might select the economic agents that will collect the rate for parking, fixed by the decision of the City Hall.