Decebal street in Ungheni has moved into the works phase. The city hall says that on the morning of 3 July, installation of the storm-water drainage network began along the route — the first of the stages in rebuilding the stretch that leads to the free economic zone. “The rest will follow,” the administration notes.
This is the 1,003-metre section between the junction with Alexandru Cosmescu street and the one with Oleg Ungureanu street, in the Tineretului district — the part that provides access from the city to the “Ungheni-Business” free economic zone, one of the municipality’s busiest arteries. Along the 1,003 metres, the roadway is to be rebuilt, parking laid out, new gas and street-lighting networks installed, and an underground storm-water collection system put in — the part now getting under way. We covered the project, the money and its backstory in full when the works were announced.
The administration is pressing the contractor
The actual start came after Mayor Vitalie Vrabie held a meeting on 22 June with representatives of the contractor — the company SRL “Aedificator” — urging them to speed up the start of the works. On the morning of 3 July, the mayor returned to the site, where the contractor again gave assurances about the deadline.
The contractor gives assurances that the works will be completed by autumn.
Ungheni City Hall
The completion time set in the contract, however, is 11 months from the Work Commencement Order, according to the state agency MOLDPRES — longer than the “autumn” announced on the city hall’s own channel. The gap shows why a clear works schedule matters, which the administration says it has demanded.
What it costs and who pays
The rebuild is part of the project to modernise road infrastructure for access to the free economic zone, run by the government through the Centre Regional Development Agency. The total investment tops 25 million lei, of which about 22 million comes from the National Fund for Regional and Local Development, with the rest being Ungheni City Hall’s contribution. The works contract, signed on 13 March in Ialoveni with SRL “Aedificator”, stands at 21.93 million lei, according to MOLDPRES.
Until the works are finished, drivers who use Decebal towards the economic zone should expect restrictions and detours on the section under construction. It is an artery on which the city hall has concentrated several infrastructure projects in recent years, and the stretch to the economic zone was listed in a mayoral disposition as far back as April 2022.