A very busy stretch of Ștefan cel Mare street in Ungheni — the one between the former biochemical plant and the junction with Podurilor street — is close to having a pavement, for the first time on this section, according to City Hall. The municipal administration announced on 14 August that the work is “in the final stretch” and should be finished in time for the city’s festival, traditionally held at the end of August, around the patron saint’s day on 28 August.
The construction of the pavement itself is almost complete, according to the local administration; the road markings, the shaping of the shoulder — the strip between the roadway and the edge of the road — and other additional works still remain. Mayor Vitalie Vrabie inspected the site again and said he was pleased with the solutions found for building the pavement. The work was “extremely complicated”, but it was carried through “with flying colours” by the staff of «Servicii Comunale Ungheni», City Hall said.
Mayor Vitalie Vrabie inspected the works on the Ștefan cel Mare pavement again. Photo: Ungheni City Hall.
A project started in the summer
This is not a new site. We wrote about this pavement back in June: on the stretch where until now pedestrians walked along the edge of the roadway, a paved path 2 metres wide is being built, and once it is finished Ștefan cel Mare street will have a pavement from one end to the other. The work is done by «Servicii Comunale Ungheni» — a company with entirely municipal capital (a limited liability company wholly owned by the Municipal Council), the same one that runs the city’s public transport, waste collection and other communal services.
The money does not come from savings, but from a list of roads that the Municipal Council approved for 2026 and that the city is paying for on credit: through an issue of municipal bonds of up to 10 million lei for the whole programme. The decision does not publish a separate cost for each object, so, for the Ștefan cel Mare pavement too, there is as yet no broken-down figure made public.
One detail has changed since the first announcement: in June, the length of the stretch was given as 770 metres; now, City Hall speaks of “about 800 metres” — a difference of a few dozen metres, most likely a figure rounded off as the work progressed.
What residents say
In the comments on the announcement, many residents welcomed the work — “a strip of pavement needed for pedestrians’ safety”, one of them wrote. The surrounding neighbourhood, known in town as the “Biochimica area”, after the former plant that gave it its name, had until now been left without a pavement on this stretch.
There were practical questions too. One resident was worried about how rainwater would drain off the roadway now that the pavement is being raised along the edge of the road; the shaping of the shoulder is, in fact, among the works City Hall has left for the end.
For pedestrians on Ștefan cel Mare, the change is concrete: on a stretch where until now they walked along the edge of the roadway, in a few weeks they should have a pavement — in time, City Hall is aiming, for the city’s celebration.
The stage details — the stretch, the dimensions, the state of the work and the deadline — come from the official announcement by Ungheni City Hall of 14 August 2026. The financing through municipal bonds and the pavement’s inclusion in the list of roads modernised in 2026 are confirmed by Decision No. 4/25 of the Ungheni Municipal Council of 15 May 2026, published in the State Register of Local Acts; the same decision does not publish a separate cost per object. The date of the city’s patron saint’s day (28 August) comes from City Hall’s cultural programme. The reactions belong to citizens’ comments on the City Hall’s post.