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A yellow asphalt paver lays a fresh layer of asphalt on Burebista Street in Ungheni, with workers around it and a dump truck feeding the machine.
LOCAL

Burebista Street in Ungheni: paving begins on a second, 700-metre section, funded from the local budget

On the very day the 1 July deadline cited for the 10.3-million-lei project ran out, Mayor Vitalie Vrabie said the “Europe Is Close” works are continuing, while the city hall separately began paving a second section of Burebista Street — more than 700 metres between Petru Rareș and Zamfir Arbore, from the local budget. Arcașii lui Ștefan and Mihai Viteazul streets are next.

Ion Calmis·1 July 2026· News
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Aerial view of the metal railway bridge over the river Prut at Ungheni, with the rail line and the locality around it, in summer.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

The electrification of the railway to Ungheni has gone to tender: a contract of nearly 290 million lei, with bids due by 5 August

Romania's national railway (CFR) has published, in the Electronic Public Procurement System (SEAP), the notice for the design and construction of the electrification of the Iași–Border line — the concrete step our explainer a week ago flagged as the «next» one. The contract, estimated at 289.55 million lei excluding VAT, covers the Socola–Ungheni section and is the Romanian half of the joint project with the Republic of Moldova, which is to give Bessarabia its first kilometre of electrified railway — right through Ungheni. The deadline for bids: 5 August 2026.

Ion Calmis·30 June 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
Illustration: a household tap with the last drop of water dripping out, against a dried-out garden under a strong summer sun, with no identifiable people.
LOCAL

Three hours of water a day across four sectors: Sculeni rations water amid the heatwave

At the peak of the heatwave, Sculeni commune’s City Hall and the “Servicom Sculeni” utility have put water on a ration. From Tuesday, 30 June, the village was split into four sectors, each getting water for only three hours a day, between 9.00 and 18.00. The reason, the authority says: huge consumption for watering gardens and irresponsible use of the network, which collapsed the pressure. Water trouble in Sculeni is not new — the council passed decisions on it in both 2024 and 2025.

Ion Calmis·29 June 2026· News
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Aerial view of the steel railway bridge over the Prut River at Ungheni, with the railway track and the surrounding locality, in summer.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

The railway bridge over the Prut at Ungheni goes under technical assessment — a step toward Moldova's first electrified railway stretch

After Bucharest approved the electrification of the Iași–border line, the Moldovan side got to work: on 25 June, representatives of the Railway of Moldova met in Iași with their Romanian counterparts to coordinate the Iași–Ungheni line project. Among the agreed steps — the technical assessment of the bridge over the Prut, which is to be reconstructed, and preparing the systems for the future electrification, to European standards.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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An old, rusty cast-iron water main dug up in a muddy trench in the middle of a street; water leaks from a joint, with a worn manhole cover nearby.
PUBLIC SERVICES

Ungheni's water is being modernised for tens of millions, yet it keeps breaking: 270 failures in a year on half-century-old pipes

Two outages in two days, on different streets, and the operator itself admits in the notice that „failures on the distribution network cannot be anticipated”. The explanation is in the figures: Ungheni municipality has about 139 kilometres of water pipes, more than 80% of them cast iron and steel aged 45–60 years, and in 2024 there were nearly 270 unplanned failures — around five a week. The big money invested in „Ungheni's water” (a project of about 32 million lei, plus European funds) went, however, to the source and to transport — the treatment plant, the trunk main, monitoring — not to replacing the pipes under the streets. That is why the water is both being modernised and constantly cut off.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· Explainer
A modern electric train on a new line with overhead catenary, at dawn, approaching a border railway station.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

Ungheni would be the start of Moldova's first European-gauge railway: the study of the 140 km/h line to Chișinău has begun in Brussels

In Brussels, at the launch of the EU's Connectivity Agenda Platform, the Republic of Moldova, the European Commission and the European Investment Bank recorded the start of preparing the feasibility study for an entirely new electrified railway with European gauge on the Ungheni–Chișinău route. Trains designed for at least 140 km/h, able to run without changing axles at the border — and the starting point is Ungheni itself. It is the step that carries inland the electrified line from Iași we wrote about last week. For now it is only a study: the real cost and timeline will come out of it.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Two workers in t-shirts reading «Servicii Comunale Ungheni» laying paving stones on a new pavement, next to a wheelbarrow of mortar and pallets of pavers, at the edge of a street.
LOCAL

770 metres of pavement with a bike lane on Ștefan cel Mare: a busy Ungheni street will finally have a sidewalk end to end

On a busy stretch of Ștefan cel Mare street in Ungheni — from the former biochemical plant to Podurilor street — a pavement is being built for the first time: 770 metres, with a bike lane, after which the street will have a sidewalk along its whole length. The work is done by the municipal company «Servicii Comunale Ungheni», and it is one item on a list of roads the city is financing in 2026 with borrowed money, through municipal bonds — while residents of other streets are asking for pavements too.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· News
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A grey-haired man in a white shirt and glasses gestures while talking with a technician at the edge of a road on the outskirts of town; a wheat field and apartment blocks stand in the background.
LOCAL

Over 25 million lei for Ungheni's Decebal street: works begin on 24 June

Ungheni City Hall reopens the construction site on Decebal street, in the Tineretului neighbourhood, on 24 June. A 1,003-metre stretch leading to the free economic zone, planned since 2022, is being rebuilt for more than 25 million lei, mostly from government funds.

Ion Calmis·22 June 2026· News