Voters request to repair courtyard driveways

Residents of high-rise buildings raise the issue of repairing courtyards and intra-block passages during personal meetings with deputies, by means of social networks groups. For example, residents of Bendery yesterday posted a photograph of a huge hole near house No. 19 in 40 Let Pobedy (40 Years of Victory) Street. Residents say it is impossible to drive to the house and they have been waiting for the road to be repaired for a long time.

A number of deputies of the Supreme Council for urban districts consider that funding from the republican budget is needed annual and targeted in order to repair the road surface within neighborhoods. According to current legislation, the authorities only have the opportunity, and not the obligation, to allocate money from the Road Fund to repair courtyards and intra-block driveways. Therefore, budget money mainly goes to highways, republican and municipal. Whenever possible, remaining funds are used for travel.

All roads need to be repaired according to the President. The law-in-draft of Vadim Krasnoselsky on amending the law “On the PMR Road Fund” will soon be considered by the Supreme Council in the first reading. The opinions of deputies on this law-in-draft were divided into “for” and “against”.

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The issue of repairing intra-block passages needs to be approached systematically, the parliamentarian consider, so that every year money is allocated from the Road Fund to repair areas near high-rise buildings. First, we need to put in order the storm drains, which, by the way, are part of the road infrastructure and should be repaired from the Road Fund, says Anton Onufrienko. One of the storm drains in his Leninsky district has been clogged for decades and has not functioned. After rain, the water does not drain, each time destroying the asphalt more and more.

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Neighboring multi-storey buildings are suffering due to the lack of storm drainage. Valentina Leonidovna is the eldest at the entrance to house No. 5 in Pobeda Street. She says the building is shrinking because of the water.

Residents of the Leninsky microdistrict tell deputies about the problem. There’s no need to talk about it here, the condition of the courtyard driveways is in plain sight for everyone. The roadway cannot be repaired without proper funding. The problem is partly solved through the Voter Order Fund.

For example, deputy Anton Onufrienko directed funding to pave part of the courtyard of house No. 191 on Kommunisticheskaya Street with paving slabs. The passage to the kindergarten, which used to be full of holes, is safe now. Almost 200 thousand rubles from the Mandate Fund were spent on the arrangement of about 70 meters. There are hundreds of yards with destroyed asphalt in Bendery. Their repair requires large investments.

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Residents of the Shelkovy (Silk) microdistrict in Bendery have long been asking for the damaged asphalt to be repaired. Bendery resident Maria Karaku says that she contacted deputies regarding the repair of the roadway, but no separate funding is allocated for courtyard driveways as they told her.

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A similar situation is in the Severny (North) microdistrict of Bendery, where Ruslan Gareev is a deputy of the Supreme Council. Multi-storey buildings have been standing here since Soviet times; they were built for workers at a reinforced concrete pipe plant. The city's state administration is responsible for maintaining high-rise buildings now. Local authorities do not have enough money for yard passages.

Not only residents walk on broken asphalt, but also vehicles, including special vehicles drive. There is a branch of the clinic, a post office, and the Palace of Children and Youth Creativity in the microdistrict. There is no access to the building of the Children's and Youth Theater at all. Funding from the Road Fund is needed to make a roadway on this intra-block passage, says deputy of the Bendery City Council for the constituency Vitaly Bondar.

The tax from car owners is sent to the Road Fund, and the money is sent from there to the local budgets of cities and regions for roads according to their length. Today there is no funding for intra-block and courtyard driveways, where cars also travel, since by law the length of such intra-block driveways is not included in the total length of public roads in fact.

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The Bendery City Council has been funding a program to restore the entrances of high-rise buildings for several years to make exiting the entrances safe, said Vitaly Bondar. Destroyed asphalt is replaced with paving slabs. There are already holes in the yard area if you go further from the entrance.

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There are low-rise buildings dating back to the 1950s and 60s in Shelkovy microdistrict of Bendery. Fewer residents live here compared to high-rise buildings. Therefore, the authorities do not pay attention to problems with destroyed sidewalks and large holes in their yards, residents say. They dream when their day will come.