Services of local railway transport of passengers to be improved in Moldova
17:24 | 01.02.2023 Category: Official
Chisinau, 1 February /MOLDPRES/ - The government will contract operators of local railway passenger transport, in order to provide the residents with qualitative services and at an accessible price. The choosing of the railway enterprises providing obligations of public services will be made transparently, based on tenders of the bid of intents, preceded by negotiations, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.
At a today’s meeting, the cabinet of ministers approved a regulation on the public services of the passenger railway transport. The conditions as for the providing of public services, contracts of public services and their content, the ways of assigning of contracts of public services, railway rolling stock used in the transport services, control of the observance of the contracts’ clauses, the way of calculation of the compensation and the reporting as regards the public service obligations are regulated through this regulation.
Thus, the enterprises due to have the task to fulfill the obligations of local railway passenger transport are to carry travellers according to the routes established by the government and the disembarking/embarking of passengers should be ensured at all railway stations, including in the geographical regions where the Railway of Moldova state enterprise no longer provides services of carrying passengers or ensures the movement of trains with a low number of train routes.
In the second half of the 2023 year, decision-makers plan to launch a tender of bids of intent, after which, they will suggest that the government accepts the conditions negotiated and the conclusion of contracts on the obligations of public services. They can be concluded for a period of up to 15 years.
The contract on the obligations of public services, which is to be negotiated with potential beneficiaries, sees that the railway enterprises put into circulation modern rolling stock, equipped with comfortable furniture, air conditioning systems, room accessible for disabled people, sanitary areas in compliance with the sanitary standards, devices for the feeding of gadgets, devices which would post the train’s location, date about the next station, time, air temperature outdoors, air temperature in the railway carriage.
Also, local railway passenger transport operators will have to ensure the digitalization of the service of sale/return of tickets and the record of passengers in trains is to be carried out by electronic systems, in order to avoid the implementation of criminal schemes through the overvaluing of losses
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