Bucharest’s traffic management system, inoperative

Bucharest’s traffic management system, which has been modernized following EUR 21 million investments and should have streamlined the traffic in the capital, stopped working last year. Since then, the car traffic in Bucharest has got a lot worse. The authorities haven’t solved the problem, because there is currently no maintenance contract for the system, after the previous maintenance contract expired and the authorities haven’t renewed it. Alina Roman, general director of Bucharest’s Street Administration, resigned on October 7, following the media reports about the failed traffic management system, reports local Mediafax. The system was installed between 2007 and 2009 and operated with breaks until 2014. The monitoring equipment was installed in 240 traffic intersections. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) financed most of the investment. The system broke last year, after some cable were accidentally cut during street maintenance work. Since then, the seven employees in charge with monitoring the traffic in Bucharest have been coming to work for nothing. The Bucharest Mayor’s office said that it would see to it that the system be restored as soon as possible. editor@romania-insider.com