An advantageous Union. Not for Iasi and Moldova!
Dorian Obreje
Thus, about five days before January 24, 2023, the honorable residents of Iași were warned that some noises will be heard above the city, but do not be alarmed, that they have nothing to do with the events in Ukraine, but are explained through rehearsals . an air flyover scheduled for Union Day, in which aircraft capable of striking fear into the Russians, such as IAR 330 (helicopters) and IAR 99 (planes), were to take part; the enthusiastic press even adds, stating “the sky will be full of planes”…
Neither on the 19th nor on the 24th of January, however, I, for one, did not open my mouth to heaven, preferring to keep my feet on the ground. And noting, all of a sudden, a great rush to start the works on the Moldova Motorway – A7, which stretches from Ploieşti to Siret (past Focşani, Bacău, Paşcani, Suceava), a 450 km route, and from there . you can reach, for example, Chernivtsi, Khmelnytskyi, Viniţa, Zhitomir and…Kyiv! Um, could it be strategic interests? According to the statements, The A7 should be ready in 2026. A moment is probably needed, because the “Iași Memorial”, in other years point 13 requested “to speed up the construction of roads in Moldova, especially between Iași and Bucharest”, was handed to Carol I precisely in 1866, and the last part of the phrase has been forgotten. As it passed in the background and with an increasingly distant waiting horizon (the Chamber of Deputies had to intervene to decide “completion date of 31 (!?) December 2030, four years later than originally planned for) the A8 motorway – Ungheni-Iasi-Pașcani-Târgu Neamţ-Ditrău-Târgu Mureș, which are just over 300 km. At least if the date is set for December 1, because otherwise the A8 is nicknamed, pompously, the “Autostrada Unirii”…
So, at least in terms of road, the people of Iași have waited until a connection in line with our times with the south and west of the country. In terms of railways, things are not better either, the 400 km between Iaşi and Bucharest being covered by trains in about 7 hours, mainly due to the non-modernized infrastructure, but also the abandonment of electrification of the route (there were no poles, no wires, no will). . The distance between IASI and Timisoara North on railway it is 848 km and is covered by train in 18 hours. Traveling by plane is also a bit expensive; Iasi-Bucharest, one hour. But about the same amount is done from Dacia to the Iași airport, plus the state in the terminal, plus the road from Otopeni to the Capital. There would be another solution, circulated for about two centuries.
The Organic Regulation (1832), imposed by the Russians, provided for the cleaning of the beds of the Siret and Bahlui and the joining of the two rivers through a canal. Bahluiul would thus have received an additional water port, and Iasi would have been crossed by a waterway considered essential for trade. The idea was taken up again after the Little Union, when Mihail Kogălniceanu asked for the construction of the Bahlui – Prut navigable canal, but even more so nowadays, especially in the electoral campaigns.
All in all, Iași continues to be isolated from the country and from Europe. The sacrifice made by our city for the Union went unrewarded in any way. Or just in a kind of mockery, if we remind that, in 1880, however, Parliament voted a law by which the city receives a reward of 10 million old lei “as compensation for the loss of the right to the Capital”. It is difficult to find out if the law was applied…And there is much more to be said on the subject of the futile sacrifice, but that on other occasions, less festive.
“Moldova Regional Event” announcement points in Iasi
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