The General Mayor of the Capital, Sorin Oprescu, said that, in the future, he would launch the design and execution procedures for breakthroughs, road widenings and passages aimed at road traffic decongestion and optimisation. "The current traffic and town planning studies involve the transformation of the old traffic network system by modernising the arterial routes of penetration in Bucharest, breakthroughs, road widenings and passages aimed at road traffic decongestion and optimisation," reads a release of the City Hall of the Capital.

Bucharest City Hall officials want to rehabilitate 19 arteries more this year, saying they have already started the tendering procedures. The rehabilitation will cover the Aviatorilor blvd., the Charles de Gaulle Square, the Constantin Brezan St., the Mircea Eliade Blvd.(Radu Beller - Aviatorilor), the Pescarilor St., the Valea Lungă St., the Periş St., Avrig, Laminorului, Padina Alley, Cetatea de Baltă, Grigore Cobălcescu, Pădurea Pustnicu Path, Teişani Alley, Maior Vasile Băcilă, Bragadiru Path, Gara de Nord Square, Gara de Nord Blvd., and Răsăritului Blvd. "However, we want to extend the multi-annual maintenance programme to about 60 arteries more, for which technical experts' reports are under work and implementation solutions are being sought.

One of Bucharest's big problems is the parking lots, totally insufficient in comparison with the increase in the number of vehicles in recent years. "We envisage to make underground, above ground and residence parking lots. In 2009, 11,656 residence parking places were approved, also being taken into account the development of packages of such parking lots in four areas of interest: Moşilor Road - 7 packages, Colentina - 5 packages; Drumul Taberei - 7 packages and Iuliu Maniu - 7 packages," City Hall officials note, saying that they are at the stage of drawing up the forma