Police talks with traffic-breaking couriers draw ridicule
Popular blogger Sergiu Ungureanu has mocked a police report about an “educational discussion” with employees of “one courier company” on the benefits of obeying traffic rules.
“That’s like SPIA going to Doina 102 and giving a lecture on corruption and integrity to the Škodas and stray dogs in the area,” Ungureanu said.
In his view, the police response to repeated courier violations looks like pure theatre. He noted that police had reported a “discussion” with couriers, while the photos from the event showed officers standing next to mopeds and a wall.
“The best part is that the ‘discussion’ seems to have involved a few mopeds and some police officers. Oh yes… and a wall too,” Ungureanu said sarcastically.
He argued that such “talks” change nothing. Couriers who ride along pavements and park paths, blind pedestrians and create dangerous situations continue exactly as before.
“Yes, of course they took that conversation seriously. They were riding mopeds along the pavement and blinding pedestrians before, and they’re still doing it now. They don’t care about traffic rules, and they don’t care what the nice policeman told them,” the blogger said.
Ungureanu says courier firms, not riders, should face fines
Ungureanu compared the effectiveness of such police actions to Daniela Misail-Nichitin’s app on Google Play and Victor Manole’s work at the National Public Security Inspectorate (INSP). In his view, the result is the same: zero.
The blogger says nothing will change until the companies running courier networks are hit with serious fines. He named specific firms and people: Speed Delivery (Elena Crudu, Oleg Lomov) and Maestro Delivery SRL (Alexei Donțu, Roman Chiriacov).
“The courier outfits listed above, along with the reckless riders, including those from Nepal, Bangladesh and India brought in by other ‘courier outfits’ through Moldo Personal don’t care about pedestrian safety, the nuisance they cause on pavements, or traffic rules,” Ungureanu wrote.
In his view, couriers feel untouchable because they know they pay “protection taxes” and benefit from Victor Manole’s inaction at INSP.
“Until the ‘courier outfits’ running these networks are seriously fined for the traffic violations committed by these adventurers, don’t expect anything to change,” the blogger concluded.
The dispute over traffic-breaking couriers is therefore about more than mopeds on pavements. It is about whether the authorities are willing to act against the businesses behind the problem, or whether they will keep staging harmless conversations while the same riders, the same routes and the same risks remain in place.
