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Romania begins 2021 with 910 kilometers of highway. Even last year we did not reach the 1,000 kilometer road threshold, but this year will still bring us closer to this milestone, which we have been struggling to achieve for years. However, it is not certain that it will be exceeded this year either. The good news is that in 2021 we could drive on the highway from Sibiu to Cluj-Napoca.
the 24 kilometers of the road between the junction Alba Iulia Nord and Aiud, The ones the Aktor Greeks have been working on since 2014 stand a good chance of being ready in the summer. The construction company has already done 78% of the necessary work, and with a good mobilization in June, we could have the first ribbon cutting this year.
“At the moment, it is the longest lot that is being worked on. I hope it will be completed to a certain point so that we can spread it. And we will have a complete road, even semi-profile in certain sections, but we will just continue highway from Cluj to Sibiu“Said Ionuț Ciurea, president of the Pro Infrastructure Association, for Digi24.
The rest of the work to be done should be ready for the summer. the first 17 kilometers from the same road. At the end of last year, the Italian construction company managed to reach the works with a section that would allow the safe opening of traffic on 15 kilometers of the highway. However, he also has to work on the straps at the intersections of Sebeș and Alba Iulia Nord.
Road Company bosses would like those around to be ready this year too 16 kilometers since Chețani and Câmpia Turzii, part of the Transilvania highway, where a Romanian constructor works with great economic problems. However, CNAIR data shows a works stage of up to 40%, which makes it almost impossible to open this lot until the end of December.
“Unfortunately, the Chețani-Câmpia Turzii batch is closer to completion than completion. I have a hard time believing that this entrepreneur still wants and can complete this contract and this can be seen in the way he works and the way he treats its subcontractors, both in structures and subcontractors in embankments, which are unpaid ”, shows Ionuț Ciurea.
From the Transilvania Highway with the possibility of being ready this year is the section Târgu Mureș-Ungheni. It is only about 9 kilometers long, of which only half are on the road profile.
The Road Chiefs also expect a ribbon cutting the Craiova-Pitești highway. Dorinel Umbrărescu’s companies have already completed more than half of the works on section 2, Robanesti and Valea Mare, which is 40 kilometers long.
“I have great confidence in the constructor of section 2 Craiova-Pitești and I am sure that he will finish the 40 km”, declared, in December, in an interview for HotNews, the general director of CNAIR, Mariana Ioniță.
So, In the best case scenario, Romania’s road network could expand by another 86 kilometers next year.
However, in response to Digi24, the highway chiefs refrained from assuming this goal. The reason: lack of budget for this year. “Since the budget for 2021 has not yet been approved, it is very difficult for us to communicate an estimate of the goals to be achieved in 2021,” said CNAIR representatives.
The new Transport Minister, Cătălin Drulă, said, upon taking office, that he was “tired to the core” of “this sport of kilometers of roads”, specifying that the more than 1,000 kilometers of roads and paths expressly provided for in the program Government to be completed in the 2021-2024 period include ongoing projects and not all will be completed in four years.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
