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Encouraged by the good weather and eager to breathe fresh air, on the second day of the year thousands of people got into their cars and set off for the mountain.
However, the same thought encouraged too many people and the national highway that connects the Capital with the Prahova Valley became an extremely slow moving convoy. People were trapped in the cars for five or six hours, exhausted from waiting.
DN1 again showed the inability of the authorities to build the roads. A journey that usually takes two hours took three times as long and exasperated people. Indeed, the names of prime ministers who have led governments in recent years have often been mentioned. And not in a positive context.
Gigi Petcu, pilot: “I really wasn’t expecting it today, Saturday. I said people are still resting with a glass of wine, after having a fuller belly. Yeah, I really wasn’t expecting it.”
Man from Turkey: “Turkey, it’s not like that, it doesn’t have traffic, it has an increasingly beautiful highway. Here in Romania it doesn’t even have a bus station.
DN1 was full over the holidays, but the column of cars has never been so long. People say that for every 20 meters they walked, they stayed 20 minutes. Not understanding what was happening to them, some sat and waited, waiting for the crowd to pass.
Driver: We realize exactly what is going on in traffic.
Reporter: Are you basically waiting to be released?
Driver: At least a little so we can drive.
And they pushed others to their needs.
Driver: I’m in a rush to get to the bathroom.
Reporter: Well, where is it full of people?
Driver: I don’t know, I can find it.
There were also some who approached surprisingly distant things.
Journalist: Where do you want to go?
Driver: We have been in Sinaia for about an hour and a half. Well, I think we got there at 5:30. At 7 we have to go back, just have a mountain air like that.
And those who finally arrived, sat in other queues. Images with the line from the chairlift appeared on social pages, and administrators even enlisted the help of gendarmes to ensure that everyone waiting respected the distance and wore masks.
The national highway to Transalpina also looked like a huge parking lot. Thousands of drivers set out with the idea of enjoying the view with the snowy landscape, in Rânca, one of the few snow centers. But people only saw an endless line of cars.
Driver: There is a queue.
Reporter: And don’t go up anymore
Driver: No, it’s full of people, we’ve had an hour and a half since we’ve been here and it doesn’t make sense.
Passenger: We return.
Reporter: By the queue.
Passenger: Yes, it is very bad.
Some, more patient, said that they would aspire to reach the mountain, even if they faced the epic of finding a parking space.
Passenger: We come from Pitesti, for the snow. Well what to do if it hasn’t snowed here.
Reporter: It melts until you get there.
Passenger: Well, I think we arrived at 12 at night and we had a barbecue scheduled, but what to do?
The queue of cars drove the locals from their homes, astonished that a convoy of cars formed at their doors.
Local: “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life, not even on the road.”
No one enjoyed the beautiful scenery in Transfăgărășan. The columns of cars stretched for four miles and people waited for hours for both descent and ascent.
In all this agglomeration, two tourists from Mediaş rode their ATVs on a ski slope, to the outrage of all. It happened in the Șureanu ski area, in the Sebes mountains. The gendarmes eventually imposed a fine of 500 lei each.
Another tourist had an unpleasant experience that drove into the ditch while moving to the base of the slopes in the same area. The gendarmes helped them put the car back on the wheels.
