New roads means more infrastructure for Romania

Romania has signed a RON 562.61mn (EUR 106.64mn) construction contract for a road connecting the Autostrada Transilvania (A3) and the DN1 in Tureni, Cluj county, central Romania, Digi24.ro reported on Friday, 28 July.

The expressway will include 7 bridges and viaducts, with the longest being a 258-metre viaduct with 6 openings over Valea Racilor.

The project has an 18-month deadline, National Road Infrastructure Administration Company (CNAIR) general director Cristian Pistol noted.

The contract was signed by project leader Association Dimex-2000 Company, Obras Publicas y Regadios, OPR Asfalt, Autotehnorom, and CON-A Operations.

The entire express road will be approximately 5km in length, with a traffic lane width of 3.5m, a 2.25m shoulder, and a 3m central section with lane dividers.

Road tender announced to border of EU hopeful Moldova

Pistol also announced a tender for the design and execution of a new bridge and road over the River Prut at Ungheni, Moldova.

The road will have 7 bridges and viaducts, the longest over the Racilor Valley, a 258m viaduct with 6 openings. The two-year contract lays out six months for design and eighteen months for execution.

The project will be financed by European Nonrefundable Funds and include the construction of an express road between the A8 motorway and the border crossing point at Moldova.

Romania serious on infrastructure

Romania recently inaugurated the EUR 700mn Braila Bridge, which Pistol said put the country into a new category of countries with leading road infrastructure and will exponentially develop the respective economies of Tulcea and Braila counties in south-eastern Romania.

The six-year project received EUR 363mn from the EU’s Cohesion Policy funds. With a centre span of around 1,120m, it is reportedly now the third longest in the EU, after the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark (1,624m) and Sweden’s Hoga Kusten Bridge (1,210m).