Motorways

[zenden]

Finally a thread about romanian motorways
This thread is about all motorway-linked discussions,news,projects in Romania

[zenden]

A map of all existing and proposed motorways in Romania:

From wikipedia:
Trunk Motorway Route Planned (km) / Built (km)
(December 2007)
A1 motorway Bucharest - Piteşti - Râmnicu Vâlcea - Sibiu - Deva - Timişoara - Arad - Nădlac > Hungary 620 / 127 under construction; estimated completion date: 2014.
Bucharest - Piteşti and the Piteşti bypass is operational; Sibiu bypass is under construction; funding is ensured for the Arad - Timişoara and Deva - Orǎştie sections.
Sun motorway Bucharest - Feteşti - Cernavodă - Constanţa 204 / 152 operational section: Bucharest - Cernavodă. Cernavodǎ - Constanţa to be completed in 2010
Transilvania motorway Bucharest - Ploieşti - Braşov - Sighişoara - Târgu Mureş - Cluj-Napoca - Zalău - Oradea - Borş > Hungary 588 / 0 sections under construction: Bucharest - Ploieşti and Braşov - Borş; work started in July 2004; estimated completion date: 2013; Turda - Gilǎu sector (42 km - Cluj-Napoca bypass) ready by Q4 2008; Bucharest - Ploieşti section ready by 2010
East-West Motorway Moldova > Iaşi - Târgu Frumos - Săbăoani - Târgu Neamţ - Poiana Largului - Ditrău - Târgu Mureş > junction with A3 300 / 0 planned; construction to start in 2008, estimated completion 2013
Moldova Motorway Ploieşti - Buzău - Focşani - Albiţa > Moldova 314 / 0 planned until Focşani; estimated completion date: 2016.
Existing motorways in bold

[tomis3]

That is one ugly map.

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Currently, the A1 (Autostrada A1 ) is a 127-kilometer motorway linking Bucharest, the capital of Romania, with Piteşti, a city in Argeş County. The A1 was the first freeway to be built in Romania, constructed in the 1960s during the Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej communist regime and upgraded in 2000.

The motorway is to be expanded to 620 km by 2014, connecting the capital city of Bucharest to the Banat region in western Romania and furthermore to central european motorway system.

As of 2008 only Bucharest-Pitesti section is operational:

[commodore]

A1, April 25, 2008:

[Rhemaxos]

The re-tendering of the remaining works on the first section of Sibiu Motorway bypass is coming to an end. The succesful bidder is JV Max Boegl - Geiger - Comtram and the contract should be awarded in the coming period.

The accepted contract amount is 48.816.180,35 Euro (witout VAT) and the works should be concluded in 18 months.

The current status of the works (as left by Todini in 2006) is presented below:

[commodore]

cheers for the pics and for the update

[COTNARI]

it's nice, but just a single track railway?

it's still a european corridor ...

[Le Clerk]

The ringroad will cost 121 million, works will start next year and completion will be in 2012.


Cotidianul
08/05/2008

FCC/Astaldi va construi centura-autostradă a Constanţei


De la demararea licitaţiei, anul trecut, până la începerea lucrărilor se vor scurge cel puţin doi ani. Terminarea autostrăzii, care va costa cel puţin 121 de milioane de euro, va avea loc în 2012.

Licitaţie începută în 2007, constructor ales în 2008, lucrări demarate în 2009 şi terminate, în cel mai bun caz, în 2012, cam acesta este graficul Companiei Naţionale de Autostrăzi şi Drumuri Naţionale din România (CNADNR) pentru realizarea a 22 de kilometri de autostradă în jurul Constanţei. Compania a primit miercuri şapte oferte pentru construirea şi proiectarea autostrăzii, cea mai convenabilă fiind cea depusă de asocierea ibero-italiană FCC/Astaldi. Aceasta a avut cea mai avantajoasă ofertă financiară dintre cei şapte participanţi. FCC/Astaldi a cerut 437 de milioane de lei pentru lucrări (121 milioane de euro), iar Mota Engil/Monte Adriano/Soares da Costa a avut cea mai dezavantajoasă ofertă, solicitând 952 de milioane de lei. Alte oferte au venit din partea firmelor sau asocierilor Impregilo/Itinera, Salini Constructtori, J&P Avax, Colas şi Aktor. Autostrada va porni de la nodul rutier cu DN 2A, în vecinătatea oraşului Ovidiu, şi se va sfârşi la poarta 9 a Portului Constanţa. Proiectul prevede realizarea a cinci noduri rutiere şi a 21 de lucrări de artă.

Semnarea contractului cu FCC/Astaldi va avea loc probabil de abia în iunie, urmând ca, după aceea, asocierea să realizeze proiectul tehnic. Dacă exproprierile şi mutările de utilităţi vor decurge bine, lucrările vor începe în primăvara anului viitor şi vor dura trei ani. Doi ani este perioada de garanţie pentru lucrare. Finanţarea lucrărilor este mixtă, respectiv dintr-un credit al Băncii Europene de Reconstrucţie şi Dezvoltare (BERD) şi din surse bugetare. Deşi partea română plăteşte dobândă pentru împrumutul dat de BERD, fiecare pas al licitaţiei trebuie aprobat de către bancă, iar acceptul acesteia este primit deseori după luni întregi. Aceasta este una dintre explicaţiile întârzierilor majore înregistrate de proiect.

[Le Clerk]

Here's the Bulgarian planned Motorways by 2020. They have 4 border points with Romania covered by motorways. AFAIK, only 2 are currently planned by the Governement: Giurgiu and maybe the Black Sea connection. Are there any plans for the other 2?



OH, yeah, I remember now: there are plans for this, but only after 2015:

[commodore]

C'mon, Bucharest - Giurgiu is far for being a motorway. There are lot's of roundabouts even intersections not to mention that aren't any exitways.
Is just a good expressway and that's it. And I doubt it can be ever turned into a motorway.

[Le Clerk]

Sure, but AFAIK, there has to be a motorway from Bucharest to Giurgiu by 2015.

[Fallen]

I just visited the "Hungarian motorways" link from RawLee's signature.
Wow, you have a lot of motorways, with a good coverage of the country, and links to most of your neighbours.
I can only dream about having something similar in Romania

What's the distance(in time - hours) between Budapest and Vienna/Wien by car?

[RawLee]

Originally Posted by Fallen

What's the distance(in time - hours) between Budapest and Vienna/Wien by car?

About 2 and a half hours...Viamichelin says 244km,google maps 243km...of which 234km is on motorway...

[ionutzyankoo]

The connection of M49 at Petea will be with the expressway Petea-Satu Mare-Baia Mare which is in Project phase.
Hungary indeed has an extended network of motorways or u/c motorways but for example the connection on railway at Lokoshaza is not a priority (they focused on roads but somehow neglected railways-we will have in 2 years about 400 km of upgraded line at aprox 160kmh)

And RawLee can u tell us how many kms of motorway hungary had in 1990 to make a comparison

[RawLee]

Originally Posted by ionutzyankoo

Hungary indeed has an extended network of motorways or u/c motorways but for example the connection on railway at Lokoshaza is not a priority (they focused on roads but somehow neglected railways-we will have in 2 years about 400 km of upgraded line at aprox 160kmh)

It's being upgraded...Budapest-Vienna ready,Budapest-Szolnok u/c,Szolnok-Lökösháza u/c,Szolnok-Debrecen next year,and a bunch of smaller projects.

And RawLee can u tell us how many kms of motorway hungary had in 1990 to make a comparison

But why dont we switch back to Romania?

[Cosmin]

RawLee is anti-Hungarian.

[RawLee]

Originally Posted by Cosmin

RawLee is anti-Hungarian.

I'd be a good nationalist in one of the neighbouring countries
I just believe that everything should be discussed in its respective thread...in this case,even the subforum was wrong. I dont mind talking about it,but to hijack your thread...

[Le Clerk]

You haven't hijacked the Romanian thread, don't worry. We are neighbours and are interested in the motorway developments at the border.

BTW: the current gov's priority is to link Romania to Hungary by motorways. Hope the following one will speed up the priority.

[RawLee]

BTW,I've just noticed a 4th connection on a very-very vague "map"...but the plans I've found for it only last until Békéscsaba...but sources suggest that it will cross border(if ever will) around Gyula/Zerind...its designated M44 here...