[RO] Romanian Motorways and Highways • România - autostrăzi şi drumuri

[panda80]

november update pictures of transylvania motorway:
http://www.autostradatransilvania.ro...nstructie.html

[High Mileager]

[RawLee]

How can Brasov be both to the right and straight ahead?

[amst]

Well, technically when the motorway would be done you can reach brasov by the motorway via Sibiu and future expressway Sibiu - Brasov, or by the national road. It is stupid.

It's like you're driving on the M5 towards Budapest and you have an exit ai Kiskunfelegyhaza and you have Kecskemet on the M5 ahead or you can exit and reach Kecskemet on the 5 national road.

[wdw35]

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[panda80]

Originally Posted by amst

Well, technically when the motorway would be done you can reach brasov by the motorway via Sibiu and future expressway Sibiu - Brasov, or by the national road. It is stupid.

It's like you're driving on the M5 towards Budapest and you have an exit ai Kiskunfelegyhaza and you have Kecskemet on the M5 ahead or you can exit and reach Kecskemet on the 5 national road.

it's not quite the same because motorway+expressway in this case is not parallel with national road like in the hungarian example.however the sign is quite stupid as i think noone will choose to drive aprox270km motorway+expressway instead of 130km of national road.

[ChrisZwolle]

Originally Posted by wdw35

For the Romanian users, we are waiting for you to join and contribute to this new forum regarding road infrastructure development in Romania:

http://vremautostrazi.forumotion.net/

There is also an English section at the end of the forum.

Cheers!

Great, just registered. Romanian is quite understandable for me. Looks like a mix of French, Italian, English and Spanish.

[Verso]

Originally Posted by High Mileager

So you're coming from Bucharest, and here they sign you can leave the motorway and turn around to get back to Bucharest.

[ChrisZwolle]

Shouldn't Craiova be on that exit signage?

[wdw35]

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[Timon91]

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Hopefully I can contribute to the forum, but if I can't it's also handy I can follow the developements in Romania through the new forum, and learn some Romanian

[panda80]

Originally Posted by Timon91

Registered
Hopefully I can contribute to the forum, but if I can't it's also handy I can follow the developements in Romania through the new forum, and learn some Romanian

i already sent you an welcoming message, timon.

[Timon91]

And I replied

[x-type]

do romanian cities' names have some meaning? for instance, Rimnicu Valcea - i see abbrevitation Rm Valcea, so it could mean something. also, Cluj Napoca is often called only Cluj, does napoca mean something?

[ChrisZwolle]

Turnu Dobreta Severin is usually abbreviated as Tr D Severin I believe.

[panda80]

Originally Posted by x-type

do romanian cities' names have some meaning? for instance, Rimnicu Valcea - i see abbrevitation Rm Valcea, so it could mean something. also, Cluj Napoca is often called only Cluj, does napoca mean something?

yes, napoca was the roman name for the town.

[ChrisZwolle]

Why did they construct the Sibiu bypass along the northern side of town, instead of the shorter route via the southern side?

[panda80]

Originally Posted by ChrisZwolle

Turnu Dobreta Severin is usually abbreviated as Tr D Severin I believe.

the town is called drobeta turnu severin and is usually abbreviated Dr. Tr. Severin.turnu=tower, drobeta is the name of the tower and severin is the name of the region since medieval times.ramnic means fishing lake in older romanian language.

[panda80]

Originally Posted by ChrisZwolle

Why did they construct the Sibiu bypass along the northern side of town, instead of the shorter route via the southern side?

i think they choose the northern variant because it will also be useful for people travelling from bucharest to medias or sighisoara(DN15).on the south side there are no national roads, only county roads.on the other hand immediately south from sibiu there is a somehow protected area, called 'dumbrava sibiului'=sibiu's forest and terrain is more hilly.

[panda80]

Originally Posted by Verso

So you're coming from Bucharest, and here they sign you can leave the motorway and turn around to get back to Bucharest.

the sign is logic because is placed at the intersection of the motorway with national road 7 which also links pitesti with bucharest.you don't have ljubljana signed on a1 at the intersection with national road 10 near trojane, if u are coming from ljubljana on a1?