Romania occupies last place in EU regarding motorways

The Romanian National Company of Motorways and National Roads (CNANDR) is announcing the opening of four works on the following motorway sections belonging to the Pan-European Corridor IV, which will connect Bucharest to Nădlac, as shown in a press release.

The works on the construction site of motorway Nădlac-Arad lot 1 (km 0 of the Nădlac Arad motorway, bordering the Ukraine), lot 2 of the same section (junction in Arad, bypass intersection in Arad), motorway Timişoara-Lugoj lot 1 (junction in Giarmata, intersection with Arad-Timişoara motorway), as well as the construction work of motorway Orăştie – Sibiu lot 4 (intersection with County Road 143b) will be opened.

According to CNADNR, these motorway sections will be completed within one year and a half, with a 4-year warranty period.

The works will be funded through non-reimbursable European funds (85 percent) and from the state budget (15 percent).

From April until the present day, works on various motorway sections have progressed.

Consequently, the sections between Nădlac and Arad, Timişoara and Lugoj, Orăştie and Sibiu, Cernavodă and Medgidia are now under construction.

A 21-kilometre portion of the Medgidia – Constanţa section of motorway A2 was opened on 30 July 2011.

Motorway A1 is part of the European transport corridor IV and, at the moment, the sections connecting Bucharest to Piteşti are functional, as well as an approximately 17-km fragment bypassing the northern area of the town of Sibiu.

After the works are completed, the motorway will connect Bucharest to Pitești, Sibiu, Sebeș, Deva, Lugoj, Timișoara, Arad and Nădlac, and, finally, to Hungarian motorways.

Map of Romanian motorways for the month of October 2011. Click on the photograph for a larger view.

The motorway A2 connects Bucharest to Constanţa, adding up to a total distance of almost 197 kilometres.

The sections Bucureşti - Cernavodă and Medgidia – Constanţa have been opened.

At the end of the previous year, Prime Minister Emil Boc opened ten more kilometres of the Transilvania Motorway – the section between Turda and Câmpia Turzii.

The total length of the Transilvania motorway is 415 km, out of which only 52 kilometres have been finished.

Map of Romanian motorways before April 2011. Click on the photograph for a larger view.

Romania still occupies last place within the EU regarding motorways

According to the data provided by the European Institute of Statistics, Eurostat, Romania occupies last place at the level of the European Union regarding the number of kilometres of motorway per thousand square kilometres of land area.

Therefore, Romania has one kilometre of motorway per thousand square kilometres.

In this hierarchy, our country is followed by Estonia, Finland and Poland, each having two kilometres of motorway per thousand square kilometres.

Bulgaria, Sweden, Lithuania, Ireland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have less than 10 kilometres of motorway per thousand square kilometres.

The most dense motorway networks in Europe are located in Holland, Belgium, Western Germany and Great Britain.

With regard to national level statistics, Holland owns the most dense motorway network, with 77 km/1,000 km2, followed by Belgium (58 km/1,000 km2) and Luxembourg (57 km/1,000 km2).

Lower in the hierarchy are: Germany, Slovenia, Cyprus and Spain, each owning 35 per thousand square kilometres.

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Translated by: Cristina Baciu
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University