Bucharest-Ploiesti highway to be ready in December

The Bucharest-Ploiesti highway works are likely to be ready in December, the Romanian authorities have announced

October 2011 - From the Print Edition

At the site, both workers and machines have doubled in number, while officials have found the money to expropriate the remaining land plots in Pipera. Owners will receive up to EUR 20 per sqm.
Currently, half of the total highway works are finished. Works from Colentina to the ring road were not started because the state had no money for the expropriations. Between 2009 and 2010, the Ministry of Transportation completed road infrastructure projects totaling EUR 3.5 billion, with money coming from the state budget, but the number of new kilometers of highway in the same period was only 52 (from the Campia Turzii-Turda-Gilau section). However, the institution promises a few hundred kilometers of highway will be completed in the coming years after work began on more than 200 km the second half of the 2010.
Last month, the Highway and National Roads company signed a contract with Italian-German consortium Astaldi-Max Boegl worth RON 498.8 million, excluding VAT, for the design and construction of the Cernavoda-Medgidia section of highway. The road is scheduled to open to traffic in 2012. The design will take three months and the construction another twelve months. The warranty works period has been set for 48 months, according to the company. The contract value is RON 726.2 million, less than the estimated figure. The 20.5km highway section construction is being financed by EIB funds and Cohesion Funds