Romania To Have 123 Km Of Highway Open By End-Year - PM

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Thursday that the country will have "123 km of highway" by the end of the year, of which 90 km are already open for traffic.

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The Transylvania Highway is currently 52 km-long, Sibiu's ring road has highway status and is 17 km long and 21 km of the Bucharest-Constanta highway have been completed so far. Aside from this total of 90 km, Boc explained there are also a number of roads with highway status: Chitila-Voluntari (20 km), part of the Timisoara ring road (13 km), part of the Ploiesti ring road (13 km).

The 32 km-long Arad-Timisoara highway is scheduled to open later in the year.

Boc and Transport Minister Anca Boagiu on Thursday attended the official start of work on the Nadlac-Arad segment of the Timisoara-Lugoj Highway (65 km). The 9.5 km-long segment will be developed by a consortium made up of Spedition UMB SRL, Tehnostrade SRL and Carena SpA Impresa di Costruzioni through a contract worth 210.3 million lei (EUR48.5 million). The project is to be completed in April 2013.

(EUR1=RON4.3308)

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