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There are two types of highways, motorways (Romanian: Autostrăzi, sing. Autostradă) and expressways (Romanian: Drumuri expres, sing. Drum expres), with the main difference being that motorways have emergency lanes and slightly wider lanes. The maximum allowed speed limit for motorways is 130 km/h (81 mph), while for expressways the limit is ...
This section of the motorway is fully operational and is composed of two segments: Bucharest – Pitești and Pitești bypass. The Bucharest – Pitești segment (95.9 km) is the first motorway class road built in Romania and remained the only one for more than 15 years, until the completion of the Fetești – Cernavodă segment on the A2 motorway in 1987.
Timișoara has the oldest and the densest railway network in Romania, with over 91.9 km (57.1 mi) of lines for 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi) of territory, although some of the components are no longer operational due to low demand and lack of maintenance. [124] Therefore, Timișoara is the most important rail hub in Timiș County and in western Romania.
A2 motorway (Romania) The A2 motorway (Romanian: Autostrada A2), also known as The Motorway of the Sun (Romanian: Autostrada Soarelui), is a motorway in Romania which links Bucharest with Constanța, a city-port on the shore of the Black Sea, where it merges after an interchange into the A4 motorway. [3] It is 206 km long, [1][2] and has been ...
The Bucharest Ring Motorway (or the Bucharest Belt Motorway, Romanian: Autostrada Centura București), termed A0, [1] is a motorway ring in construction around the city of Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It is intended to be the outer ring of the existing Bucharest Ring Road. It is split into two sections: the South Ring Motorway and the ...
The A7 motorway (Romanian: Autostrada A7), [1] also known as the Ploiești–Siret Motorway (Romanian: Autostrada Ploiești–Siret) or the Moldavia Motorway (Romanian: Autostrada Moldovei), [2] is a partially built motorway in Romania, that upon completion will link Ploiești to the north-eastern part of the country, partly along the Pan-European Corridor IX.
A3 motorway (Romania) The A3 motorway (Romanian: Autostrada A3) is a partially built motorway in Romania, planned to connect Bucharest with the Transylvania region and the north-western part of the country. It will be 596 km long and will run along the route: Ploiești, Brașov, Făgăraș, Sighișoara, Târgu Mureș, Cluj-Napoca, Zalău and ...
The city area measures 240 km 2 (93 sq mi) and comprises 6 districts , while the metropolitan area covers 1,811 km 2 (699 sq mi). Bucharest is a beta global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459.