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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.
Controlled-access highways in Romania are dual carriageways, grade separated with controlled-access, designed for high speeds.There are two types of highways, motorways (Romanian: Autostrăzi, sing.
The South Ring Motorway (51.3 km) was tendered as a concession contract in December 2012, that was supposed to be awarded in November 2013. [4] Yet, a new tender was announced in July 2017, that shall be completed between the end of 2017 and the first half of 2018, with an estimated cost of 580 million euros. [5]
It is divided into two major sections, the northern section and the southern section. The northern section has been widened to four lanes in 2010, [2] between the Chitila and the Voluntari junctions, [3] and a cable-stayed bridge was opened along the ring road in April 2011, in the Otopeni area, which overpasses the railway ring [4] (built by a joint-venture of the Spanish company FCC and the ...
The A6 motorway (Romanian: Autostrada A6) is a partially built motorway in Romania, planned to connect Bucharest with the Banat region, through the southern part of the country. [1]
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.
The construction of the motorway between Bucharest and Constanța began in the communist era during Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime. The first section, from Fetești to Cernavodă (about 18 km), was opened on 21 November 1987, simultaneous to the new railway bridge and underwent a major rehabilitation in 2003.
Bucharest has a fairly extensive subway system consisting of five lines (M1, M2, M3, M4, and M5) ran by Metrorex.In total, the network is 80.1 km (49.8 mi) long and has 64 stations, [1] with 1.5 km (0.9 mi) average distance between stops.