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As of 23 December 2024, there are 1,275.47 km of highways in service (of which 1,147.39 km motorways and 128.08 km expressways), [1] with another 620.85 km with signed contracts in various stages of execution, and another 771 km being tendered (20 December 2024).
DN1 (Romanian: Drumul Național 1) is an important national road in Romania which links Bucharest with the northwestern part of the country and the border with Hungary via Borș. The main cities linked by DN1 are Bucharest, Ploiești , Brașov , Sibiu , Alba Iulia , Cluj-Napoca and Oradea .
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.
It starts near the village of Bascov, near Pitești, and stretches 90 kilometres (56 mi) to the crossroad between the DN1 and Sibiu, between the highest peaks in the country, Moldoveanu and Negoiu. The road, built in the early 1970s as a strategic military route, connects the historic regions of Transylvania and Wallachia. [1]
This 120 km (75 mi) long section was initially planned as an expressway as an alternative to the National Road 1 between Sibiu and Făgăraș at 72.57 kilometres (45.09 mi) long and with an estimated cost of 614 mil. €. [2]
This is a list of cities and towns in Romania, ordered by population (largest to smallest) according to the 2002, 2011 and 2021 censuses. [1] For the major cities, average elevation is also given. Cities in bold are county capitals.
As of October 2015, section 1 (4.0 km) [33] and section 5 (6.3 km, plus a connecting road) [17] at the ends of the Comarnic – Brașov section were separately tendered. For section 1, a bid by Spedition UMB and Tehnostrade remained the only one, while the other tender was leaning towards a consortium led by the Spanish construction company Copisa.
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 ...