Romania short on motorways because of wasting money on less important roads

The 30 biggest contracts awarded by the National Motorways and National Roads Company in Romania (CNADNR) in the past four years are worth a total of nearly 1.7 billion euros, but only eight of them, worth more than 400 million euros were for works on motorways or on bypasses. Over this period, CNADNR had nearly 9 billion euros at its disposal.
The bulk of contracts that the institution sealed between 2007 and 2010 entail modernising or rehabilitation of national roads, as well as multi-annual maintenance of the road network in several counties.
In fact, the most valuable contract attributed by CNADNR during this period was the one for the modernisation of a 148-kilometre section of national road 67C between Bengeşti and Sebeş, a contract amounting to nearly 335 million euros.
2010 was the slowest year in terms of contracts awarded by the national motorways and roads company, with just one contract standing out in terms of value, at nearly 180 million euros excluding VAT. In fact, this was the only contract for the building of a proper motorway awarded last year, won by a partnership between Strabag and Straco Grup.