Romania's first motorway and the main route connecting Bucharestwith Western Europe appears to be in permanent need ofrehabilitation. Every few months, traffic needs to be restricted oncertain sections because of holes in the road or because of"ditches" dug on the first lane by lorries, writes BusinessConstruct magazine.
Works on the Bucureşti-Piteşti Motorway, also called A1, beganin 1967 and were finalised in 1972. In other words, using thetechnology of the '70s, a 106-kilometre Motorway was finalised infive years' time. The Americans at Bechtel have just "celebrated"six years since works started on the Transilvania motorway, butthey can only "boast" 42 finalised kilometres and have othersections where works are under way. The A1 motorway does notresemble at all a European motorway, with representatives oftransportation companies saying this is in fact true of the entireroad infrastructure in Romania, with the A1 being no different fromthe other roads.
Romania currently has only 321.3 kilometres of motorway, built overmore than 40 years. Other sections are set to be completed by 2012,but nobody trusts the figures given by the Transportation Ministryany more.
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