Paneuropean corridor IV, the priority objective of the Ministryof Transportation and Infrastructure over the next few years, couldbe fully completed as late as ten years from now, considering thatthe Sibiu-Piteşti section is still hanging in the air.
The Nădlac-Constanţa motorway, which crosses Romania from westto east has seen only around 280 kilometres completed of the over850 it will ultimately have.
So, works are ongoing only for the Piteşti-Bucharest sections(111 km), Bucharest-Cernavodă (151 km) and Sibiu's ring road (20.8km).
Whilst in the past few months the Ministry of Transportation andInfrastructure took action to ensure at least the auctions for theother sections would kick off in the coming period, theSibiu-Piteşti section remains an unknown, considering the extremelyhigh costs, estimated at around 3.2 billion euros, for which nosource of funding has been found yet.
In other words, this section alone accounts for over 35% of thetotal costs of 8.5 billion euros, as estimated by CNADNR (TheMotorways and National Roads Company in Romania) for buildingCorridor IV."
The most plausible option for the construction of theSibiu-Piteşti section remains the public-private partnership, butso far no-one has announced their intention to get involved in aPPP, although, in theory, the law has been recently changed.
"Sustained efforts will be made until 2015 to finalise corridorIV. But, looking at Romanian reality, without promotingpublic-private partnerships on this corridor, our chances totravelling from Bucharest to Nădlac along the Olt Valley areminimal before 2020," believes Ionel Giuglea, general manager ofAlpine Romania, the local subsidiary of Austrian construction groupAlpine.
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