In Romania, the highways starting from the capital will be expanded to three lanes

According to the official, the capacity expansion will be carried out on the entire 110-kilometer section of the A1 highway, which starts from the Romanian capital and is also the busiest, until Pitesti. For the time being, the first 25 kilometers of the A2 road leading to the Black Sea will be widened. Another 30-kilometer section of the A3 highway built to Ploiesti - in the southern part of the country - will be expanded to three lanes, up to the point where the A7 highway, which is currently under construction and connects the Moldavian part of the country with the capital, will branch off from it.

According to the state secretary, only one approval is needed to call the public procurement for the preparation of the feasibility study of the three capacity expansions, for which - including the necessary measurements - 18 months are allocated.

For the first time in Romania, a decision was made to expand a highway. In the country of 19 million inhabitants, the length of the expressway network has not yet reached a thousand kilometers. The southern Transylvanian section of the A1 highway (between Great Szeged and the Hungarian border) is almost completely completed, and on the A3 highway - which continues in Northern Transylvania after a break of about 300 kilometers - some shorter sections in the vicinity of Marosváráshely, Cluj-Napoca and Nagyvárad you can drive.

Motorists can drive on three lanes only on the first 25 kilometers of the section of the A3 road leading out of Bucharest, which is not the result of an expansion, but was originally designed that way. This is currently the least busy of the highways starting from Bucharest. In principle, the three-lane section would have served to make the international airport of Otopeni easier to reach, but the road between the airport and the A3 track was not built.

(Source: autokalauz.co.hu; MTI | Image: pixabay.com)