Bucharest-Ploiesti (62 kilometers), Medgidia-Constanta (31.5 kilometers) highways, Constanta beltway (22.1 kilometers), Arad beltway (12.3 kilometers), Suplacu de Barcau-Bors (64 kilometers), and the first section of the Timisoara-Lugoj highway (9.5 kilometers) are scheduled to open for traffic in 2012, according to a ZF analysis based on the announcements of the Transport Ministry and of the national company in charge of highways and national roads in Romania (CNADNR).
Sections of the Constanta and Arad beltways and of the Medgidia-Constanta highway have already been inaugurated but these roads will be completed in 2012.
The most eagerly awaited inauguration of the year is maybe the Bucharest-Ploiesti highway, which was supposed to be finalized by December 2011. The 62-kilometer highway is extremely important considering it provides an option to the national road 1 (DN1) the road with the highest traffic in Romania.
Romania has 371 kilometers of highways completed now, 58 kilometers of which were opened to traffic this year: the Arad-Timisoara highway (west of the country), 14.5 kilometers of the Medgidia-Cernavoda section and 8.5 kilometers of the highway-grade beltway of the Constanta city (SE Romania). Another 434 kilometers of highways are under construction, most of them part of the Pan-European Corridor IV.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)