Motorists coming from somewhere west of Romania will be able to travel 93 kilometers on a continuous highway between Nadlac and Remetea Mare, near Timisoara. They will also be able to travel the almost 290 kilometers from Timisoara to Budapest in 2 to 2.5 hours.
The Mako-Nagylak (the Hungarian side of Nadlac i.e.) highway will be completed at the end of the year, Daniel Loppert, PR manager of Nemzeti Infrastruktura Fejleszto, the company in charge of Hungary’s roads and highways, told ZF, adding December was the estimated time of completion.
Romania and Hungary agreed that the former would build the highway segment in the border area and that the two sections of the highway, the Mako-Nadlac and Nadlac-Arad would open at the same time, Loppert said.
The information about the potential opening of the Nadlac-Arad highway comes from the company in charge of Hungary’s roads.
Despite ZF’s repeated calls for comment about the Nadlac-Arad highway from Romania’s national company in charge of highways and national roads, CNADNR, the company did not provide any answer. ZF’s request for verification of the information provided by the Nemzeti Infrastruktura Fejleszto on Thursday went unanswered again.
The last time Romanian authorities provided an estimated deadline for the completion of Nadlac-Arad highway was at the end of last year, when the Minister of Major Infrastructure Projects Dan Sova said it would be done by the end of 2014, without saying what month.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)