Section 5 of the Sibiu-Pitesti Motorway (Curtea de Arges-Pitesti section) will be completed on Wednesday, several months ahead of schedule, announced Transport Minister Sorin Grindeanu during a working visit to the motorway construction site.

According to the minister, with the opening of the final 14.57 km segment of this section, it will be possible to travel by motorway from Curtea de Arges to Bucharest, a total distance of approximately 140 kilometers.

‘In fact, this afternoon at 3:00 PM, Section 5 will be completed. A lot that, along with Section 1, finished two years ago, brings us closer to what we’ve all been hoping for over the past 30 years: a completed motorway between Sibiu and Pitesti. I want to congratulate the builders – they finished it 2.5 to 3 months ahead of the contractual deadline. That’s a good thing. It gives them motivation to push forward on Section 3, since they are the same builders there too,’ said Grindeanu.

He also addressed the progress on the other sections of the motorway.

The Transport minister added that, if the current pace of work continues as it has in the past three years, he is hopeful that ‘within a four-year timeframe, we will reach a decent network of highways and express roads in Romania.’

The Sibiu-Pitesti Motorway (122.11 km) is part of the Pan-European Corridor IV (Rhine-Danube) and is currently one of the most important road infrastructure investments in Romania. This motorway, a segment of the A1 Motorway, is being built with European Union funding and will be the first to cross the Carpathian Mountains, providing a critical East-West connection within Romania (from Constanta to Nadlac).

Currently, three more sections of the motorway are under construction between Curtea de Arges and Boita, with a combined length of 78.8 kilometres.

AGERPRES