A1 motorway (Romania)
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| A1 | |
| Maintained by Compania Naţională de Autostrăzi şi Drumuri Naţionale din România | |
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| Length: | built: 127 km planned: 620 km |
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| From: | Bucharest |
| To: | Nădlac |
| Rural municipalities: | Nădlac |
| Major cities: | Bucharest, Piteşti, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Sibiu, Deva, Timişoara, Arad |
Currently, the A1 (Autostrada A1 in Romanian) is a 127-kilometer motorway linking Bucharest, the capital of Romania, with Piteşti, a city in Argeş County. The A1 was the first freeway to be built in Romania, constructed in the 1960s during the Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej's communist regime and upgraded in 2000. The motorway is to be expanded to 620 km by 2014, connecting the capital city of Bucharest to the Banat region in western Romania and furthermore to the Central European motorway system.
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[edit] Extensions in progress
[edit] Motorway sections under construction (July 2007)
[edit] Piteşti East bypass
A 15-km long segment of highway, known as the Piteşti East bypass. It was opened in November 2007 and diverts the traffic from the city center of Piteşti. A passageway in Bascov area (north of Piteşti) was built to connect the A1 motorway to DN7. The project is not fully completed, as an upgrade of DN7 to a two lane-road for 1 km has yet to be done. These works were supposed to be completed by September 2008.
[edit] Sibiu bypass
The 23 km of motorway forming a ring around Sibiu are to be completed in 2009.
[edit] Arad - Timişoara section
For the 44 km long segment the deadline is November 2010.
[edit] Extension Piteşti-Arad-Budapest and Timişoara-Belgrade
There are plans to extend the freeway from Piteşti to the border with Hungary, via Râmnicu Vâlcea , Sibiu, Deva, Timişoara, Arad and Nădlac (at the Romanian/Hungarian border), along the 4th European corridor. It is planned that A1 will be connected with the Hungarian M43 motorway, which will constitute a branch of the M5 motorway in Hungary.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- A1 drive near Pitesti City (youtube video)
- A1 on Google maps
- Motorways in Romania 2007-2013 (pdf file)
- Romanian Motorway Projects
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