{"id":3169,"date":"2024-12-24T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2024-12-24T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:02:39","slug":"romania-opens-new-segment-of-much-awaited-moldova-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"Romania opens new segment of much-awaited Moldova highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic on Lot 1 of the A7 Ploie\u0219ti-Buz\u0103u highway, stretching 21 kilometers in southern Romania, was officially opened on Monday, December 23. With this opening, 102 kilometers of the total 320 kilometers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/grindeanusorin\/videos\/1618480698746222?locale=ro_RO\">the highway<\/a> are now usable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Moldova Highway, as it has been called, is meant to connect Romania&#8217;s economically underdeveloped eastern regions\u00a0to the rest of the country. The newly-opened section runs from the 0-kilometer marker at the junction with the A3 Bucharest-Ploie\u0219ti Highway near Dumbrava to the 21-kilometer marker at the junction with County Road DJ 100C.<\/p>\n<p>Cristian Pistol, the head of the National Company for Road Infrastructure Administration (CNAIR), stated that this milestone means 102 kilometers of the A7 are now in use, out of the 320 kilometers planned to be built under Romania&#8217;s Recovery and Resilience Plan, or PNRR.<\/p>\n<p>Ionel Scrio\u0219teanu, secretary of state in the Ministry of Transport, remarked that this is the fifth lot of the A7 highway opened to traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe A7 Moldova Highway is Romania\u2019s first highway fully under construction (13 lots, 320 km). Once completed, it will connect Moldova and Muntenia (southern Romania) through modern road infrastructure. It was included in the 2021-2030 Investment Program for the development of Romania\u2019s transport infrastructure, drafted and approved between 2020 and 2021, and represents the largest road infrastructure project funded by the PNRR,\u201d Scrio\u0219teanu added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe conclude the year with approximately 197 km opened. Currently, in Romania, there are approximately 1,280 km of high-speed roads in use,\u201d Transport minister Sorin Grindeanu said on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The minister boasted 286 km of high-speed roads opened in 2023 and 2024 and promised another 250 km in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the year, Grindeanu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/romania-250-km-new-highways-end-2024\">promised<\/a> to have at least 250 km of highways completed by the end of the year, a goal he nearly met.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:radu@romania-insider.com\">radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Sorin Grindeanu video capture on Facebook)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic on Lot 1 of the A7 Ploie\u0219ti-Buz\u0103u highway, stretching 21 kilometers in southern Romania, was officially opened on Monday, December 23. With this opening, 102 kilometers of the total 320 kilometers of the highway are now usable.\u00a0 The Moldova Highway, as it has been called, is meant to connect Romania&#8217;s economically underdeveloped eastern regions\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}