Autostrada A3 (Romania)

Autostrada A3 in Romania
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Basic data
Operator:	CNADNR
Overall length:	588 km
of which in operation:	110 km
of which under construction:	98 km
of which in planning:	438 km
Jewțe ( circles ):	Bihor Sălaj Cluj Mureș Sibiu Brașov Prahova Ilfov Municipiul Bucureşti
Requirement for use:	Rovignette
The A3 near Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg)
Course of the road (1)  Bucureşti -Strada Gherghitei (3)  Bucureşti Street Popasului (5)  Bucureşti Strada Iancu Nicolae (14)  Centura Bucureşti -North Parcare (19)  Autostrada Centura Bucureşti (26)  Baloteşti, Moara Vlăsiei (30)  Snagov Parcare Rest stop (43)  Gherghița (52)  Buzău (Busäu) (07/2012) Parcare (67)  Ploieşti Sud (69)  Ploieşti -Sudvest Parcare (71)  Ploieşti -Vest Parcare (92)  Câmpina (112)  Comarnic (124)  Sinaia (132)  Buşteni (147)  Predeal (162)  Piteşti , Câmpulung   (168)  Brașov -Vest ( Kronstadt ) (174)  Brașov ( Kronstadt ) (219)  Făgăraș ( Fogarasch )  (254)  Agnita ( Agnetheln ) (275)  Sighișoara ( Schäßburg ) (283)  Dumbrăveni ( Elizabeth City ) (313)  Gheorghe Doja (317)  Târgu Mureș ( Neumarkt am Mieresch ) (320)  Aeroport- Târgu Mureș (Airport) (339)  Târnăveni ( Saint Martin ) (356)  Luduș ( Ludasch ) (369)  Câmpia Turzii ( Jerischmarkt ) (380)  Turda ( Thorenburg )  (422)  Cluj-Napoca ( Klausenburg ), Huedin (431)  Cluj-Napoca- Nordvest  (460)  Zimbor Rest stop (488)  Zalau ( Zillenmarkt ) (515)  Simleu Silvaniei ( Schomlenmarkt ) Parcare (548)  Marghita ( Margarethen ) Parcare (572)  Sălard Rest stop (582)  Oradea ( Greater Oradea ) (585)  Border crossing Borș ( RO ) - Nagykereki ( HU ) Continue on  → Budapest Under construction In planning

The Autostrada A3 ( Romanian for 'A3 Motorway'), also known as Autostrada Transilvania (Romanian for 'Transylvania Motorway '), is a future 588-kilometer motorway on the route Bucharest - Ploieşti - Braşov (Kronstadt) - Făgăraş (Fogarasch) - Sighișoara (Schäßburg) - Târgu Mureș (Neumarkt am Mieresch) - Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) - Zalău (Zillenmarkt) - Oradea (Großwardein) - Borș leads through Transylvania to the Hungarian border and is supposed to connect to the Hungarian M4 motorway . It will also be connected to the future Terminal 2 of Bucharest-Otopeni Airport .

A vignette ( rovignetă ) must generally be purchased for the use of motorways and national roads .

Construction progress

The complete completion should originally take place in 2014.

Sections in Transylvania

For the 415 km long motorway section Brașov - Oradea (Borș), the construction contract was awarded directly by the Romanian government to the American company Bechtel in 2004 without having previously issued a tender. The construction costs were set at 2.2 billion euros and completion at the end of 2012. The first 42 km long section from Cluj-Napoca ( Gilău ) to Turda (Thorenburg) was opened on December 1, 2009. On November 13, 2010, the ten-kilometer extension from Turda to Câmpia Turzii was opened to traffic. Section 2B of the motorway is now complete. At the beginning of 2010 the work was almost completely stopped; According to the construction company, more than 200 million euros were not paid by the Romanian state. In addition, the focus of the investments was placed on the construction of Autobahn 1 between the Hungarian border and Sibiu, as EU funding is available for this.

After the price per kilometer continued to rise and the estimated total costs amounted to 9.9 billion euros and only 52 km of motorway for 1.4 billion euros had been completed in seven years , the Romanian state renegotiated the contract with Bechtel in 2011. As a result, Bechtel should only execute the sections between Nădășelu and Suplacu de Barcău and Suplacu de Barcău and the border with Hungary. Thus the project was reduced to 112 kilometers. The remaining piece between Cluj and Nădăşelu was re-tendered. It represents an important gap in traffic to the north-west. Construction should also start soon on the route from Turda to Târgu Mureș. Renewed contract negotiations between the state and Bechtel began in February 2013. On May 30, 2013, the Romanian government completely terminated the construction contract with Bechtel. For this she had to pay the US company compensation of around 37 million euros and settle her debts worth 50 million euros. According to the then Prime Minister Victor Ponta , there would no longer be any obligations and further plans for the completion of the sections could be undertaken. It is planned to implement the sections by awarding concessions or public-private partnerships to various construction companies.

Between Gilău and Nădășelu (Rohrfeld) an 8.7 kilometer long section of motorway was opened on September 28, 2018, so that the 'Cluj Belt' has now been completed with a delay of more than ten months due to a bridge over the Someșul Mic (Kleiner Somesch) and around 360 kilometers of the motorway still need to be completed.

On December 12, 2018, another 14-kilometer section of motorway between Târgu Mureș Airport and Iernut (Radnuten) was inaugurated. It was built by Strabag . This section should be connected to the A3 at Câmpia Turzii (Jerischmarkt) by three further sections , with completion expected in 2020. Another 5 kilometer long section of the A3 between Oradea (Greater Oradea ) and the Hungarian / Romanian border should also be opened to traffic in 2020. After the opening, this piece will represent the connection to the Hungarian M4 motorway .

section	Length (km)	Subsections	course	(presumably) start of construction work	expected completion	planned costs	estimated costs
1	161	1A	Brașov ( Codlea ) - Făgăraș	unknown	unknown
		1B	Făgăraș - Sighișoara	unknown	unknown
		1C	Sighișoara - Târgu Mureș ( Ogra )	unknown	unknown
2	90	2A	Târgu Mureș (Ogra) - Câmpia Turzii	2016	2021	€ 143 million
		2 B	Câmpia Turzii - Cluj-Napoca ( Gilău )	2004	12/2010	€ 371 million	> € 520 million
3	164	3A	Cluj-Napoca (Gilău) - Nădășelu	2013	2018	258 million Romanian lei
			Nădăşelu - Mihăieşti	2020	2023
		3B	Mihăieşti - Suplacu de Barcău	2023	unknown	€ 489 million	€ 1 billion
		3C	Suplacu de Barcau - Borş	2011	unknown	€ 245 million

Section Bucharest - Brașov

section	course	Length (km)	(presumably) start of construction work	(planned) completion	(planned) costs
1	Bucharest - Ploieşti	62	2007	December 14, 2018	450 million euros
2	Ploieşti - Comarnic	49	unknown	unknown
3.1	Comarnic - Predeal	36.2	2020	unknown	1.2-1.3 billion euros
3.2	Predeal - Brașov	21.8

Bucharest - Ploieşti

The planned completion of the Bucharest - Ploieşti section was expected for December 2011. According to the then Prime Minister Emil Boc at the beginning of November 2011, this section should be put into operation in spring 2012 at the latest. However, after a long delay, this section was not opened until July 19, 2012, with the inner-city section up to Centura București not yet completed.

Comarnic - Brașov

The route from Comarnic to Brașov will run along the localities of Sinaia, Bușteni, Predeal and Râșnov.

The tender should be prepared in 2012. Another call for tenders was launched in February 2013. The section is now being built under a concession . The contract should be signed before October 2013 so that construction work could start a month later. However, the deadline for submitting bids has been extended to December 9th. The award was made on December 19th. The consortium consisting of the construction companies Vinci , Strabag and Aktor was awarded the contract . The concession will run for 30 years. Construction should start in April 2014 and completion between 2016/2017. However, the concession contract has not yet been signed (as of January 2015) and construction is now to begin in October 2016. Not too much has changed since then. Only in mid-2020 proclaimed the Romanian Transport Minister Lucian Bode that he hopes that by the end of the year and the tender of the leg out that the EBRD is a guarantee for the construction of this highway.

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  A3 at Cheile Turzii

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  A3 at Cheile Turzii

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  A3 at Cheile Turului

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  A3 at Cheile Turului

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  A3 between Gilău and Turda

See also

• List of highways in Romania

Web links

Commons : Autostrada A3  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the National Society for Motorways and National Roads in Romania
• Web presentation of the Romanian A3; Autostrada Transilvania (Romanian / English)
• Overview of motorway construction in Romania 2007-2013 (Romanian; PDF; 2.3 MB)
• Reports on motorway construction (Romanian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bechtel: Contractul pentru Autostrada Transilvania a încetat de comun acord. Cât sunt despăgubirile. "Proiectul a fost sabotat" (Romanian)
2. ^ Titus Craciun: Autostrada Transilvania are, de sâmbătă, 52 de kilometers . In: Ziua de Cluj (online) November 12, 2010. Accessed November 13, 2010.
3. ↑ Motorway builders put pressure on zoro.ro from March 10, 2010 , accessed on March 11, 2010
4. ↑ Ciprian Mailat: Șova a anunțat rezilierea contractului cu Bechtel at autostrada-transilvania.ro on May 30, 2013 accessed on January 18, 2016 (Romanian)
5. ↑ Boc: Săptămâna viitoare va fi scos la licitaţie tronsonul Gilău-Nădășel al Autostrăzii Transilvania November 18, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
6. ^ Motorway contract with construction company Bechtel dissolved at adz.ro on May 31, 2013
7. ↑ The nightmare of the Transylvania motorway continues at euronews.com on May 30, 2013
8. ↑ Tronsonul de autostradă Gilău-Nădășelu, deschis circulației. ziarulfaclia.ro, September 29, 2019, accessed September 30, 2018 (Romanian). 
9. ↑ Átadták az észak-erdélyi autópálya Radnót és Nyárádtő közötti szakaszát. kronikaonline.ro, December 12, 2018, accessed May 3, 2020 (Hungarian). 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Rácz Gergő: Alig épülhetnek autópályák. napi.hu, January 3, 2020, accessed May 3, 2020 (Hungarian). 
11. ↑ Representation of the route section "3C". (PDF; 151 MB) Retrieved August 13, 2020 (Romanian). 
12. ↑ Alecsandru Ion: Se face o nouă autostradă! CNAIR a primit deja ofertele de execuție. capital.ro, July 10, 2020, accessed on August 13, 2020 (Romanian). 
13. ↑ Autostrada Bucuresti - Ploiesti, inaugurata partial in decembrie 2011 at hotnews.ro on June 28, 2011. Accessed July 3, 2011.
14. ↑ Andra Dumitru: Boc: The Autostrada Bucharest – Ploieşti will go into operation by April 2012 at the latest , on romanialibera.ro, on November 5, 2011. ( Memento of December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on June 24, 2012 (Romanian ).
15. ↑ Romania's 60 km Bucharest - Ploiesti highway opened after five years and multiple delays at romania-insider.com on July 19, 2012 (English)
16. ^ Dieter Drotleff: According to the Prime Minister, the Comarnic-Kronstadt motorway will be ready by 2016 , on March 16, 2013 in the ADZ .
17. ↑ Pictorial representation of the section
18. ↑ Heinz Thenmeyer: Comarnic-Brasov motorway is still to be advertised in 2012 , at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce on March 13, 2012. ( Memento of November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved on June 24, 2012.
19. ↑ Regii Romani ai se asfaltului asked cu italienii de la Astaldi şi austriecii de la Strabag pentru concesionarea autostrăzii de sud a Capitalei. Retrieved May 31, 2013 (Romanian). 
20. ↑ Construcţia Autostrăzii Brasov-Comarnic va începe în octombrie. Retrieved May 31, 2013 (Romanian). 
21. ↑ Asocierea Vinci-Strabag-Aktor va realiza in concesiune autostrada Comarnic - Brasov. Retrieved December 22, 2013 (Romanian). 
22. ↑ BEI, BERD şi BM, interesate să finanţeze Comarnic-Braşov. Constructorul va fi desemnat în decembrie. Retrieved December 9, 2013 (Romanian). 
23. ↑ Expressways planned instead of motorways
24. ↑ Transport Minister: Work on the Bucharest - Comarnic motorway will start in October 2016 from economica.net accessed on December 14, 2015 (Romanian)
25. ^ Monica Bonea: Ministrul Transporturilor anunță încă un pas pentru Comarnic-Brașov. “BERD este o guaranteeie că această autostradă se va realiza”. July 28, 2020, accessed August 13, 2020 (Romanian).