Only one section of the highway has a certain chance of opening to traffic this year. The roughly 13km from Sibiu to Boita will effectively be the only kilometers of highway open this year, after 40km of high-speed road was opened in the summer, but as an expressway rather than a highway.

• With this opening, Romania will symbolically approach the symbolic milestone of 1,000 km of expressways: about 955 km of highways and 40 km of expressways (the first such road was inaugurated in the summer, the segment of Bals-Slatina Express Road DEx12 Craiova – Pitesti)

Currently, works on the Sibiu-Boita section (13.17 km) of the A1 Sibiu-Pitesti highway are on schedule and on track for a grand opening at the end of the year. Austrian builder Porr is working here under a contract worth around 612 million lei with an official completion date of April 2023.

Work on the A1 Sibiu – Boita (13.17 km) started in April 2020 and has so far reached approximately 90.4%.

In the new images taken from the drone, you can see the progress of the construction and the points where the builder has yet to draw the opening this year: the Telmachel Viaduct, the Telmachu Viaduct or the junctions of the roads from Sibiu and Boit.

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A1 Sibiu – Boita – 13.17 km

Builder: Construction Porr

Value: 613 million lei (approx. 125 million euros)

Signed contract: April 2019 (12 months of design + 36 months of execution)

Getting Started: April 2020 (start ordering March 30, 2020)

Deadline: April 2023

construction: 27 bridges and passageways, 27 pedestrian bridges, a viaduct with a length of 414.7 m, a viaduct with a length of 651.4 m, two service premises, a technical coordination center, two transport junctions.

Stage of work on each section of the A1 Sibiu – Pitesti highway

The Sibiu-Pitesti motorway will be more than 122 km long and divided into 5 sections, and will connect Central and Western Romania with the European road network, being an important part of the Pan-European Corridor 4.

Work is currently underway on the A1 Sibiu – Pitesti highway Section 1 presented above (13.17 km from Sibiu to Boita – builder Porr) et cetera Chapter 5, 30 km from Pitesti to Kurta de Arges (developer Astaldi).

Enabled WITHsection 4 The Curtea de Argeș – Tigveni auction ended with the signing of the contract on November 15, 2021 with the Austrians from PORR. There, the highway is at the design stage.

Enabled WITHsection 3 in May, the winner was determined – an association of builders from Italy and Romania, which won practically the most expensive motorway tender ever held in Romania. On August 1, 2022, CNAIR signed an agreement with the Association WEBUILD SPA (Astaldi) – TRANCRAD SRL.

Enabled WITHsection 2of the most difficult section, which passes through the Olt valley and involves the construction of seven tunnels, CNAIR in February signed a contract for 860 million euros with a company from Turkey.

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Photo: sections on the A1 Sibiu – Pitesti highway

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