“Are we starting with the hoe as well or are we just staying on the Map? Section 2 of the A1 Sibiu-Pitesti motorway, which the whole country is waiting with bated breath, should start this year, but it is never easy for us,” writes the Pro Infrastructure Association about the most difficult of the mountain sections of the road. A1 Sibiu – Pitesti.

The contract for the 2nd section of the A1 Sibiu – Pitesti was signed with the Turkish association Mapa-Cengiz for the amount of about 4.25 billion lei (excluding VAT).

The section is 31.33 kilometers long and is very difficult, probably the most difficult section of the motorway to date: 7 tunnels, about 50 viaducts, bridges and crossings, “whole forests to be cut and moved, terribly difficult access through the brains of mountains that knit past Alt.” , railway and DN7″.

“It would be a MIRACLE if the 50-month deadline was met”

The contract “has an initial order issued on 07/01/2022 and states in black and white that the submission of the PAC, Project for Construction Authorization (CA), must be made in 15 months so that at the end of the 18-month period “all design work is complete” and “so that work could be started.”

But as of 12/31/2023, we have no trace of AS, so we cannot start the excavators. Where is the lock? Bureaucratic problems of all kinds, such as access to forests for geotechnical drilling,” notes Pro Infrastructura.

• “In a country where the forest is stolen… like a forest, it is terribly difficult to legally cut it down. Wherever there were no trees, geotechnical drilling was carried out. Access to the woodlands, which is about a third of the motorway’s route, has not been resolved 18 months after the commencement order.
• But let’s not look for an excuse, but a solution. There are at least two or three portals out of 14 and of course about 2-3-10 bridges out of 50 in the area where we don’t have trees and/or other big red tape.
• As in many other cases, the contractor can come to CNAIR with the documentation (PAC) required for a partial construction permit to start… something. And at the same time solve more complicated administrative steps. Otherwise, more and more time is lost.
• It would be a MIRACLE if the 50 month deadline was met. In fact, given the slowness of the Turks at Mapa-Cengiz and the usual shirking of responsibility by CNAIR and MT, it’s a wonder the line will be ready by 2030, which is less than 7 years, let alone the 4 or so required by the contract! “, the Association “About Infrastructure” notes.

“We ask the Mapa-Cengiz association and CNAIR and MT officials, led by Pistol and Grindeanu, to urgently identify the sectors where the project can be delivered and approved in order to partially allow and start work on site in 2024,” the NGO also relays.

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Photo: sections of the A1 Sibiu – Pitesti highway

A1 Sibiu – Pitesti, section 2 (Boita – Cornetu)

Length: 31.33 km

PRODUCER: Association Mapa – Cengiz (Turkey)

Value: 4.25 billion lei (without VAT):

Signed contract: February 2022

term (from initial order – July 2022): 18 months of technical design + 50 months of execution

stage: in design

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