You can see here the timetable for a project that started exactly 14 years ago - a good transportation infrastructure between the capital and a key industrial node accounting for some 200 km. Parts of the highway will be ready this year and 2006 is when it is claimed to be fully operational. Take it with a grain of salt though, it's an elections year.
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Fully operational in 2006? You may be reffering to Bucuresti - Lehliu or Bucuresti - Fetesti. In Dobrogea they haven't even started and I doubt they'll be this quick. It took them 1 1/2 decade to do not even half of it.
If they will finish something in 2006 that will be all the money and nothing more... call me a pesimist.
Yep. And what about the quality? 15 years of work. I live in Constanta and I'd love to see a "fit" highway, but it smells like Bucuresti - Pitesti Reloaded. ;)
In 18 months? I drove along most of that route in January, then again in April. Nothing had happened. Color me skeptical. Doug M.
I live in Bucuresti and what is happening here for almost 2-3 years can be named Bucuresti Revolutions :)
It is very hard to picture this until you see it for yourself...
Well, you could say the same about Constanta, although both were bad movies. ;) I was reffering strictly to the highway though. Maybe they're planning to finish it just in time for Euro 2012. :D
Well, the article is mentioning that the entire thing will be done by 2006, with intermediary parts being in function until that date. And so I faithfully reported it. Of course that given the story background combined with the Romanian flavor 2006 sounds bad, but let's not forget that there's a lot of pressure on the official level for completing the project. And this may add a realistic level to 2006 deadline.
Doug, most of the highway parts are made somewhere in parallel with the actual route to Constanta. Also, I certainly see the points of Dragos and David and agree with them, but isn't this an example of the national pessimism you mentioned a while ago?
"most of the highway parts are made somewhere in parallel with the actual route to Constanta." Well, what I saw were isolated pieces of highway -- none longer than a few hundred meters -- with nobody working on them. April same as January. There may have been intense activity just a couple of kilometers away, sure. Has anyone else driven that route lately? "Also, I certainly see the points of Dragos and David and agree with them, but isn't this an example of the national pessimism...?" Hrm. The flip side of the national pessimism, I think, is a tendency for absurdly optimistic statements from those in official positions. The two seem to go hand in hand somehow. Building that road in 18 months is certainly possible. But it would be a real challenge. That would be quick-ish by American standards. For Western Europe, it would be blazing speed -- the new German autobahn that runs east from Wurzburg has been under construction since 2001, and won't be finished until 2006. Anyhow, I said skeptical, not cynical. If they do it, I'll be surprised, but not shocked. ...okay, if they do it in 18 months *and* it doesn't start disintegrating after the first frost-heat cycle, then I'll be shocked. So maybe I'm becoming a cynical pessimist after all. Doug M.