Important road knot built between Cluj-Napoca and Turda. How to work on the new express road of Cluj
In the middle of this year, the first kilometers from the express road DEX4 Turda -Dej could be opened to the road traffic, a five -kilometer section that will connect the Transylvania Highway to Cluj Napoca – Turda, in the Tureni Road Node.
The road node from Tureni. Photo: Daniel Guță. TRUTH
From the autumn of 2023, in the vicinity of Turda municipality there is a five -kilometer section of DEX4, which will work as a connection between the Transilvania A3 and DN1 highway, in the area of Tureni.
Seven bridges and viaducts are built on this sector. The rest of the route between Turda and Dej, with an estimated length of about 70 kilometers, is currently in the planning phase.
The works at the five kilometers of the high -speed road, which will remove part of the heavy traffic in Turda, respectively the trucks that transit the municipality from Alba to Cluj – Napoca, to the belt in the airport area are approaching.
The builders mobilized the machines to complete the new road knot, built in Tureni, to connect the first part of DEX4 to DN1 Turda – Cluj -Napoca.
“Significant advance on the express road site that will ensure the connection between DN1 and A3 (DEX4). The works have reached a physical stage of 85 percent. 380 workers work on the site and 170 machines are used. In particular, works on terraces, consolidations, the arrangement of drains, streams and ditches. June of this year (2025) ”, Recently informs Cristian Pistol, the general manager of the National Road Infrastructure Management Company (CNAIR), on his Facebook page.
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The contract awarded by the Romanian state in 2023 to the DIMEX2000 – OS – OPR – Autotehnorom is funded by the transport program 2021–2027 and has a value of 562.61 million lei (excluding VAT). After opening the traffic, DEX4 will connect Tureni from Cluj-Napoca (through DN1 and A3), complete the CNAIR representative.
About 30 kilometers of express roads, completed in 2025
In 2025, the completion of two other express road sections is estimated. In the final phase of the construction is the DEX6 road Braila-Galați, with a length of 10.76 kilometers. On this sector is built a hobanat bridge (no suspended on cables) over the Siret river, with a length of 307 meters.
The works on the last 13 kilometers of section 4 of the express road Craiova-Pitesti (DEX12) are also being completed, which the authorities have also called “Oltenia Expres” or “Ford Highway”, with a total length of 121 kilometers.
The triangle of highways of the Turzi
Turda municipality (Cluj County), established on the ruins of the ancient city of Potaissa, has just over 43,000 inhabitants and is known to tourists especially for Turzii and Salina Turda. It was, for a long time, a busy transit knot for those traveling to Cluj-Napoca, about 30 kilometers away.
From 2021, with the completion of the A10 Sebeș -Turda highway, the municipality has become one of the most important road infrastructure nodes.
The so-called “highways triangle” of Turzii, at the entrance to the municipality from Alba Iulia and Târgu Mureș, connects A10 (Sebeș-Turda), A3 (Târgu Mureș-Cluj-Napoca) and the national road 1. It was built about five kilometers from the city center, in the vicinity of Mihai Viteă.
The first highway to cross Turda – a sector of the Transilvania highway, between Turda and Gilău – was completed in 2010. The road node was completed in 2018, with the inauguration of sectors in A10. The Node from Tureni, whose completion is scheduled in 2025, is at the exit from Turda to Cluj-Napoca, near the Tureni Gorge.
