The construction of the Azuga -Bușteni belt began. Spectacular alternative to the crowds of the Prahova Valley
The builders started the works at the Azuga -Bușteni bypass belt. The new road will have a length of over nine kilometers and is planned as an alternative to the crowds on the Prahova Valley.
Azuga. Photo wikipedia
The first works on the Azuga -Bușteni Belt road started, after recently the Prahova County Council issued the first construction authorization for the section of over nine kilometers.
“This investment is an essential one for the Prahova Valley: it will fluidize traffic, support tourism and bring more comfort to the inhabitants.” the Prahova County Council sent.
The new road will connect the Doftana Valley in Prahova to the town of Săcele in Brașov county and will represent a traffic alternative on national roads DN1 and DN1A, said Virgiliu Daniel Nanu, president of CJ Prahova (Video: Virgiliu Daniel Nanu, Facebook).
The future Bușteni -Azuga belt, with a total length of 9.4 kilometers, was divided into four sections. The first, with a length of 1.6 kilometers, will intersect with DN1 between Sinaia and Poiana Ţapului and with the future download of the A3 motorway. The second section, 5.13 kilometers, will cross the city of Busteni. The third section of 500 meters will be connected to the intersection with the future Download of the A3 highway between logs and Azuga – DN1, and the last segment, about two kilometers, will leave DN1 in Azuga.
The belt road will include 11 bridges, a tunnel with a length of 90 meters that will subtract DN1 and the Bucharest -Brașov railway, but also a semi -long of about 150 meters, at the entrance to Azuga. The works, estimated at 600 million lei, will be made by the builders from Coni, the investment being financed from European funds and from the state budget, through the Ministry of Transport.
Alternative to the crowds of the Prahova Valley
The Romanians will also have to wait for the A3 motorway between Brașov and Ploiești, largely in the planning stage, but the future belt will contribute to the release of traffic from the segments of the national road 1 Bucharest -Brașov.
The old road from the Prahova Valley is transit annually by hundreds of thousands of tourists and represents one of the most popular routes in Romania. The construction of the mountain road began in the seventeenth century, with the erection of the monastery in Sinaia.
In the middle of the eighteenth century, the Habsburgs decided to arrange the road on the Prahova Valley for strategic reasons, being considered the fastest route in Transylvania to Bucharest. The road between Campina and Predeal became more and more circulated in the 19th century, and on its edges there have been numerous barges and inns.
The road on the Prahova Valley was modernized around 1865, being considered one of the most modern roads in Romania at the end of the 19th century. The popularity of the route increased with the realization of the Ploiești-Brașov railway, in 1879, which connected the capital of Romania to Transylvania and cross the current cities of the Prahova Valley.
Since then, Sinaia and the former villages around her – Predeal, Azuga, Bușteni and Poiana Tapului – have become more and more attractive for tourists, being holiday destinations since the beginning of the 20th century.
