Highway from Bucharest to Giurgiu: new contract, awarded after the revision of the offers / route variants taken into account

A new highway from Bucharest to Giurgiu will contact the new bridge that will be built over the Danube. The contract for carrying out the feasibility study was awarded again, after the first designation of an auction winner was challenged. The designer will analyze different route variants, including one that could work partially as a second highway ring for Bucharest in the southwest area.

The National Road Investment Company attributed, on Wednesday, to the Active Design Infrastructure SRL (Leader), Emay Uluslararası Mühenddislik Ve Müşavirlik anonymous contract for the realization of the high-speed road Bucharest-Giurgiu.

The association was designated the winner for an offer of 33 million lei (excluding VAT), and the contract can be signed after the legal period in which appeals can be filed, announces CNIR.

The announcement comes after initially the contract had been awarded, in May, to the association of companies in Romania SC Construct Region (leader) -roads Design with an offer of 31.2 million lei. The decision in the spring was challenged, and the National Council for the Settlement of Appeals ordered the re -evaluation of the offers. After reassessment, the Construct project offer was rejected, official sources told HotNews.ro.

“The high speed road Bucharest-Giurgiu is an objective in which we had, from the beginning, the realization of complementary projects such as the arrangement of an Olympic rowing runway, as well as the possibility of implementing through public-private partnership, aspects that are likely to increase the competitiveness of the project to obtain European financing”, said CNIR general manager Gabriel Budescu.

Several variants of route taken into account. A variant turns the road and into a bypass route for Bucharest

A component of the feasibility study that will be done will analyze several route variants.

Of these, a variant that could be analyzed is the one in which the high speed of Bucharest-Giurgiu continues to the southwest of the Capital and reach the A1 Bucharest-Pitesti highway, becoming a part of a future 2way ring for Bucharest, explains last year.

“We want in the multicriterial analyzes of the route to analyze the connection in (no Bucharest-Alexandria Highway), where we have a potential node; from A (Belt) A0; from the radial road from Măgurele. But I want to do an analysis, a connection with A1, to see from the point of view of the traffic that would mean each variant.

I estimate that a lot of traffic that comes from the Giurgiu-Bucharest relationship goes to Pitești, Sibiu and so on, and then it could be more profitable to take this Bucharest-Giurgiu to A1, not to come to (highway) Alexandria, but from Alexandria we go to A0, to see what I want to do. We put them in the national transport model and we simulate each one to see where the most traffic attracts and what the predominant flow would be, ”explains Budescu.

“Basically, on this area between (the highway to) Alexandria and A1 would create the second highway ring. A aspect that I have lifted in various environments since 2021. And here I do a parenthesis-on the current A0 highway, in the traffic study that it was bid in 2017, when I came to CNAIR, he writes that the 3rd A0 is required on 2025, and on the 20th. the director of the new infrastructure company.

It should be noted that the North A0 is not completely ready now, and only two of the three lots were given in traffic.

“To make the third tape, we should use the emergency band, make the bands narrower, reduce the speed to 100km/h, the knots will be crowded anyway. There are quite a lot. And then a solution would be to think as the Americans say. Let's see the second version, if we can do it, where we can do it. Belt, another highway.

Express road or highway? Will have three lanes per direction

The feasibility study will also determine what kind of high -speed road will be – express road or highway. This will result from the traffic study. The still unofficial indicative, if it was a highway, is A5, as it was for a long time in the older transport plans.

“I think the freeway will come out,” Budescu said, mentioning that it will be taken into account to be a high -speed road with three lanes per direction, a rarer element on the highways in Romania.