A segment of the Sibiu-Pitesti highway may open this year. Head of CNAIR: “At the current rate, we finish earlier”

The physical stage of the works on the construction site of the Tigveni – Curtea de Argeș section has reached almost 85%, and if the current pace is maintained, traffic on this section of the Sibiu – Pitesti highway (A1) will be open as early as this year, announced on Monday, the general director of the National Road Infrastructure Administration Company (CNAIR), Cristian Pistol.

“The specialized systems are being installed in the Momaia tunnel (Section 4 of the Sibiu-Pitesti highway). The Austrian constructor (PORR) is now working on the installation of: fire-fighting systems, smoke evacuation systems, but also smoke (in case of fire), lighting systems. Next: the installation of fire doors at the crossings between the tunnel's two road galleries (two pedestrian crossings and a car crossing), the application of paint anticorrosives on the walls of the carriageways, the physical stage of the works on the Tigveni – Curtea de Argeș section has reached almost 85%. At the current rate, traffic on the Sibiu-Pitesti highway (A1) will be opened already this year, earlier than the contractual deadline (February 2027)”, noted Pistol in a post on his Facebook page.

The project, worth 1.67 billion lei (without VAT), is financed by the Transport Program (PT) 2021-2027.

Section 4 Tigveni – Curtea de Argeș (about 9.8 km long) is the first lot in the “mountainous”, tougher area of ​​the A1 Sibiu – Pitesti highway.

Although it does not actually pass through the mountains, but through an area of ​​hills, the works on the highway are complex and specific to a mountainous area: numerous viaducts and bridges, slope reinforcements, but also a tunnel drilled with a double gallery, almost 1.35 km long – the only tunnel drilled on a highway in Romania that is currently under construction.

The Austrians from Porr have been working on section 4 Tigveni – Curtea de Argeș since autumn 2023.