21 km of tunnels and viaducts to be built in this Szeklerland motorway project

The consortium responsible for designing and constructing the longest section of the A8 motorway crossing Székelyföld has been selected, according to economedia.ro Maszol in a news item published a few days ago. This is a huge investment, not only in terms of the financial value of the project, but also in terms of its parameters.

Most of the route will be 37.9 km long and will run through the Eastern Carpathians. The contractor will have to design and build 19 tunnels and 63 bridges and viaducts. In total, the tunnels and viaducts will cover 21 kilometres, 57% of the total length of the section

- the article reveals.

The road section between Ditro in Harghita County (Ditrău) and Grințieș in Neamț County, across the Eastern Carpathians, will take 14 months to design and 40 months to build for the winning Romanian-Bosnian consortium.

The 6.14 billion lei – or, at today's average exchange rate, nearly 500 billion forints – motorway section will be built by the Romanian consortium SA&PE Construct (lead member) – also Romanian Tehnostrade – Euro Asfalt D.O.O. (the Bosnian-based company in the consortium) – and the largest Romanian road construction company, Spedition UMB – according to plans, as summarised by agerpres.ro .