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09. 03. 10. - 16:00

Another 20 km of motorway to be built this year

Romanian Times

Another 20 kilometres of the Transylvania Motorway would be built in 2010, Prime Minister Emil Boc said yesterday (Mon).

Romania’s government and US construction firm Bechtel will sign an agreement in April providing for continuation of work on the motorway after the government has paid Bechtel for work already done.

Boc said: "The government will find money from budget revision to save jobs and continue construction."

Bechtel said last month that 1,933 employees working on the Transylvania Motorway would be laid off since highway administrator CNADNR had failed to pay it 214 million Euros for its work.

Bechtel finished the first 42 kilometres of the motorway, the Turda-Gilau sector, on 1 December, 2009. When the motorway is finished, it will link Brasov in central Romania and Bors on the border with Hungary.

Boc said recently that the government would propose to Bechtel that certain sectors of the motorway be completed based on a public-private partnership, a system the government plans to use for all major infrastructure projects.

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