Romania had 931 kilometers of motorway at the end of last year, representing 5.3% of the length of national roads, according to a press release sent by the National Institute of Statistics (INS)."Of the length of national roads, 6,197 km (35.4%) were European roads, 931 km (5.3%) were motorways, and from the standpoint of number of lanes, 1,978 km (11.3%) were roads with 4 lanes, 297 km (1.7%) roads with 3 lanes and 36 km (0.2%) roads with 6 lanes. The length of county roads were 47.1% modernized roads and 35.2% were cobbled communal roads," INS specifies.According to the statistics, almost a third of modernized roads in Romania had their service life exceeded by the end of 2021.The length of public roads totaled 86,199 km, of which 17,530 km (20.3%) were national roads, 35.096 km (40.7% on county roads and 33,573 (30.9%) were communal roads.From the stand point of coverage, the public roads network registered: 47.1% (40,571 km) of modernized roads, at a rate of 93.7% modernized roads with medium and heavy asphalt pavement, 24.5% (21,112) km of light road pavement and 28.4% (24,516 km) of cobbled roads and soil.On December 2021, the length of public railway summed up 10,764 km, including 10,626 (98.7%) lines with normal track gauge, 134 km (1.3%) of large track gauge and 4 km of lines with narrow track gauge.The line density at 1000 sq km of territory was 45.2 per thousand, and the length of main railway was 5,991 km, representing 55.7% of the simple length of running railway.
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Radu Miruță, currently Romania’s economy minister, was proposed to lead the Defense Ministry. He will also hold the position of deputy prime minister. In his place, senator Irineu Darău has been proposed to take the helm of the Economy Ministry. The Defense and Economy Ministries are handled by the center-right reformist party Save Romania Union […]
