Friday, July 31, 2020

we need to plan for more highways. Extend, already !

I was travelling this week, starting from Bucharest to Satu-Mare, then back. As we're in a pandemic and I don't trust border crossing, this year (and most likely the next one, 2021) we'll have loco holidays. Break from work, go visit some of our relatives.

No, we'll not spend money on the seaside, nor at the mountains, and to be honest some of the hosts where we had experiences past many years, I hope they go broke this time, and start fresh to have more consideration for their tourists, and not trying to rip-off at every corner (but that's another topic)

To better understand, past 3 or 4 years, from Bucharest, we mostly escaped to the South during holidays (either Bulgaria, or Greece) ... and so I was rather disconnected from any kind of progress with the highways in my country. I know everyone complains, we also had protests and all that, but myself I was not a driver to the north, to experience the ordeal on myown.

This week, I did. For the most part, it was an OKish experience. Driving through Europe on several occasions, I was rather surprised that I had so many km on the highway in my country. But then, we stopped. Aiud - Sebes, 45 km, a segment that is the current nightmare for anyone that choose this route. Unless you plan to reach there in the middle of the night, or on week-ends, you'll be holding for at minimum 1 hr. Not acceptable.

Which is to say, at the next elections, I will vote with the party that will convince me to these points:

1. when this crappy segment Aiud - Sebes is ready (we're rather delayed, so many wasted resources ...)
2. when the two highways over the mountains are ready: Pitesti - Sibiu, Comarnic - Brasov
3. are plans already being considered to extend these highways, already constructed, or the unfinished ones ?

The last point above is for any long-term planning for any party in this country. I have a clear feeling that what we have now is already not enough, from the infrastructure requirements. And I'm a software engineer, not a transportation one, but I'm pretty sure I'm right. 



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