Motorways in Romania

Highways in Romania are dual carriageways, grade separated with controlled-access, designed for high speeds. In 2012, legislation amendments defined two types of highways: motorways (Romanian: Autostrazi) and expressways (Romanian: Drumuri expres).

The main differences are that motorways have emergency lanes and the maximum allowed speed limit is 130 km/h (81 mph), while expressways do not and the speed limit is 120 km/h (75 mph).

The EU accession of the country in 2007 and the improved utilization of the allocated EU funds in recent years, enabled Romania to speed up the expansion of its highway network.

There are no toll roads in Romania, but a vignette is required, except for municipal roads.

The Government of Romania plans to spend 4 billion euro in the next years on 289 km of new motorways; another 5 billion euro for highway construction will come from the EU’s transport operational programme, according to official data. There is a plan for roughly 2,000 km of highways that would connect all major cities in Romania to highways in Western and Central Europe.

Motorways are identified by A followed by a number. There are few tolls for using roads in Romania. There is one at the Giurgeni – Vadu Oii Bridge over the river Danube on highway DN2A at Vadu Oii and one at the Cernavodă Bridge, on the A2 motorway, a 17 km long section between Feteşti and Cernavodă which consists of two road/railway bridges. Nevertheless, every owner of a car that uses a motorway (A) or a national road (DN) in Romania must purchase a vignette (rovinietă) from any of the main petrol stations or at any post office throughout the country.

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