The National Highway and National Roads Company (CNADNR) has asked the Government for information on the way in which Bechtel company could receive an additional 3 billion euros, apart form the 2.24 billion euros agreed upon in the original contract, in order for it to build the Transylvania Highway, ‘Cotidianul’ daily informs. The daily published on December 5 a CNADNR letter in which Bechtel asked for a supplementation of funds. According to the quoted source, in case the new sum is approved a kilometre of Highway would cost 13 million euros, the largest price in Europe.
Transport Minister Ludovic Orban has on Tuesday said that following CNADNR’s request for hiking Transylvania Highway’s final cost to 5.02 billion euros, the Minister will finalize in December a memorandum on the necessity for this hike, Rompres informs. The Minister added that nobody could currently offer an estimate of the final cost, and that the contract was favourable for Bechtel from the start, being signed without the existence of a feasibility study. The signing of the contract was based merely on a pre-feasibility analysis that did not detail the project’s technical aspects and final cost. Bechtel representatives claim that the supplementation is necessary because the construction project needs far larger quantities of material than the ones approximated by the pre-feasibility study.
Orban added that the traffic communication and control system has started working on the Sun Highway (A2), on the Bucharest – Lehliu segment. Attending the event, the Minister of Transportation has stated that the investment totalled 3.17 million lei, no VAT included, and by May 1, 2008 the monitoring and telecommunication system will be finalized on the entire length of the A2 highway.
The Minister added that after that date no serious car crashes would take place because timely interventions will be made possible in all situations.
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