Construction of the 130-kilometer Brasov-Sibiu highway in Romania's Fagaras-Brasov section is expected to start in early 2022.

In July 2021, the government's road construction and management company CNAIR signed a design contract for the 43km Fagaras-Brasov section of the long-delayed highway. Transport Minister Catalin Drula noted at the time that the Fagaras-Brasov section of the A3 Transylvania motorway was put up for auction in spring 2022 after 10 years of abandonment. The cost of the entire Brasov-Sibiu highway is about $1.7 billion. According to reports, the construction of the Sibiu-Fagaras section of the Brasov-Sibiu highway is in an advanced stage.

Romanian Finance Minister Nazale said that Romania cannot build highways at a stable pace, which is caused by a number of reasons, including stability issues, conceptual issues and coordination issues. Infrastructure construction requires planning, and once the goal is set, it cannot be changed at will. Macro-planning exists on the basis of predictability, which involves the concept of development at the national level, and all political factors need to be considered so that the project does not change due to changes in government. Taking the Sibiu-Pitesti expressway project as an example, Nathan said that the financing negotiation with the EU was very complicated and involved various issues such as procurement.Editor/XingWentao