Transport minister: Current Comarnic-Brasov motorway project must be restructured

The project of the motorway linking Comarnic to Brasov (north of the capital) will go on if the authorities manage to restructure it, namely to find a financial model to be more efficient for the Romanian budget, in the achievement of which such international financial institutions as the EIB and the EBRD should take part, Transport Minister Ioan Rus told AGERPRES on Saturday.

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He added that talks with a consortium made up of Vinci-Strabag-Aktor, which won a contract to build the motorway will go on till April on the above-mentioned coordinates of the restructuring of the project.

The minister insisted that building a motorway to link Comarnic to Brasov will not be abandoned, but that only the best solution is being sought for, to be backed both by the governing parties and the opposition, one that the Romanians should agree on and should meet the present economic-financial conditions of Romania.

Rus explained that, following the public debate that the motorway project had been put to, positions for and against were revealed.

'I had a meeting a few days ago with the group having won this competitive dialogue, namely Vinci-Strabag-Aktor. At this moment, following the decision that the prime minister and I made, namely to put the project (of building Comarnic-Brasov motorway) to public debate, a range of diverging positions emerged. To these added the parliamentarians' conclusions following the talks with the two (transport) committees in the Parliament, namely several opposition MPs said this project is not good. Other leaders, neutral persons from public positions said the project is difficult to support financially from the state budget', he stressed.
The minister added, 'We...