The establishment of a new company to deal with large investment projects in the road infrastructure is not necessary anymore, in the conditions in which all the projects included in the operational programmes and in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) are implemented or in the process of being implemented, stated in an interview granted to AGERPRES, the general director of National Road Infrastructure Administration Company, Cristian Pistol.
Pistol added that the portfolio of the CNAIR remained untouched after the operationalization of the National Road Investment Company (CNIR, established in 2016), adding that no project in the design and execution phase went to the CNIR, but only those that had a feasibility study in implementation or those for which the Government Decision approving the technical-economic indicators was issued.
He specified that, at the CNAIR level, more than 781 kilometers of motorway and expressway are under construction, of which 263 km are in the design stage and 518 km are in the execution stage. In this context, this year almost 200 new kilometers of motorway and expressway will be put into use, including the Autostrada Moldovei.
Cristian Pistol said about the establishment of the CNIR that it only drained employees from CNAIR because of the better salary packages.
"After there was this shortage in the market, with the operationalization of this CNIR, it was not possible to do anything other than take over, basically, people who were employed at CNAIR to the detriment of the activity that we carry out here," said Pistol.
Regarding the Braila bridge, about which the minister of Transport, Sorin Grindeanu, recently stated that the technical solution of those from We Build is not the best, Pistol said that regarding "the bituminous layer of the bridge, it seems that it was not executed according to the project. The results I requested from CESTRIN showed that it is not good. They have already started repair work on the current bituminous mixture, but this does not give us a guarantee that the work will be done well, because, as I told you, the solution chosen by them is not the best and they want to come up with another proposal for the bituminous mixtures. Also, both Mr. Grindeanu and I have communicated very clearly that we will not accept this work, this investment objective until the works will be done according to the contract and when there will be no more non-conformities, when these non-conformities will be closed, then this investment objective will have its reception done," Pistol emphasized.
As for the southern Giurgiu bridge, the Friendship Bridge, which is under repair on the Bulgarian side, "their communication was almost non-existent, which I do not consider to be a correct attitude towards a neighbouring state, especially in the conditions in which the administration of this bridge is done jointly. To make decisions of this kind without communicating a work calendar, without giving us certain technical information regarding the works you are going to do and not even saying when these works will begin, leaving the citizens of Romania, as well as those from Bulgaria, as well as those who transit the two countries, in a fog, not knowing exactly when they can cross, when the traffic on the bridge is restricted (...) For example, the traffic lights that they do for two-way traffic on a single lane (the Bulgarians, ed. n.) they considered that they should put it in the middle of the bridge, and the Romanian side of the bridge is loaded with overtonnage, high tonnage, 40-tonne trucks, waiting to turn green on the bridge and transit the Bulgarian side, which is not normal, to load the bridge on the Romanian side to the brim, because they did not do a joint traffic management with us," Cristian Pistol added.
"On the Romanian side, damage will definitely occur, taking into account that heavy traffic is parked on the bridge, not being able to stop them before this traffic light that was installed by them exactly halfway up the bridge, in their area of administration," CNAIR head added.
In what regards the transit of the Danube by ferry in the Giurgiu area, "CNAIR is prepared to operate this area, but this border crossing point is private, it is not administered by the Romanian state" and, "From what I know, it is not operational yet," Pistol said.
Valea Oltului, "another hot topic. (...) I always wanted to find solutions without restricting traffic on DN7. But, from all the calculations presented to me by those who are part of the builders' association, this option did not exist without endangering the lives of those who transit the Olt Valley on DN7, for which we were practically obliged to take the measure of traffic restriction during the day, taking into account the fact that boulders, alluvium, tree trunks slide from on the slope, being a very steep slope, in the body of the national road, which presents a very great danger, as I have presented throughout this period, since we started the restrictions until now," Cristian Pistol underlined.
As for the Autostrada Moldovei, Cristian Pistol said that "Two lots, from Ploiesti to Buzau will be completed this year, planned for reception this year there are two more lots from Buzau to Focsani, but I am convinced that, as it was mobilized the Romanian contractor on these lots - he has from Buzau to Pascani, all the lots are practically contracted by a single Romanian company, UMB - and as I saw him mobilized on the construction site, I am convinced that more than two lots will be completed this year. There will be more before the deadline," Pistol stressed.
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