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Romanian PM Says Large Infrastructure Works Should Have Been Done In The ’90s

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Saturday the Government is having trouble paying people expropriated for infrastructure works and the matter could have been solved a lot cheaper in the '90s.
Romanian PM Says Large Infrastructure Works Should Have Been Done In The '90s
Oana Gavrila
11 sept. 2010, 18:51, English

Boc on Saturday inspected, together with Transport Minister Anca Boagiu, works on the beltway of Drobeta Turnu Severin, in southwestern Romania, and said works are advancing on schedule.

Boc said problems with paying for expropriations are the same for all towns and cities where beltways are under construction, adding such infrastructure works should have been done in the ’90s, a lot cheaper.

„In 2011 and 2012, we have to use privatization proceeds and money from the future sale of (state-owned freight railway company) CFR Marfa to co-finance European projects and pay for expropriations. Had we expropriated people for large infrastructure works back in the ’90s, it would have cost us about a quarter of what we have to pay now,” Boc said.

Italian consortium Pizzarotti-Tirrena Scavi started works on the Drobeta Turnu Severin beltway in the summer of 2008 and is supposed to finish them in 55 months. The works for the 12-kilometer long road cost EUR35.5 million, of which 75% come from European funds.

Boc said in August authorities plan to finish works on beltways around Sibiu, Cluj, Turnu Severin and Lugoj and continue works on two highways this year.