Metrorex set to start two 300m-euro construction sites in autumn

Metrorex, the company managing the Bucharest underground, this
year is tendering investment projects totally worth above 1.2bn RON
(300m euros), through which unfinished works for section 4 (1
Mai-Pajura-Parc Bazilescu), as well as Line 5 (Drumul
Taberei-Eroilor) will be carried out. 1 Mai-Parc Bazilescu will be
finalised in the first half of 2011, while works for Drumul
Taberei-Eroilor will end in 2015. Thus, in 2011 the capital city is
likely to become again a site for underground works, as it happened
before the ’90s, considering the project related to the underground
line to Otopeni airport will be added to the two above-mentioned
projects. “This year, works will be carried out for the 1 Mai-Parc
Bazilescu section, to be finalised in the first half of 2011, and
Section 5 Drumul Taberei-Eroilor, for which tenders are underway,
with works most likely to start at the end of summer. We have the
necessary funds for these projects from the state budget and
foreign loans,” stated Gheorghe Udriste, general manager of
Metrorex.