The Dolj County Council inaugurated, on Thursday morning, the road that connects the city of Segarcea with the village of Valea Stanciului. The road sector was rehabilitated and modernized by the County Council with European funds. The county authorities attracted the money for this modernization from two projects.
“The 24 km we are talking about, financed by two cross-border projects, totaled 14 million euros. There are 24 km that are now in special conditions. There were works both on the structure, but also on the restoration of bridges, footbridges with everything that means traffic elements of the latest standard. In this way, we complete the projects that we inaugurated in the past period. We can say that in these 4 years, 300 km meant an effort, but we can also see that the effort was more than welcome because the works also came out to a special standard”said the president of the Dolj County Council, Cosmin Vasile.
The 24 km cross a city and two localities. It is about Segarcea, Drănic and Valea Stanciului. Within the 2 projects for the modernization of DJ 561B carried out within Interreg VA Romania – Bulgaria, earthworks and works on the road structure were carried out, rainwater collection and routing systems were created, respectively road gutters, road gutters embankment, walled trenches and earth trenches. Transversal, tubular and flagstone bridges were also rehabilitated and modernized. The access points to the properties were set up in the urban areas, sidewalks, pedestrian crossings equipped with LED warning signs, with solar power, parking lots and bus stops were built.
“The Dolj County Council made huge financial efforts to rehabilitate the roads in Dolj. In our area there were enough problems, including with the workforce, but we received support from the county authorities”declared the mayor of Segarcea, Nicolae Tutunaru, for his part.
The investment targeted the modernization of two sections of DJ 561B Segarcea – Valea Stanciului, with a cumulative length of over 24 kilometers. With the realization of these investments, the entire road artery was modernized, given that a first section, 11 kilometers long, had been completed previously, with non-refundable funds accessed through the Operational Program for Transfrontier Cooperation Romania – Bulgaria. The general objective is to increase the degree of accessibility of a community of over 14,500 people from Dolj county to the TEN-T network, a community located in the area formed by three localities crossed by the county road DJ561B, Segarcea, Drănic and Valea Stanciului.
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