Pitești–Craiova Expressway


The Pitești-Craiova Expressway is an expressway partially under construction in the south-western part of Romania, previously labelled as A12, when it was considered as a future motorway. It will connect the cities of Pitești, Slatina and Craiova, being 121 km long, with an estimated total cost of 1.66 billion euro.

History

While planned as a motorway, the construction was tendered as a concession contract in March 2013, that should have been awarded until December 2013. It was also yet to be decided whether it would be built as a motorway or an expressway.
In April 2017, it was suggested for the first time that this road will be an express road and not a motorway. Despite receiving criticism in the media for this switch, the road was tendered in November 2017.
It is split into four lots. The tenders for the lots 3 and 4 were canceled in August 2018, while for the lots 1 and 2 the contracts were awarded in October 2018 to the Italian company Tirrena Scavi and the Romanian company Spedition UMB, respectively.