Centura București ( en,

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Beltway, Bucharest Ring Road, italic=yes), sometimes referred to as the DNCB, is a national-class road in

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, circling the capital city of

. It is not to be mistaken with the planned

Bucharest Ring Motorway The Bucharest Ring Motorway (or the Bucharest Belt Motorway, ro, Autostrada Centura București), termed A0, is a motorway ring in construction around the city of Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It is intended to be the outer ring to the exi ...

( ro, Autostrada Centura București), which will encircle the city at a further distance.

Sections

It is divided into two major sections, the northern section and the southern section. The northern section has been widened to four lanes in 2010, between the

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(

DN7 DN7 ( ro, Drumul Național 7) is a national road in Romania which links Bucharest with the Banat region, in western Romania, and further to the eastern European capitals Budapest and Belgrade via the border with Hungary at Nădlac. It is a high- ...

) and the

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( DN2) junctions, and a

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was opened along the ring road in April 2011, in the

Otopeni Otopeni () is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania, some north of Bucharest along the DN1 road to Ploiești. It has 15,850 inhabitants, of which 99.0% are ethnic Romanians. One village, Odăile, is administered by the city. Henri Coandă ...

area, which overpasses the railway ring (built by a joint-venture of the Spanish company

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and the Austrian company Alpine). It is planned to be further upgraded, in both the northern, and the southern sections, with construction contracts awarded in 2012 and in 2009 respectively. In the northern section, works have started in October 2013 for further widening to four lanes the segments between the DN7 and the A1 junctions, and between the DN2 and the A2 junctions. The contract for the section between the DN2 and the A2 junctions was terminated (at 7% completion status) in February 2015, as the construction company became insolvent (the Romanian company Tehnologica Radion), and, although it was later awarded again in February 2018 to a joint-venture led by the Chinese company

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, this result was challenged and rejected, the final decision still pending to be given. The section between the DN7 and the A1 junctions (built by a joint-venture led by the Romanian company Delta ACM 93) was opened to traffic on four lanes in September and October 2017, but with reportedly incomplete works.

References

External links

Route of Centura București (YouTube video)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Centura Bucuresti Roads in Romania