The Danube Bridge 2 makes travelling in and out of Bulgaria through Vidin much easier than it was previously by ferry boat. [16] The final agreement was that the second Danube bridge was to be built between Vidin and Calafat, but Romania refused to invest in other than the adjacent infrastructure on their territory.[17]. Due to the early completion of the repair works, the passage of motor vehicles through the overpass on road III-122 from Vidin to Novo Selo, road junction "Novo Selo", is carried out normally in both traffic lanes of the overpass.„DanubebridgeVidin-Calafat“ АD, 07.12.2020, Due to the repair of the overpass on road III-122 from Vidin to Novo selo, road junction “Novo selo”, from November 25th 2020 to December 09th 2020 a temporary road organization will be introduced. The Cernavodă Bridge is a complex of two motorway-railroad truss bridges in Romania, across the Danube River, connecting the cities of Cernavodă and Feteşti. [29] These procedures slowed down the real start of the building process to a great extent. Even though the linking roads are still far from motorway standards, the New Europe Bridge (Danube Bridge 2) has become highly popular among transport companies, because it provides a road with no custom checks from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey to Austria, Germany and the rest of Europe, through Romania and Hungary, without leaving the European Union. Ruse oblast is more defined by the Danube valley than its neighbors. Looking tremendous. They are also protesting against air pollution in the city. [20][21], In 2012, the cost of building the Danube Bridge 2 and its adjoining infrastructures raised to the sum of €226 million. Ruse is probably the most vibrant of all the Danube cities in Bulgaria. By April 2012, only one segment in between the bridge decks of PB 9 and PB10 was still missing. The transit fee is 6 Euros", "European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries", "Strategy for the development of the transport system of the Republic of Bulgaria until 2020", "Topul celor mai aglomerate sosele din Romania. [9] In fact, the whole country became isolated, since Bulgarians had always been relying on the road through Serbia for their transit transport to Western Europe.[10]. The foundation of the pillars in the navigable channel of the river were built during the same year by special foundation contractor TERRATEST. Chairman of this stability pact was Bodo Hombach, who had set up a great lobby in favor of the new bridge between Vidin and Calafat. In 2004, a research on the design of the bridge was financed by the PHARE program. The national road from Sofia to Vidin (I-1/E79) is linked to the Hemus motorway (A2) up to the city of Botevgrad, and continues with a dual carriageway road to Vratsa. New Danube bridge to speed up international traffic. Last, the Calafat-Vidin bridge does not yet have any motorway connections (see below). [9] In January 2001, the cost for the bridge construction and the adjacent roads toward the bridge was estimated at US$200 million. The bridge would be constructed in Romania’s Dobrogea Region. [54] These are not among the busiest roads in the country, according to a study conducted in 2010. By June 2010, only the bridge crossing over the small island had been built. After this gap was closed, one could walk halfway across the Danube river. The tender process is being opened by the Romanian National Agency for the Administration of Road Infrastructure (CNAIR). Protesters demand the resignations of Premier Boyko Borissov and prosecutor General Ivan Geshev. The gap between the bridge decks of pillars PB10 and PB11 was closed during the summer. The New Europe Bridge, previously known as the Danube Bridge 2 (Bulgarian: Дунав мост 2, Dunav most 2), and informally called the Vidin-Calafat Bridge or Calafat-Vidin Bridge (Bulgarian: Мост Видин–Калафат, Most Vidin–Kalafat; Romanian: Podul Calafat–Vidin), is a road and rail bridge between the cities of Vidin, Bulgaria, and Calafat, Romania. The Danube River catchment basin comprises 42.5% of the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria and total… This road is shorter and very scenic, but it takes more time as it runs over the Balkan Mountains and through the villages. New bridge, road and railway passage over the Danube in Braila, Tulcea counties, Romania. [citation needed] From Lugoj, the first 11.5 km long section of the A6 motorway provides a link to the currently partially under construction A1 motorway and thereby further to Nădlac and the Hungarian border. The bridge is located between Vidin (Bulgaria) and Calafat (Romania).It is 1971 meters long. 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Bulgaria and Romania will build another bridge over the Danube, near Ruse, the fifth-largest city in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said yesterday evening, reports Novinite.. [15] Romania wanted transiting trucks to stay in their country as long as possible by placing the bridge further east, between Turnu Măgurele and Nikopol. Only 16 months after its official opening there are potholes in the road from the bridge to the toll gates, as can be seen further on in the aforementioned video. In February 2012, the Bulgarian Minister of European Union Funds Management Tomislav Donchev said that he expected the bridge to be finished by the end of 2012. Due to the failure to meet the original deadline, Bulgaria almost lost the financing of the whole project,[32] but they were granted more time to finish the bridge by the end of 2012,.[33]. In 2005 and 2006, consultants were hired to control all procedures in the building process and private companies were invited to send in a bid. The design was to have 13 pairs of stay cables attached to every main pillar in the navigable channel of the Danube river. [18][19] Thanks to the lobby of Bodo Hombach, the European Investment Bank granted the project a credit loan of €50 million in December 2000. DIRECTION FROM BULGARIA TO ROMANIA /prices in BGN and EURO/ According DECREE … The bridge is located near the middle of this reversed S. At most part of the Danube river, the Bulgarian bank lies slightly higher above water than the Romanian river bank. The cost of building the bridge, without the adjoining infrastructures was estimated in 2000 to be €99 million. Repairs took 4 months and were paid by the FCC company, through the warranty established. The New Europe Bridge, previously known as the Danube Bridge 2 (Bulgarian: Дунав мост 2, Dunav most 2), and informally called the Calafat-Vidin Bridge (Bulgarian: Мост Видин–Калафат, Most Vidin–Kalafat; Romanian: Podul Calafat–Vidin), is a road and rail bridge between the cities of Vidin, Bulgaria, and Calafat, Romania. Danube Bridge 2 between Bulgaria and Romania: The Bridge of Shame! This is because here the Danube has a very large mirrored S-shape, spanning across approximately 90 kilometres (56 mi), starting at Novo Selo and ending in Lom. The bridge has a separated path for pedestrians and cyclists, but the approach to this cycling track seems to be not signposted clearly enough. [6] The first vehicles were allowed to cross the bridge after midnight, on 15 June 2013. In 1998, Greece offered to invest in the bridge, since they wanted a road linking Thessaloniki to the rest of Europe through Romania, as Greece was also cut off from Europe by the war in Kosovo and the boycott against Yugoslavia. Between 2007 and 2009 not much progress had been achieved. [22], Construction officially began on 13 May 2007 in Vidin in the presence of Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev and Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe Erhard Busek. [14] This detour to Ruse often took longer than waiting for a ferry in Vidin or Oryahovo, however, both ways of crossing the border can take a long time. Formerly known as Danube Bridge 2, the New Europe Bridge is part of a major transport infrastructure upgrade in Bulgaria and Romania. Note: Sorry for the dirty windshield, water frozen at SOFIA, BG!!!! The bridge connecting it to the capital of Romania, Bucharest, is only 45 miles (75 km) away, and makes it a popular weekend destination with the inhabitants of the Romanian capital. If the building process continued at the same speed, reportedly, one may have expected that the last gap, between pillars PB11 and PB12, was closed in November 2012. After some delay, the bridge was officially opened on 14 June 2013.[6]. [34] Throughout the year 2012 the bridge got into shape. [8], Building a bridge between Calafat (in Romania) and Vidin (in Bulgaria) had been discussed more seriously since the late 1970s, but the plan was abandoned over and over again. It remained however uncertain when vehicles were to be able to cross the bridge, as the finishing works, such as paving the bridge deck and mounting safety barriers, were expected to take several months. At the point where the railway meets the road, a gap in the median crash barrier has been adapted to serve as a U-turn lane. 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In its first year of operation, it was discovered that water was leaking in between the asphalt road cover and the bridge deck. Crossing borders from Bulgaria to Romania through Ruse/Giurgiu bridge of Danube River. The Danube provides a natural border between Bulgaria and Romania. Starting from 1993, there was a long and bitter dispute between Romania and Bulgaria about the location of the second Danube bridge. Senior government officials from Bulgaria and Romania, including the two heads of government, and European Commissioner for regional policy Johannes Hahn attended on June 14 the official opening of the bridge over the Danube River between Vidin and Calafat. Travelling through Serbia was usually faster, but crossing outside the borders of the European Union can be a hassle with customs. It is the second bridge on the shared section of the Danube between the two countries. It will provide for both road and rail links. „DanubebridgeVidin-Calafat“ АD, 10.11.2020, Due to implementation of repair works on road overpass on E-79 in the Romanian part of the Border check-point at Danube Bridge Vidin–Calafat, from October 26th 2020 to November 09th 2020 a temporary road organization will be introduced. Dry summers come with low water levels in the Danube river, which sometimes caused the ferry to get stuck at the loading ramp, making waiting times even longer. [42], The longest line of waiting trucks on the bridge could add up to 100 trucks, with a total maximum weight of 4,000 tonnes, assuming that every truck would be loaded to a maximum of 40 tonnes. [50] Traffic analysis on this route have indicated that (as of 2013) it did not require a motorway status,[51] therefore Bulgaria's priorities remain finishing the already started motorway projects, such as the Hemus and the Struma motorways, as well as the new planned Europe motorway, between Sofia and the Serbian border. Romania’s Government is evaluating plans for a new bridge project, which would span the River Danube. The project has an estimated cost of nearly €440 million. The height of the bridge is consistent with the high water of the Danube river and the height of the largest ships, that guarantees their free passage. Before this bridge opened, the only connection between Bulgaria and Romania was the Ruse bridge (in the east, around 55 kilometres from Vidin), which will now be refurbished. Instead of its official name, Bulgarians tend to simply call it the Dunav most, which means Danube Bridge. As early as in 1909[7] the local authorities in Vidin (in Bulgaria) had first expressed their interest in building a bridge to Calafat (in Romania), by sending a petition to the Bulgarian parliament and to Aleksandar Malinov, who was prime minister at that time. "The Calafat-Vidin bridge will be inaugurated on June 14th. However, the city of Vidin is lying lower and is protected by dikes, while the bank on the Calafat side is high above Danube river. On 3 October 2012, the remaining gap in the bridge was only 18 metres (59 ft). It is also part of the European route E79, that runs from Miskolc (Hungary) to Thessaloniki (Greece), via the Romanian cities of Beiuş, Deva, Petroşani, Târgu Jiu and Craiova. The idea was to have these segments ready long before they were needed, so that the assembly of the superstructure of the bridge could not be delayed because of possible quality problems with the concrete. The official opening has been scheduled for June 14 and will be attended by Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta and European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn. A new bridge spanning the Danube River along the 430 km border between Bulgaria and Romania is due to open in 2011. The new bridge connecting Romania and Bulgaria via the cities of Calafat and Vidin should be ready at the beginning of May and crossing the bridge across the Danube will cost EUR 2 for cars. [68], Effective from 1 July 2013, the following tolls apply for crossing the New Europe Bridge:[69]. There is also another road from Sofia to Vidin (81), via Kostinbrod and through the Petrohan Pass to Montana. Today it's just the "Danube Bridge". Although Bulgaria is south of Romania, crossing the Danube Bridge 2 from Vidin towards Calafat is done from northwest to southeast. Vehicles travelling from Vidin to Novo selo shall use one of the two lanes of the roadway. Some of these technical details consisted of setting up cabins for the border police that checks the traffic between Bulgaria and Romania. There are plans for upgrading the road from Botevgrad to Vidin to an expressway (dual carriageway road without hard shoulder), with a tender for the construction of several sections announced at the end of 2012. As of October 2014, any vehicle driving from Vidin to Calafat can be seen on, This page was last edited on 30 December 2020, at 18:11. The Danube Bridge 2 is part of the Pan-European Corridor IV. A research under the European PHARE programme found that the most profitable place for the bridge would have been between Lom and Rast, but neither countries agreed with this. The Vidin-Calafat bridge is part of the Pan-European Corridor IV, which runs from Dresden (Germany) to Istanbul (Turkey) and is considered an essential network for the development of transport in the area. Axa București-Giurgiu, principala victimă a noului pod peste Dunăre", "Bulgaria: Bulgaria, Romania PMs To Premiere Danube Bridge 2", No Sign of Romanian Worker Who Fell off Danube Bridge 2, Novinite, 21 November 2012, retrieved 1 June 2013, News on website of FCC: The Construction of Danube Bridge Vidin-Calafat – unbreakable, 26.05.2013. [41] His body was not found. Danube shoreline in summer, Bulgaria – view to the bridge axis Based on the preliminary EIA report, and in accordance with Bulgarian and Romanian legislation, the competent environmental authorities and local authorities from both countries also organized public hearings, with the public concerned and with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in Calafat and Vidin in January 2002. The DN56A road from Calafat to Drobeta-Turnu Severin has recently been rehabilitated. The movement of vehicles from Bulgaria to Romania shall use the right lane on the roadway. Waiting at the Serbian customs can take 1 to 5 hours, especially during the summer season, when many immigrants travel back to their families. Despite the low water levels in the Danube river construction continued swiftly, working on the abutment A3, on the Romanian river bank. [47] [37] At the event, the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov declared that he expected that the bridge would be opened in spring 2013. Vidin-Based Company to Run 2nd Bulgaria-Romania Bridge, Bulgaria, Romania to Divide Danube Bridge 2 Toll Revenues according to Investments, Novinite/Sofia News Agency, 29 October 2012, retrieved 1 June 2013, 2nd Bulgaria-Romania Bridge to Be Launched May Earliest, Novinite, 9 April 2013, retrieved 1 June 2013, Bulgarian President: Danube Bridge 2 to Be Ready by Mid-May, Novinite, 10 April 2013, retrieved 1 June 2013. Foundation per pier was composed by 24 in situ piles 2 m diameter and depths ranging between 68 and 80 m (one of the deepest in situ foundation project in Europe), executed by maritime means. The Vidin-Calafat Bridge over the Danube River will provide an important link in the transport infra-structure of both Bulgaria and Romania, and will form part of the southern branch of the pan-European transport Corridor number IV. Constantine’s Bridge on the Danube River, the largest river bridge in ancient times, was a bridge in the Roman Empire which connected the major city of Ulpia Oescus (today’s Gigen in Northern Bulgaria) in the Moesia Superior province with Sucidava (today’s Corabia in Southern Romania) in the Dacia Province.. Traffic will remain blocked until 8 pm, the demonstrators warned. [57] This photo taken on Thursday, June 13, 2013 shows the new bridge between Bulgaria and Romania, in the town of Vidin, Bulgaria. Kilometer markers are set up along the Danube river and counting starts at the Black Sea. A new Danube bridge being constructed over the River Danube between Bulgaria and Romania is due for completion by 2012. Visible construction actually started in 2009, on the Bulgarian bank of the Danube river. [25][failed verification][26][dead link]. In 1999, a stability pact for South East Europe was signed by banks and national governments, aiming to bring investments to countries like Bulgaria and Romania. [12][13] About one month after the opening of the bridge, the ferry service between Vidin and Calafat was suspended. "Friendship Bridge" is actually a former name. [48], According to the planned road network of Pan-European corridors, the bridge was supposed to have access to the Bucharest – Craiova – Timișoara – Budapest motorway by 2017, allowing rapid transit from North-western Bulgaria, to South-western Romania, Eastern Hungary and the rest of Europe. The Vidin-Calafat bridge is part of the Pan-European Corridor IV, which runs from Dresden (Germany) to Istanbul (Turkey) and is considered an essential network for the development of transport in the area. Cyclists approaching the bridge from Vidin, Bulgaria would have to cross the approach road 1/E79 at some point, to get to the cycling track on the left side of the road, but crash barriers stand in their way. [6], The issue of the establishment of a management company that would operate the bridge and collect tolls was solved. [58], The remainder of the A6 motorway, currently in the pre-feasibility phase, would include a connection to the bridge in one of its considered routes,[59] and a new planned European transit route named Via Carpathia, connecting Lithuania to Greece, was recently discussed in the European Parliament and includes the Calafat–Vidin Bridge on its route. Vehicles travelling from Novo selo to Vidin shall use a bypass route through the road E79 and the “Bregovo” road junction. Official website of the maintenance company of the bridge, website of the construction of Danube Bridge 2, Construction of ... 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[44], The opening of the bridge was estimated to take place in May 2013,[45][46] but technical problems have caused further delay. [39] In October 2012 it was expected that this company would be located in Sofia.[40]. During the night, with little trucks arriving, ferry passengers had to wait several hours to cross the Danube river. The section will be provided with the relevant road signs! The section will be provided with the relevant road signs!„Danube bridge Vidin-Calafat“ АD, 24.11.2020, Due to implementation of repair works on road overpass on E-79 in the Romanian part of the Border check-point at Danube Bridge Vidin–Calafat, beginning from November 10th 2020 until November 16th 2020 a temporary road organization will be introduced. Residents of the Danube city of Ruse blocked traffic near Danube Bridge border crossing at the Bulgaria-Romania border. The total length of Bulgaria’s borders is 2,245 kilometres. This has been fixed by a sign warning that the road ahead is a toll road, just a few hundred metres before the bridge. Meanwhile, the Danube riverbank was being prepared for the construction of a concrete factory. [64], Before the opening of the bridge, Bulgarian Minister of Transport Ivaylo Moskovski said that he expected traffic across the bridge to exceed 100,000 vehicles in the first year,[65] although initially estimates suggested a volume of 3,000 vehicles per day,[66] which is closer to the one of the Giurgiu–Ruse Bridge. The company that manages the bridge is based in Vidin,[43] the road tolls are collected at the Romanian side of the bridge and each side receives the part of the tolls that they have invested in the bridge (about 80% of the toll funds will go to Bulgaria). The bridge is the second on the 500-kilometer stretch of the Danube River that forms the common border between the Balkan neighbors, and is touted as a key to boosting growth in one of Europe's poorest regions. The main pillars became clearly visible throughout 2011. The movement of vehicles from Bulgaria to Romania shall use right lane on the roadway. [23][24] According to former Romanian Minister of Transport, Constructions and Tourism Radu Berceanu, construction was planned to be completed in 2010, with most of the construction to be done by Bulgarian subcontractors.[25][26]. The toll is collected at toll booths, located on the Romanian side. Out of these borders, 1,181 kilometres are on land, 686 kilometres are on rivers – including the river Danube, which flows along Bulgaria's border with Romania - and 378 kilometres are on the sea. It was officially opened with a ceremony held on 14 June 2013. [35] Bulgarian radio reporters found out about a technical problem: the difference in the height of the bridge deck between two sides of the gap was 45 centimetres (18 in), so closing of the gap was not possible before both bridge decks were adjusted to the same height level. The movement of vehicles from Bulgaria to Romania shall use the right lane on the roadway. Starting at PB9, the bridge deck was extended segment by segment and soon the first stay cables could be seen. The two countries were initially set to become part of the Schengen Area by the time the bridge would open, and no border police cabins had been ordered until the very last moment. The project will construct a new bridge, main road and connecting road, improving transport links from the Black Sea to north-east Romania. This bridge is located 307 kilometres (191 mi) downstream and before 2013 it was the only other bridge across the Danube border that Bulgaria shares with Romania. 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