New Europe Bridge
43.99398888888922.906663888889Koordinaten: 43 ° 59 ' 38.4 "N, 22 ° 54' 24" E
F1
( Bridge New Europe )
The following modes:
- Single-track railway line
- Each with 2 lanes in each direction for road transport
- Combined pedestrian and bicycle
Danube, 796 km
Called Danube Bridge 2 ( bridge ' New Europe' ), also bridge Vidin - Calafat ( Bulgarian Дунав мост 2, or Мост Видин - Калафат; Romanian Calafat - Vidin Podul ) is a bridge over the Danube between the Bulgarian city of Vidin and the Romanian Calafat. It is next to the Giurgiu - Ruse Friendship Bridge only the second fixed link of the Danube between the two countries. It is part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor IV
At this point, the Romanian banks is higher than the Bulgarian, which is protected by dikes.
History
The first project for the construction of a second bridge over the Danube between Romania and Bulgaria was adopted in 1974 and should be made between Turnu Măgurele and Nikopol. In the early 1990s, during the embargo due to the Yugoslav wars, the plan was back for discussion. There new connections between Romania and Bulgaria were discussed: Vidin - Calafat, Nikopol - Turnu Măgurele, Lom - Rast, Oryahovo - Bechet and Gigen - Corabia.
In early 2000, both countries were able to agree in the framework of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe over a building at Vidin - Calafat. Between 2001 and 2003, the economics and financing options have been examined and made geological investigations. After the approval of the funding that has been largely taken over by Bulgaria, was commissioned to build the beginning of 2007 according to a 2006 tender Fomento de Construcciones y the Spanish Contratas. The construction should be finished by 2010, the schedule was extended because of the geological structure and the late Romanian building permit. On December 20, 2012 was finally the shell is passed to the client. This was followed by connection work in the area of track and road.
The official opening took place on 14 June 2013. Traffic The release of the second bridge over the Danube, the ' New Europe' was baptized Saturday was around midnight, so on June 15, 2013 at 0:00 clock.
By the end of June, the crossing of the bridge was free. The use of the bridge is still free for pedestrians and cyclists, for crossing with motor vehicles a toll is charged. Until now, transport operators for trips to Western Europe to take the choice between the long detour via Russian or the long waits for customs at the Serbian border in purchase to bypass the expensive and only hourly ferry service in Vidin. The car ferry price at the time was EUR 30, - for truck EUR 105, -
On October 28, 2013 heavy construction defects at the bridge became known: There were potholes in the asphalt caused because the drainage was not in order. According to media headlines may even existed the danger of collapse, but this was greatly exaggerated. There was a risk that the water under the voiding asphalt layer penetrates through the damaged seal in the concrete of the bridge, which in winter will cause damage to load-bearing parts of the structure could lead. However, due to timely intervention such damages could be prevented. Because no guarantee or reimbursement obligation had been agreed with the Spanish construction company FCC, neighboring countries will probably have to pay for the renovation.
Toll
Since 1 July 2013 the following toll fees shall be:
Connection
The new bridge with four lanes is against the local infrastructure greatly oversized. Your mutual connections to the road network, however, is from the last century. The results from the previous low traffic volume, as there was only one ferry as a connection. The picture shows the European route E79/bulgarische Highway No. 1 between Vidin and Montana with good road surface and free of congestion or heavy traffic. From the bridge exit to Bulgarian to highway are 200 km and three hours driving time. On the route, there is no local diversions, the entire heavy traffic passes respectively through the town center. Later in the direction of Sofia highway 81 with their mountain passes and hairpin curves is then an even bigger obstacle to the truck traffic.
Trucks are routed between Vidin and Vratsa and Sofia on Botevgrad, because the highway 81 over the mountain pass ' Petrohanski Prohod ' is for trucks over 10 tons wishing to travel from Montana on Berkovica and Kostinbrod to Sofia prohibited. The highway 81 is more of a feeder road to the Nature Reserve gornata Koria / Горната кория. A highway expansion with viaducts and tunnels as Botevgrad is not expected at Petrohanski Prohod.
However, it is planned for the highway 1/E79 of Botevgrad to Montana and Vidin an expressway ( skorosten PAT).
On the Romanian side, there is a preliminary design for an A6 motorway between Lugoj and Calafat. The shortest route from Calafat to Timisoara and Szeged ( Hungary ) via the regional road 56A through numerous villages and over Vânju Mare, after Drobeta Turnu Severin, where it on the highway 6/E70 goes to the A1 motorway at Lugoj. The truck traffic from Calafat after Drobeta Turnu Severin is diverted via the trunk road 56 to Craiova, because trucks are prohibited on the regional road 56A. On the highway 6/E70 between Lugoj and Drobeta Turnu Severin some bypasses were built. Pictures of it can be found in SkyScraperCityForum.
Financing
Total costs and their sources
The cost of the entire bridge amounted to approximately 300 million euros. Of which fell on the Bulgarian side to 225 million euro and 48 million euro Romanian. The Bulgarian part was financed as follows:
- 70 million euro - EU ISPA program
- 70 million euros - loan from the European Investment Bank
- 05 million euros - Credit Agence Française de Développement
- 20 million euros - of the Reconstruction Loan Corporation, of which 18 million credit
- 60 million euros - from the Bulgarian state budget.
The Romanian proportion was also largely financed from the EU ISPA program.
Costs and their allocation
- Total cost of 256 million Euros project
- Planning and construction of the bridge 146 million euros
- Supervision of the bridge 18 million euros
- Shuttle infrastructure 77 million euros
- Supervision feeder infrastructure 6.5 million euros
- Project Management 8 million euros
- Buying Land 1 million euros