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Infrastructure: CNADNR: We have just 45% of money for road maintenance
The National Highway and National Road Company in Romania (CNADNR) has only 45% of the amount needed to carry out maintenance works for roads in Romania, said Floring Dascalu, maintenance director of the company at a press conference.
“200 million euros are gathered annually from road taxes, an amount which goes to CNADNR budget for designs, allocation of works, although it should be used only for maintenance, which gets only 40%. However, the World Bank said that 20,000 euros /km/year should be allocated , which means 300 million euros/year for road maintenance in Romania. This year we have at our disposal only 45% of the budget needed for all maintenance works,” Dascalu said.
The latter is also a representative of the Group of initiative for restructuring and re-professionalizing CNADNR, who next to the Roadster’s National Professional Union in Romania, organized a press conference on Monday, to reveal irregularities in the activity of the company.
In his turn, Alin Goga, juridical councillor at CNADNR and representative of the Initiative Group says that tens of million euros are spent annually on feasibility studies for projects which never materialize.
Goga considers that although initially, CNADNR announced that 70 km of highway would be completed this year, not more than 50 km will be finished, due to the lack of specialists.
Previously he had said, at the same conference, that all streets in Romania are full of holes and have the same problems as the Sibiu-Orastie section which was demolished.
At the same time, Florin Dascalu pointed out the lack of specialists within CNADNR.
“Of the 6,000 company employees only 169 are road engineers (3%). Big university centres have road engineers who graduate but the state does not use them. Only 29 of the 49 sections heads are road engineers, the rest are economists or law and PR graduates. The company should be run by a road engineer, I don’t think a road engineer cannot be found in this country,” Dascalu said.
CNADNR answered on Monday in a press release that the press conference was an untruthful campaign against its activity, which affects relations with its partners.