Roads in Romania
Overview of the various roads in Romania / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Public roads in Romania are ranked according to importance and traffic as follows:
- motorways (autostradă – pl. autostrăzi) – colour: green; designation: A followed by one or two digits
- expressways (drum expres – pl. drumuri expres) – colour: red; designation: DEx followed by one or two digits and an optional letter
- national road (drum național – pl. drumuri naționale) – colour: red; designation: DN followed by one or two digits and an optional letter
- county road (drum județean – pl. drumuri județene) – colour: blue; designation: DJ followed by three digits and an optional letter; unique numbers per county
- local road (drum comunal – pl. drumuri comunale) – colour: yellow; designated DC followed by a number and an optional letter; unique numbers per county
Some of the national roads are part of the European route scheme. European routes passing through Romania: E58; E60; E70; E85; E79; E81; E68; E87 (Class A); E574; E576; E581; E583; E671; E771.
As of 31 December 2021, public roads totaled 86,199 km (53,562 mi): 17,530 km (20.3%) national roads, 35,096 km (40.7%) county roads and 33,573 km (39%) local roads.[1]
From the point of view of the type of cover, the structure of the public road network registers at the end of 2019 was: 38,166 km (44.2%) modernized roads (92.8% with asphalt pavements of heavy/medium type and 7.8% with concrete), 21,365 km (24.7%) with light asphalt road clothing, 17,831 km (20.6%) cobblestone roads and 9,021 km (10.5%) dirt roads.[2] Of all cobblestone and dirt roads 73% are local roads.[2]
Regarding the technical condition, 13,411 km (35.1%) of modernized roads and 9,217 km (43.1%) of roads with light road clothing have exceeded their "service life".[2]