Romania opened on Sunday, August 31, 47 new kilometres on the A7 motorway between Adjud and Bacău — lot 2 (Adjud–Răcăciuni, 24.5 km) and lot 3 (Răcăciuni–Bacău, 21.5 km). It is the fourth-longest single-day motorway opening in the country’s history.
With this section, 241.62 km of the 319-km Ploiești–Pașcani route are now open — nearly three quarters.
The NRRP deadline — missed
By today, August 31, 2026, the A7 motorway was supposed to reach Pașcani, under the commitment in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. It did not. Three lots between Bacău and Pașcani, totalling 77.39 kilometres, are still under construction:
| Lot | Km | Physical progress |
|---|---|---|
| Bacău–Săbăoani (Lot 1) | 30.3 | 70% |
| Săbăoani–Negrești (Lot 2) | 19.0 | 62% |
| Negrești–Pașcani (Lot 3) | 28.1 | 57% |
The estimate from the Pro Infrastructură association, quoted by Digi24: A7 could reach Pașcani only by the summer of 2027, “under favourable conditions.” Approximately EUR 700 million have been redirected from the NRRP transport budget to other projects; from January 1, 2027, unfinished lots move to the standard European transport funds programme.
From Bacău to Ungheni: 175 kilometres on old roads
A resident of Ungheni heading to Bucharest now has a motorway from Bacău onwards — approximately 305 km, covered in about two and a half hours. But from Ungheni to Bacău, 175 kilometres on ordinary roads remain, without a single motorway segment.
Once A7 reaches Pașcani, the distance without a motorway will shrink to 98 kilometres — those of the future A8 motorway (Pașcani–Iași–Ungheni), on which no construction work has begun. All four sections of the Iași sector are at the design stage or blocked by legal challenges.
The only motorway element under construction on this stretch remains the Prut bridge at Ungheni, at 55% physical progress as of August 2026.