The road bridge over the Prut at Ungheni has reached 56% physical completion, CNAIR says. Fifty workers and 33 machines are on site, and the Romanian road company gives December 2027 as the contractual completion deadline.
Romania today opened 47 new kilometres on the A7 motorway between Adjud and Bacău — the fourth-longest single-day motorway opening in the country's history. From Bacău to the Sculeni border crossing, 175 kilometres remain on ordinary roads. Pașcani, where A7 was supposed to reach under the NRRP, is estimated only for the summer of 2027.
The Bucharest Court of Appeal suspended on August 5 the contract for the DN24–Ungheni Border section of the A8 motorway. Construction cannot begin until the disputes are resolved, with a hearing set for September 30. The approximately 5-km segment in the Republic of Moldova — from the bridge to the Ungheni bypass — is caught in the same ruling.
All 10,000 municipal bonds issued by Ungheni — at 1,000 lei each — were fully subscribed within days of the public offering opening on August 10. On August 26, a working group of municipal councilors from all factions selected 5 streets — 2.5 kilometers, 23,000 square meters — and launched the procurement: the 4 lots, with a total estimated value of 9.61 million lei excluding VAT, are now listed on MTender. The city hall's announcement names the streets, and the procurement documents on MTender also show the estimated cost per lot.
The National Road Administration has put out to tender the feasibility study for Moldova's first motorway — 125 kilometres from the Ungheni interchange to the village of Budești, near Chișinău. Estimated value: 87,880,953 lei, excluding VAT. The chosen route follows the M5 road, not R1 through Pârlița and Cornești. The study must be delivered by 30 September 2027.
On Ștefan cel Mare street in Ungheni, the busy stretch between the former biochemical plant and Podurilor street is getting a pavement — the first on this section, according to City Hall: about 800 metres long, 2 metres wide. The work, done by the municipal company «Servicii Comunale Ungheni», has reached its final stretch and should be ready for the city's festival at the end of August; the road markings and the shaping of the shoulder still remain. The pavement is one item on a list of roads the city is paying for in 2026 with money borrowed through municipal bonds.
The Sculeni commune hall announced on 23 July the start of works to modernise Burebista Street, through a government programme for repairing local roads, “Europe is Near”. The project, approved by the council in May 2025 after consultations with residents, was put out to a tender worth over 4 million lei, to which five firms applied. After a challenge upheld in full by the disputes authority and a re-evaluation of the offers, the contract was awarded to Vicoliv Grup, which had submitted the lowest price. This is a different Burebista Street from the one refurbished in Ungheni.
The Cornești Town Hall announced on 23 July that it had finished „white-variant” repairs on three streets — 2 Decembrie, Stejarului lane and Stejarului street — some 960 metres in all. The „white variant” means compacted gravel, not asphalt: a cheaper, faster solution, but a temporary one — so temporary that, in its own procurement, the town hall cut the works' warranty from 36 to 12 months. The money comes from state transfers for local roads, and the tender, estimated at about 749,000 lei, does not yet have a winner recorded in the public data.
Parliament voted on Tuesday the programme of the Cabinet led by Vasile Tofan, and on Wednesday the Government took the oath. In the document's 147 pages, Ungheni district appears five times — the motorway, the railway to Iași, the bridge over the Prut, the link to Chișinău and the Berești logistics hub — all of them on the transport axis — three of them with a 2029 horizon — and with a cautious verb: “first works advanced”, not completed. The free economic zone, which holds almost one in six salaried jobs in the district, is not mentioned even once.
