Transalpina - The highest highway in Romania (at 2,145 m)

Transalpina - the highest and most beautiful highway in Romania
Transalpina (DN 67C) is a road in Parang Mountains, Southern Carpathians. It is the highest road in Romania, having the highest point in Urdele Pass (at 2,145 m). The road connects the cities in Gorj county Novaci and Sebes, Alba county. Being a mountain road is closed during winter.
Transalpina runs through four counties - Gorj, Valcea, Sibiu, Alba - crossing the Parang Mountains south to north, the highest altitude having it on a stretch of about 20 km, Valcea County, which is presented as a "highway ridge ", the passing away of small peaks Dengheru (2,084 m), doll (2,136 m), Urdele (2,228 m), Iezer (2,157 m) and Muntinu (2,062 m).
The beginnings of this road are unclear. Some sources claim it was first built by the Roman legions during the Dacian wars, which is why the maps of history is passed as the "fourth corridor strategically novel" There is a local legend that says that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, every family has participated in construction of a portion of this road, depending on its physical and financial possibilities.
In 2008, in recent months the mandate of the then Minister of Transport Ludovic Orban, the National Company of Motorways and National Roads in Romania (CNADNR) decided to auction the rehabilitation DN 67C. The work started in earnest in 2009, the investment bid amounting to 1.3 billion lei.
At the start of the upgrading, in 2009, the road was paved only from Novaci to Ranca (1,600 m) and one from Sebes only to Lake Oaşa. The road was once part of the movement in 2010. The work stopped in 2013, with Romstrade declared insolvent company, the entrepreneur contracted CNADNR.
Thus, the route section of alpine (Rânca-Obârşia Lotrului), passing through Step Urdele and Step Muntinu was fully rectified, widened and its bedding layer of binder (missing layers of asphalt wear), but did not completed the takeover drains water from the slopes and installing safety features (fences, reflective, road marking horizontal and vertical). Obârşia section Oaşa Lotrului-dam was rebuilt in part - on a stretch of approx. There are only 4 km embankment, alternating with layers of binder and also with layers of asphalt; the road is crossed by dozens of transverse grooves to collect rainwater, which requires slowing 5-10 km / h; and here entirely lacking safety features. Viaducts on the eastern shore of Lake Oaşa are available on a single tape. On the section Barrage Oaşa-Dobra, alternating with portions of the asphalt binder wear and safety features are present sporadically.
Officially, the road is considered the work site, and do not have snow than on sections Novaci-Ranca, respectively Dobra-dam Oaşa. In winter, the Obârşia Lotrului can be reached only on DN7A Brezoi-Voineasa-Vidra (the only section that is removed snow from CNADNR). The situation is uncertain road completion, depriving both the funds needed to complete the works and environmental permits mandatory for a road which crosses a Natura 2000 site.
As of August 15, 2015 at 7, Transalpina (DN67C) officially opened the road and the stretch of Rânca and Obârşia Lotrului, the legal status of the road continue to be "Men at work", traveled only at living under the site.
National Company of Motorways and National Roads in Romania announced that the Saturday, June 11, 2016, road traffic was reopened on Route 67C, on the road between km 34 + 500 - km 59 + 800, ie Transalpina. Access to this section is allowed only between the hours of 7 to 20 and the maximum speed allowed is only 30 km / hour

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