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Romania TRANSPORTATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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Figure 5.
Transportation System, 1982
Railroads
The basic structure of the national railroad network
had been
completed by the outbreak of World War II, when the total
system
length was 9,900 kilometers. In 1986 the network had a
combined
length of 11,221 kilometers, including 10,755 kilometers
of 1,435-
meter standard-gauge, 421 kilometers of narrow-gauge, and
45
kilometers of broad-gauge track; about 3,060 kilometers of
route
had been double-tracked; and 3,328 kilometers of track had
been
electrified--roughly 30 percent of the system
(see
fig. 5). The
Thirteenth Party Congress of the PCR called for diverting
freight
from the highway system onto the railroads and increasing
the
volume of rail transport by 10 to 13 percent during the
1986-90
period. In 1984 the railroads carried 289.3 million metric
tons, as
compared with 417.7 million metric tons transported by the
highways. Measured in ton-kilometers, however, railroads
hauled
more than ten times as much freight as the highways (75.2
billion
and 7.3 billion metric ton-kilometers respectively).
Two important railroad construction projects completed
in the
1980s were the Vīlcele-Rīmnicu Vīlcea line, which
connected the
Pitesti-Curtea de Arges mainline with the Piatra Olt-Podul
Olt
mainline and shortened the distance to Transylvania by 100
kilometers, and the Borcea-Cernavoda line (part of the
North--
South Trans-European System), which tripled the traffic
capacity of
the Bucharest-Dobruja-Constanta route. These projects
required
building some of the longest bridges, viaducts, and
tunnels in the
country. Construction of the Bucharest subway system was
another
major investment in rail transportation during the 1980s.
Data as of July 1989
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