Four lanes of roadway, one railway track and a combined bicycle path/pedestrian walkway (the designed second walkway was not completed: it runs only from the Bulgarian river bank to the island under the bridge)[1]
Crosses
Danube
Locale
Between Calafat, Romania and Vidin, Bulgaria, at river kilometer 796[1]
Official name
New Europe Bridge[nb 1]
Website
vidincalafatbridge.bg/en
Characteristics
Design
Extradosed bridge
Total length
1,971 m (6,467 ft)
Width
31.35 m (102.9 ft)
Longest span
180 m (590 ft)
History
Designer
Fernández Casado
Constructed by
FCC Construccion
Opened
14 June 2013[4]
Statistics
Daily traffic
2,590 vehicles/day[5]
Toll
0–37 euro
Location
The New Europe Bridge, also known as Danube Bridge 2 (Bulgarian: Мост Нова Европа/Дунав мост 2, romanized: Most Nova Evropa/Dunav most 2; Romanian: Podul Noua Europă) is a road and rail bridge between the cities of Vidin, Bulgaria, and Calafat, Romania. It is the second bridge on the shared section of the Danube between the two countries. It is an extradosed bridge and was built by the Spanish company Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, at the cost of €226 million. It was officially opened with a ceremony held on 14 June 2013.[6] The first vehicles were allowed to cross the bridge after midnight, on 15 June 2013.
It was previously known as Danube Bridge 2 (Bulgarian: Дунав мост 2, romanized: Dunav most 2; Romanian: Podul 2 peste Dunăre) and informally called the Vidin–Calafat Bridge or Calafat–Vidin Bridge (Bulgarian: Мост Видин–Калафат, romanized: Most Vidin–Kalafat; Romanian: Podul Calafat–Vidin). The latter is the most common name it receives in Romania.
^ ab"Construction of ... Bridge ... at Vidin-Calafat" (PDF). ISPA. 15 December 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2007.
^Commissioner Hahn hails opening of ‘New Europe Bridge’ as a potent symbol of European Cooperation
^Bulgaria-Romania New Danube Bridge Named 'New Europe' Novinite/Sofia News Agency, 15 June 2013
^"One-mile-long bridge across Danube due to open", BBC News, June 14, 2013
^"Traffic statistics (in Bulgarian)". Vidin-Calafat Bridge JSC. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
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