The Pipera flyover in the North of the Romanian capital Bucharest was opened on Monday (April 30 ), in time for the higher expected traffic after the official holiday May 1 and just before the local elections, and one year and a half after construction work started. The flyover, which was initially supposed to be finalized last year, has a length of 500 meters and including the wider Pipera Street, is 1.5 kilometres long.

The Municipality invested some EUR 33 million in the flyover and expects 48,000 cars to pass on it every day, exiting Soseaua Pipera and going back to the city, freeing the Barbu Vacarescu boulevard and Calea Floreasca from traffic jams. The flyover will provide access from the A3 highway to the city. Soseaua Pipera currently has six lanes, from the previous two.

The area is one of Bucharest's office hubs, which hosts the headquarters of companies such as Renault Techno­logie Roumanie, Oracle, DHL, Volksbank, RBS, Huawei. The future Raiffeisen Bank headquarters, in the 36-floored Sky Tower project, will soon be adjoining the flyover. A shopping mall is also in cards there, Promenada mall, which should be ready in 2013.

On this map below, see where the flyover is located.

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(photo source: Jurnalul National webcam)

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