New Europe Bridge

New Europe Bridge
Coordinates	44°00′08″N 22°56′54″E / 44.0021554°N 22.9482770°E / 44.0021554; 22.9482770
Carries	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.

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