Motorway destroys Bucharest's heritage

A motorway roughly twelve kilometres in length is to cut through Bucharest by 2012 to allow drivers to cross from the north to the south of the city in less than 20 minutes. Numerous historical buildings will be torn down to make way for the project. The daily Adevărul complains that yet another piece of the city's history will disappear: "Bucharest has had bad luck as a city. Ceauşescu had entire districts torn down to make way for his monstrosities. ... Our democratic city councillors work in the same style but resort to all sorts of deceitful legislative tricks which are little understood by the average citizen. The propensity to destruction, the brainless mutilation of cities 'in the name of progress' is cultivated almost to an art by Romanians. In sublime heedlessness we destroy not only old walls, but also our very history and traditions, burying forever the knowledge of who our forefathers were and how they lived."

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