Pipera
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Pipera is a district of Voluntari city, situated in the north part of Bucharest
, Romania
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Until 1995, it was an ordinary village. After that, an "el dorado" of land transactions began. Plots of land that were 1 USD/m² reached in 2005 the amount of 250 USD/m². In this time, more than 1400 houses were built here, transforming Pipera in one of the most expensive residential areas.
And because the inhabitants needed places to shop or to spend their free time, a shopping park was built also. So what initially started as a Carrefour and Bricostore, quickly developed into a Metro, a Selgross Cash & Carry, an IKEA and most importantly Baneasa Shopping City.
Pipera could easily organize itself as a city, due to the important number of population, the police station, the church, shopping places and a large number of offices for the big companies. The only one missing would be the City Hall.
Unfortunately its massive increase isn't very good for the transportation. It seems that there is a number of cars which exceeds the limit of comfort in traveling from Pipera to the city and back. Some complain that they make even 1 hour and a half, trying to exit/enter Pipera. For this, the City Hall of Voluntari has started building a bridge on one of the two roads connecting it to the city. The works started in the first part of 2007 and don't seem to end very soon. For that they blocked one main road connecting the city to this suburb and the traffic got even worse.
The district is served by Pipera metro station
, the northern terminus of Bucharest Metro
Line 2.
The Pipera industrial center is on the site of a former airport (Aeroportul Pipera) from the interwar period.
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
, Romania
Romania
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Until 1995, it was an ordinary village. After that, an "el dorado" of land transactions began. Plots of land that were 1 USD/m² reached in 2005 the amount of 250 USD/m². In this time, more than 1400 houses were built here, transforming Pipera in one of the most expensive residential areas.
And because the inhabitants needed places to shop or to spend their free time, a shopping park was built also. So what initially started as a Carrefour and Bricostore, quickly developed into a Metro, a Selgross Cash & Carry, an IKEA and most importantly Baneasa Shopping City.
Pipera could easily organize itself as a city, due to the important number of population, the police station, the church, shopping places and a large number of offices for the big companies. The only one missing would be the City Hall.
Unfortunately its massive increase isn't very good for the transportation. It seems that there is a number of cars which exceeds the limit of comfort in traveling from Pipera to the city and back. Some complain that they make even 1 hour and a half, trying to exit/enter Pipera. For this, the City Hall of Voluntari has started building a bridge on one of the two roads connecting it to the city. The works started in the first part of 2007 and don't seem to end very soon. For that they blocked one main road connecting the city to this suburb and the traffic got even worse.
The district is served by Pipera metro station
Pipera metro station
Pipera is a metro station in Bucharest, located in the Pipera district. Opened in October 1987, it is the northern terminus of Line M2....
, the northern terminus of Bucharest Metro
Bucharest Metro
The Bucharest Metro is an underground urban railway network that serves the capital of Romania, Bucharest. The network is run by Metrorex. It is one of the most accessed systems of the Bucharest public transport network with a ridership of 177.23 million passengers in 2010...
Line 2.
The Pipera industrial center is on the site of a former airport (Aeroportul Pipera) from the interwar period.