The DJ200B road starts from DN1 at Săftica, intersects with DJ101 at Balotești and leads south to Tunari, Voluntari and Bucharest (Pipera).

The name of the village and the present-day commune comes from a boyar, Balotă or Bolotă, who owned the local lands.

[2] The Saint Nicholas, Theodor and Stylianos Church from the village of Balotești was built in 1763 by the Greek boyar Zamfirache and his wife Elena.

In the commune there was a mixed school, a steam threshing machine and 5 Orthodox churches (one for each Cătun).

[6] On 31 March 1995, TAROM Flight 371, operated by an Airbus A310, crashed near Balotești, killing all 60 people on board.

[6] Stadionul Central, opened in 2010, is a multi-use stadium in the commune; it is used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of CS Balotești.

[7] The commune is also the location of the thermal water park "Therme București", the largest of its kind in Europe.