Exact route of highway to Montenegro determined: Here is where Pozega-Boljare section will go and where interchanges will be

The Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure of Serbia has put up for public inspection the Draft Spatial Plan of the Special-Purpose Area of the Infrastructure Corridor Belgrade-South Adriatic, Pozega-Boljare Section.

The future highway, one of whose sections, from Pozega to Duga Poljana, started being built in 2022, will go down the Moravica Valley, between the slopes of Javor and Golija, through the Pester Plateau to the border with Montenegro.

The planned section of the Pozega-Boljare highway is a continuation of the Milos Veliki highway on the Pozega-Arilje-Ivanica-Sjenica (Duga poljana)-Boljare route.

The highway corridor begins after the Prilipac interchange, which belongs to the Pozega-Kotroman highway section, stretches toward the south down the valley of the river Moravica across plains and low hills, and then, after Ivanjica, enters a mountainous region and goes between the slopes of Javor in the west and Golija in the east and climbs to the Pester Plateau, by which it goes southward to Duga poljana and the Boljare border crossing.

The border of the Spatial Plan is located in parts of the territories of the municipality of Pozega – cadaster municipalities (KO) Gorobilje, Lopas, Milicevo Selo, Pilatovici, Prilipac; Arilje – KO Arilje, Bogojevici, Vigoste-Pogled, Virovo, Grdovici, Dragojevac, Latvica, Mirosaljci, Stupcevici, Tresnjevica, Cerova; Ivanjica – KO Bedina Varos, Bratljevo, Budozelja, Vasiljevici, Grledjica, Dubrava, Ercege, Ivanjica, Komadine, Kosovica, Mana, Medovine, Prilike, Radaljevo, Rovine, Rokci, Svestica, Smiljevac and Sume; and Sjenica – KO Boljare, Brnjica, Budjevo, Vrsjenice, Gosevo, Dolice, Dragojlovice, Drazevice, Dujke, Zitnice, Zajecice, Kamesnica, Kijevci, Krce, Razdaginja, Rasno, Raskovice, Stup, Tuzinje, Ugao, Cetanovice and Stavalj.

The highway corridor mostly goes through unpopulated areas, and in parts it touches the built areas of Arilja and Ivanjica.

The planned highway route is split into eleven sections, with a total length of 106.3 km. A preliminary highway corridor with a length of 86.71 km and a width of 1,000 m is planned, for sections 2-9 and section 11, as is a highway corridor with a length of 19.59 km and an average width of 200 to 300 m for sections 1 and 10.

The corridor ends with an additional zone of the Boljare border crossing, whose technical solution will be defined subsequently, says the plan which was prepared by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Planning of Serbia, the Yugoslav Institute for Urban Planning and Housing and the PE Urban Planning Institute Nis, in cooperation with the company which prepared the preliminary design, China Road and Bridge Corporation, the Belgrade branch.

The investor in the preparation of the spatial plan is the PE Roads of Serbia.

The highway is planned with at least two traffic lanes and one shoulder in each direction, and it is designed for speeds of 100 km/h to 120 km/h.

Said division of the highway route into 11 sections is conditional, says the plan, which also says that sections 1 and 10 will have a total of 21 bridge and three tunnels.

Interchanges

The spatial plan determines the position of the following planned de-leveled intersections (interchanges), namely:

1) “Arilje” at km 150+300, in the function of connecting with the existing IB-grade state road no. 21, the municipal center Arilje and the surrounding settlements and business-industrial zones;

2) “Ivanjica” at km 167+000, in the function of connecting with the existing IB-grade road no. 21, the municipal center Ivanjica and the surrounding settlements and business-industrial zones;

3) “Medjurecje” at km 185+800, in the function of connecting with the existing IIA-grade state road no. 197 and, indirectly through it, with the area of the Nature Park Golija and the existing IB-grade state road no. 30 and farther eastward toward the Ibar Gorge.

4) “Duga Poljana” at km 220+800, in the function of connecting with the existing IB-grade state road no. 29 and, indirectly through it, with the municipal center and wider area of Sjenica, the area of the Special Nature Reserve Uvac and Nova Varos to the west and Tutin and Novi Pazar to the southeast;

5) “Karajukica Bunari” at km 240+000, in the function of connecting with the existing IIA-grade state road no. 197 and the existing IIA-grade state road no. 202 and, indirectly through them, with Sjenica to the northwest and Tutin and Novi Pazar to the east.

Rests and parking lots

In the corridor of the highway, the following features are planned for the users:

– the service center “Arilje” at km 148+600 on both sides;
– the parking lot “Tresnjevica” at km 161+600 on both sides;
– the parking lot “Ivanjica” at km 181+500 on the left-hand side;
– the parking lot “Rokci” at km 187+800 on the right-hand side;
– the parking lot “Brnjica” at km 217+600 on both sides;
– the rest “Boljare” at km 227+600 on both sides in the zone of the “Boljare” border crossing.

The Belgrade-South Adriatic road route, the document reminds, is a leg of the Trans-Europe Main Road (TEM), which, in the territory of the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro, connects the main route of TEM (from Gdansk to Athens and Istanbul) with the Adriatic Sea.

Within the primary road network, this road route should pick up the traffic flows from the existing IB-grade state roads no. 21 (Novi Sad-Valjevo-Uzice-Bijelo Polje) and no. 22 (on the Belgrade-Cacak section), as well as the M-2 road (on the Bijelo Polje-Podgorica-Adriatic Sea section), the plan says.

It is added that this corridor connects Central and Southwest Serbia, and by connecting the Port of Bar with the Port of Belgrade on the Danube, it also connects Podunavlje with the Mediterranean.

The public inspection lasts until July 9.

Take a look at our info-map of the construction of highways and fast roads in Serbia and the region HERE.

B. P.

Ministarstvo građevinarstva, saobraćaja i infrastrukture Republike Srbije

JP Putevi Srbije Beograd

Institut za arhitekturu i urbanizam Srbije Beograd

JUGINUS d.o.o. Beograd

JP Zavod za urbanizam Niš

China Road and Bridge Corporation Serbia ogranak Beograd

Ministry of Construction Transport and Infrastructure

PE Roads of Serbia

Institute for Architecture and Urban Planning of Serbia

Yugoslav Institute for Urban Planning and Housing

PE Urban Planning Institute Nis

China Road and Bridge Corporation Belgrade branch

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Belgrade South Adriatic highway

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