BiH: Corridor Vc will be expanded further

The A1-highway is a projected motorway across Bosnia-Herzegovina of which only short parts have already been completed. In future the motorway Zenica – Sarajevo – Mostar will connect the northern border of Bosnia-Herzegovina with the Adriatic coast and will be part of the Pan-European Corridor Vc. This will lead from Budapest to southern Dalmatia. In the north and in the south the A1 will be directly connected to the Croatian motorway network (A5 and A10). After completion the whole motorway network will comprise 397km.

Construction has been scheduled to take till 2017. The reason for this long period is the country’s difficult topography. The numbers of tunnels and bridges will be exceptionally high. The longest of the 13 tunnels of the project will be the Prenj tunnel, measuring 6,5 km. Milorad Dodik, Prime Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina, considers the extension of the motorway network an important stimulus for the economic development. The construction of the motorway shall create some 5.000 jobs. The Government of the Republika Srpska recently announced that later on 2.500 people would be employed for maintaining the new motorway.