One of the most ambitious road projects in Montenegro — the Budva bypass road on the section Markovići – Lastva Grbaljska — is expected to be completed within four years after construction begins. As the director of the state-owned company Monteput Milan Ljaljić said, the project is exceptionally complex: more than 70% of the route will pass through tunnels and bridges.
“This is an extremely complex engineering project, because due to the mountainous terrain above Budva, more than 70% of the route consists of tunnels and bridge structures,” Ljaljić said on the program Link on RTCG television.
According to him, the importance of this project for the south of the country is no less than that of the key section of the Bar – Boljare motorway.
“If the motorway strengthened connections between the northern regions, the bypass will solve one of the most acute problems of the coast — constant summer traffic jams,” the director of Monteput emphasized.
The first phase of the coastal expressway
The section Markovići – Lastva Grbaljska, about 8 kilometers long, will become the first stage of construction of the expressway along the Montenegrin coast — the future Adriatic-Ionian corridor, which will connect Montenegro with Croatia near Igalo.
According to Monteput’s technical documentation, the project includes:
- construction of four bridges with a total length of 1.4 km,
- and two twin-bore tunnels, with a length of more than 4.3 km.