The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, stated today that nine highways and expressways are currently being built in Serbia, and soon there will be ten, which, as he pointed out, no country in Europe is working at this moment.
He said at the press conference that the Frushkogorski corridor is being built from Novi Sad to Ruma, then the Ruam-Sabac highway and, in the foreground, the Sabac-Loznica expressway. He added that the road Kuzmin-Sremska Rača, then Požarevac – Veliko Gradište – Golubac, then the fast road along the Danube to Brza Palanka, with branches to Kladovo and Negotin, are also under construction.
As he stated, the Moravian Cordor from Pojat to Čačak is being built, and on December 1, the construction of the Niš-Pločnik road will start, as well as the Požega-Čačak road, as well as Lajkovac-Valjevo, a contract will be signed and immediately works for the bypass around Kragujevac, while the construction of the road Surcin-New Belgrade is in progress.
“I hope that we will soon sign contracts for the Belgrade-Zrenjanin highway, for the northern horizon, which should connect Backi Breg and Sombor with Kikinda and Nakovo, and of course the part of Zrenjanin-Novi Sad, and of course the Vozd Karadjordje highway, which is the connection from Mladenovac and Lazarevac in Arandjelovac, then via Rača to Despotovac and from there to Bor,” specified Vučić.
By the end of the year, he hopes that a contract for the construction of the road Požega – Boljare will be signed. Vučić also announced that he would start designing the expansion on the Belgrade-Novi Sad highway next year.
“We will have to have four plus one lanes on each side of that highway, regardless of the trains, both because of the increase in standards and because of the increase in the number of trucks,” Vucic said.
He also reminded that in January next year, tests will be performed at high speeds of 200 kilometers per hour on the section of the Belgrade-Budapest railway, from Belgrade to Novi Sad, so that trains could be put into commercial operation on that section in February, Kurir reports.
