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has had a

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since July 13, 2022, when the first section of the Bar-Boljare motorway was inaugurated. On Montenegrin motorways, the speed-limit is .

Belgrade–Bar Motorway

The Belgrade–Bar motorway, also known in Serbian and Montenegrin as Аутопут Београд–Бар (''Autoput Beograd–Bar'') will measure and be part of the

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(E763). Construction has already begun in Serbia as the A2 motorway with a length of , as well as in Montenegro (Smokovac–Mateševo). The whole motorway in Montenegro from Bar to the border with Serbia in Boljare will be . It is a challenging project, which has been divided into five component parts (''dionica''). It will have a total of 42 tunnels and 92 bridges. The first part of construction is financed as

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project and the contractor was the Chinese company CRBC. The Smokovac–

Mateševo Mateševo ( cnr-Cyrl, Матешево) is a village in northern Montenegro, within Kolašin Municipality Kolašin Municipality is one of the municipalities of Montenegro. Located in Northern Montenegro, municipality is part and unofficial centre ...

section of motorway cost approximately €1 billion. The motorway is subjected to a toll payment like in other countries of the former Yugoslavia. For the currently open section - - the toll for passenger vehicles is 3.50 euros. At the beginning of 2022, the Ministry of Capital Investments announced the development of a conceptual project for the second section, from Mateševo to Andrijevica, whose deadline for development is the end of the year. The preliminary estimated value of the construction of this of long section is €552.5 million. The Minister of Capital Investments, Ervin Ibrahimović, announced in an interview on January 8, 2023 that the next section of the highway to be built will be Mateševo– Andrijevica, with the selection of the contractor and supervision in 2025.

Adriatic–Ionian Motorway

The planned Adriatic–Ionian motorway at around long should link both Montenegro with

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

in the west and in the east its capital Podgorica with

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. From there it may continue through Albania and further reach

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. A part of the Podgorica's bypass, around in length, may be shared with the Bar–Boljare motorway.

References

External links

* http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/planeta.300.html:584194-Ministarstvo-U-2016-godini-intenzivna-gradnja-autoputa-u-Crnoj-Gori * http://www.vijesti.me/tag/autoput-bar-boljare-24193 {{Motorways in Europe Controlled-access highways by country Roads in Montenegro