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The new highway A1

 

On the River-Zagreb-gorican and Zagabreb-Rijeka-Split - FROM JUNE 2004

ZAGREB - In these days in Croatia 139 kilometers of new freeways will be opened to the traffic that are cost 870 to you million euro. They have been completes various features to you of the freeways that will connect Zagreb with Rijeka and Split, with River and the frontier Hungarian. "What we have promised to the citizens, we are realizing it", has said premier the Ivica Racan, than two years ago, when the government has given to the way to the "plan freeways", it has intentional to personally guide the governmental Commission for the accelerated construction of the highway net. The modernization of infrastructures has been one of objects to you main of the program of government, and the plan, although the costs can seem too much elevate you for a country of 4,4 million inhabitants and a Pil of 22,5 billions of dollars, have met, second the surveys, a widest consent between the population. According to the political commentators, these initiatives make however part of the preelectoral campaign for the scrutinies previewed for the next spring, but that they could be it anticipates you to the autumn of this year. TheZagabria-Spalato freeway is the greatest investment of the Croatia from independence in 1991. The idea was still launch from then the Franjo president You|man that in 1993, still in full war, it inaugurated the jobs of a tunnel along nearly six kilometers under the Velebit, when from the other part of the mountain the territory was found under the control of the Serbian secessionisti. The true construction of the freeway, but, is begun after 2000. The final cost of the 320 kilometers of Zagabria-Spalato freeway, that it would have to be completed in 2005, will be of 1,7 billions of euro, figure that contributes to the increment of the Croatian foreign debt, grown of the 40 for hundreds in a year and that currently it piles to 17 billions of dollars, nearly the 70 for hundreds of the Pil. To difference of the Shovelled freeway for, that one that connects River, via Zagreba, to the frontier Hungarian, nearly is completed. They have been opened to the traffic 30 new kilometers, while last the two short ones drawn would have to be complete to you in 2004. For River and the Istria the new freeway would have to make to increase the quantity of the tourists from the center-east Europe, would have to throw again the Rijeka's port that in last the ten years, because of the war and of insufficient infrastructures, has lost many customers who have preferred Trieste and Capodistria.