We drove along the new section of the highway: Much faster to Belgrade, and here's the toll costs

The Milos Veliki highway is now 11 kilometers closer to Zlatibor. Our crew drove along that section on the first day of the opening, assuring itself that the trip from Belgrade to our "golden" mountain was significantly shortened.

We passed the section in about 8 minutes, while earlier the bypass around Cacak meant jams, especially on Sundays, so each trip was prolonged depending on the traffic lights and the number of vehicles waiting at the toll.

Now that was not the case, and it was quite easy for drivers. In addition, the price of the toll remained the same for now, and still amounts to 430 dinars.

The entire section of the highway from Preljina to Pozega will most likely be completed by the end of the year, and certainly in the first quarter of 2023, it was announced earlier.

The section of the highway Milos Veliki from Preljina near Cacak to Pakovrace about 11.5 kilometers long, andwas opened for traffic yesterday, in the presence of Prime Minister Ana Brnabic.

The prime minister, who attended the opening instead of President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic took a bus to drive along the new highway.

With the opening of the section of the highway from Preljina to Pakovrace traffic jams that were created through Cacak, especially during summer vacation season and on weekends, will become a thing of the past, because all transit traffic is redirected to the new bypass.

The section is divided into three smaller ones

It is part of the 30.9-kilometer section of the Preljina-Pozega highway, where the main contractor is the Chinese company CRBC.

The opening of the section to Pakovrac was attended by Minister of Construction Tomislav Momirovic, the directors of the Roads of Serbia and the Corridor of Serbia, Zoran Drobnjak and Aleksandar Antic, as well as the representatives of the contractors.

The deadline for the completion of works that began in May 2019 on the entire section to Pozega is 36 months, and their value is 450 million euros. The Preljina-Pozega section is a continuation of the project for the construction of the Belgrade-South Adriatic highway with a total length of 258 kilometers.

The Preljina-Pozega highway is divided into three smaller sections.

From Preljina to Prijevor, along the river Cemernica and a small part along the Zapadna Morava, in the length of up to 8.27 kilometers.

Then, from Prijevor to Lucani, the route is 15.51 kilometers long, on which there will be 20 bridges with a total length of more than three kilometers, as well as the Laz tunnel 1,750 meters long.

The third sub-section, from Lucani to Pozega, is seven kilometers long and three bridges should be built on it, a tunnel 2,040 meters, a loop in Lucani and a bridge over the river Bjelica.

The highway from Preljina to Pozega is a regional road, because it is a continuation of Corridor 11 towards the border with Montenegro, but it is also part of the future Belgrade-Sarajevo highway, because there are about 60 kilometers to be built from Pozega to the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

At the end of last year, the Chinese construction company Power Construction Corporation of China started works on the bypass around Gornji Milanovac, which will connect this city with the Milos Veliki highway and displace freight traffic from the city center.

According to the contract, the same company will start the construction of the bypass around Uzice and the Kadinjaca tunnel in May this year, and later the bypass around Pozega. It is planned to build a branch to Visegrad in the Serb Republic and Duga Poljana, on the route to Novi Pazar, on the future highway to Montenegro.

(Telegraf Biznis)