Kosovo's first highway to open Wednesday

[KrashNick]

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As of Wednesday morning travelers in Kosovo will be able to use a brand new highway, the first in the country

The first highway, named after the first president of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova, built in Kosovo will be open to traffic from Wednesday morning.
The construction of the highway started in 2010, and was supported by the American-Turkish consortium Bechtel & Enka GP.
The highway starts from the border with Albania in Morin, south of Kosovo, and reaches the border with Serbia in Merdare, north Kosovo.
Even though there are no official data about the costs of this highway, some experts estimate the cost to be over one billion Euro.

[Geni]

Urime ,urime..

[HellLander87]

Nice but it seems constructed with cheap inferior materials.I doubt if it will be passable after 2 years.But then again in kosovo there are not so many cars it may make it to 3.
Good job kosovo.:thumb001:

[La Misse]

Urime :D

[La Misse]

Nice but it seems constructed with cheap inferior materials.I doubt if it will be passable after 2 years.But then again in kosovo there are not so many cars it may make it to 3.
Good job kosovo.:thumb001:

Panta me to kalo logo sto stoma eisai... Mhn mas ta prizeis kai des thn doulia sou. Toulaxiston eki kati kanoun gia to law den tous xreonoun mexrei to lemo me dania stou germanous san thn ellada :lol:

Geia sou twra!

[KrashNick]

Blah Blah Blah...
Good job Kosovo.:thumb001:

Yeah i know :D

[HellLander87]

Panta me to kalo logo sto stoma eisai... Mhn mas ta prizeis kai des thn doulia sou. Toulaxiston eki kati kanoun gia to law den tous xreonoun mexrei to lemo me dania stou germanous san thn ellada :lol:

Geia sou twra!
^^Greek in denial.joking is good for health:)

[La Misse]

^^Greek in denial.joking is good for health:)

Yeah sure.

[alb0zfinest]

Nice but it seems constructed with cheap inferior materials.I doubt if it will be pastsable after 2 years.But then again in kosovo there are not so many cars it may make it to 3.
Good job kosovo.:thumb001:
If it cost around 1 billion euros somehow i doubt its made our of cheap material.

P.S: despite the fact Kosovo is poor a very large percentage of people in Kosovo own a car

[Minesweeper]

Every improvement is good but in the case of Kosovo, is the highway worth 1 billion really necessary? It would be a perfect investment if the country was bigger and if traffic and transportation was dense. Most of the income will be coming from local population and Albanian diaspora on summer and winter holidays... or maybe not?

[Szegedist]

If it cost around 1 billion euros somehow i doubt its made our of cheap material.


How much it "costs" on paper is often different to how much it actually costed in this part of the world.

Usually it goes like "Here is few million to build a road, we put 50% of it in our pocket and use the rest to built it".

[ALSh]

If it cost around 1 billion euros somehow i doubt its made our of cheap material.


U haven't take into account the amount that has ended in the pockets of the politicans. Anyway the highway seems to be build in more quality way than our part.
Nejse urime.

[Arianiti]

Nice but it seems constructed with cheap inferior materials.I doubt if it will be passable after 2 years.But then again in kosovo there are not so many cars it may make it to 3.
Good job kosovo.:thumb001:


It must be the best highway in Europe, including quality-wise. It's simply astonishing.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGyDT6QepCs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gE7ILzFGB8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm2OqQFhKgw

[Drawing-slim]

Congrats. I want to visit Kosova one day.

[Lemon Kush]

I guess this will make the organ trafficking business easier :lol:

[Arianiti]

I guess this will make the organ trafficking business easier :lol:

You are really going on my d.. You do not miss a single topic related to us with your shitty comments. Fuck off!

[alb0zfinest]

How much it "costs" on paper is often different to how much it actually costed in this part of the world.

Usually it goes like "Here is few million to build a road, we put 50% of it in our pocket and use the rest to built it".

Don't worry I didn't take that out of the equation. I'm well aware how corrupt Kosovas politicians are, but even if they took 50% (which I highly doubt because that would mean 500 million) that still leaves 500 million. 500 million is still pretty expensive for a road to be of bad quality.

[BrunetteAnna]

great job...step by step Albania seems to grow as a country!:notworth:

[alb0zfinest]

I guess this will make the organ trafficking business easier :lol:

Even when you try being nice to someone, they still seem to disappoint. Ncncn

[KrashNick]

I guess this will make the organ trafficking business easier :lol:
How did you know that :D ??
We made it to transport gypsies organs , seem like you are informed well :D

PS . Don't be scared you are far away from Kosovo :laugh:

[Ushtari]

Every improvement is good but in the case of Kosovo, is the highway worth 1 billion really necessary? It would be a perfect investment if the country was bigger and if traffic and transportation was dense. Most of the income will be coming from local population and Albanian diaspora on summer and winter holidays... or maybe not?
Good road system is very important for a country to develop. Not only will the export/import increase but the population within the country will be much more free to travel, wich was not that "given" before considering the road conditions.

Also, in a few weeks the building of the new Prishtina - Skopje motorway will start. In my opinion the latter one is much more important because Macedonia is quite important for import/export and the existing road is very "loaded".

Its also worth mentioning that its not build all the way up to Merdar(Kosovo-Serbian border) but only to a village north of Prishtina. This is because the Serbian government has no plans in building their strech from Nis to the border. Therefor its quite unnecessary for the kosovar government to extend the motorway all the way to the border since the money can be used better of somwere els.


Also the picture in the first post dont seem to be from this motorway since it does not have 6lanes(3 on each side) as far as i know.