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08-08-2011, 05:57 PM
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BELGRADE -- Workers building the new Sava River Bridge in Belgrade near the Ada Ciganlija river island will on Monday connect the river banks of Belgrade and New Belgrade.

President Boris Tadić and Belgrade Mayor Dragan Đilas will be there as the last steel segment of the main span of the bridge is put in place.

The bridge is often described as a major achievement according to urban, traffic, environmental and aesthetic qualities.

First vehicles will pass over the bridge on December 15, when a part of its access roads will be finished, Đilas has announced, adding that the bridge will be completed during 2013.

It will have six lanes, along with two lanes for cyclists and pedestrians, and two metro lanes.

The funds for its construction were raised from loans granted by the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and from "domestic sources", according to reports.

Mayor Đilas has put the cost of the construction to EUR 120mn, excluding the access roads.

The bridge was mentioned in a Discovery Channel documentary dedicated to its construction as an "engineering marvel" and one of the world's largest single-pylon bridges.

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Guapo
08-09-2011, 12:28 AM
It's about time, Belgrade is the most important Balkan capitol.

poiuytrewq0987
08-09-2011, 02:22 PM
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The Ada Bridge "would solve the problem of the region's most complex traffic point", said the Serbian president, and explained this point was - Belgrade.

After the two banks of the river were connected with the steel segment of the main section put in place on Monday, Tadić told a press conference "the moment was a huge one for Serbia, its citizens and the entire region".

“This is a huge construction and economic endeavor and citizens of Serbia should be proud,” the president said.

Tadić said that it was appropriate for Serbia to build bridges that represented engineering and scientific challenges as that was the role and mission of Serbia and its builders.

“When I first came to see this bridge, at the start of its construction, I talked to German and Austrian engineers who told me that we could be proud of the people who build our bridges,” Tadić was quoted as saying.

He stressed that all other bridges on the Sava and Danube rivers had each in its time beat a world record of a sort, the new bridge near Ada being no exception.

Tadić also recommended that the bridge at Ada be named after assassinated Prime Minister and Democratic Party leader Zoran Đinđić, and late Mayor of Belgrade Nenad Bogdanović.

“Somehow I associate this bridge with Nenad and Zoran and I would be happiest if its name was 'Nenad and Zoran's Bridge'. I have put the proposal and we should now ask the citizens what they think about it,” Tadić said.

Tadić said that despite the difficult times, Serbia was nearing the completion of the bridge on the Danube river near Beška, the Belgrade road bypass and Corridor 10 and was beginning the works on the bridge connecting Belgrade's neighborhoods Zemun and Borča and on other infrastructure facilities.

Tadić said that the main routes should be completed in 2013 and that he hoped that works on the highway sections from Pojate to Preljina, from Preljina to Belgrade, and toward Požega, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina would begin at about that time.

He said that all that, "together with the completion of several power plants", this would be "the foundation for Serbia's development until 2020".

The new bridge over the Sava River is expected to be open for traffic in mid-December.

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