Croatian Bridges

[SinCity]

On the 21st November 1991, one of Croatia's most important bridges, the "Maslenica Bridge" near the port city of Zadar was repeatedly bombed by Serbian forces which sent it crashing into the waters of the Novsko Gulf to which the former bridge crossed for decades. The bridge was completely whipped out and today most of it still sits at the bottom of the sea.

Years later the steel bridge was replaced by a new concrete bridge slightly further up from the old bridge. In the interim, a pontoon bridge was used for short term measure.

Last year works resumed on a replacement bridge on the exact location of the old one. The reason for this was that the new concrete bridge now forms part of the Zagreb - Split motorway and in order to cater to the needs of local traffic, the old "Maslenica Bridge" needed to be rebuilt.

Here are some images of the "New-Old Maslenica Bridge" nearing completion and images of the "New Maslenica Motorway Bridge" and also ones of the former bridge.

Article from Croatian newspaper ....
http://www.vecernji-list.hr/newsroom...04839/index.do

Photo of original Maslenica Bridge, as it stood in 1990, one year before the war that destroyed it ....



Photo of the New Maslenica Bridge, built of concrete and completed in 1995, replacing a temporary pontoon bridge devised for the interim .....

Length: 378 metres
Height: 90 metres



Photo of the new-old Maslenica Bridge under construction ....

Length: 315 metres
Height: 55 metres



Destroyed bridge ....

[SkylineTurbo]

It's bad how strife ruins such nice engineering feats, very bad. Nice pictures anyway SinCity!

[long foot]

Some viaducts and bridges on new Croatian motorways Zagreb-Rijeka and Zagreb-Split:

Viaduct Draga


Viaduct Bajer


Viaduct Zečeve Drage


Viaduct Drežnik


Viaduct Dobra


Dobra Bridge


Karlovac-Rijeka motorway


Zagreb-Varaždin motorway


Krka bridge:



Maslenica bridge:

[SkylineTurbo]

I like the new motorways in Croatia.

[Nephasto]

long foot, how is the construction of the Zagreb-Split motorway going?
When is it suposed to open(the entire motorway)?
What about the Zagreb-Rijeka?

In 2003 i have gone from Maribor(Slovenia) to Zagreb, and then to Rijeka, but only used short sections of motorway, because most of it wasn't built yet.
Hope you build that fast!

Oh, and a Split-Dubrovnik motorway would be great too! That road is really twisted!
But dubrovnik is well worth the journey!

[AstroBoy]

Originally Posted by Nephasto

long foot, how is the construction of the Zagreb-Split motorway going?
When is it suposed to open(the entire motorway)?
What about the Zagreb-Rijeka?

In 2003 i have gone from Maribor(Slovenia) to Zagreb, and then to Rijeka, but only used short sections of motorway, because most of it wasn't built yet.
Hope you build that fast!

Oh, and a Split-Dubrovnik motorway would be great too! That road is really twisted!
But dubrovnik is well worth the journey!

Hello Nephasto,

The Zagreb - Split motorway is now finished. So is the Zagreb - Rijeka motorway.

This year they will begin Split to Ploce section of the Split - Dubrovnik motorway. This segment will cover half the distance to Dubrovnik and is expected to be completed before 2008.

Most of Croatia's motorways are now complete with some work on linking in between the Zagreb - Rijeka and Zagreb - Split motorways, which means a Rijeka to Split motorway.

[AstroBoy]

Here is a map Nephasto showing the Croatian motorway network.

Green was existing motorways
Red is recently completed motorways
Blue is under planning or under construction

[Nephasto]

Great news to hear that the Zagred-Split motorway is already built!

As for the map, i must say tht not all those green lines are really motorways... maybe more then regular roads, but not motorways.
The ones i'm talking about are those west of Vrbovsko (near Rijeka).
I've traveled on those green lines west of Rijeka and they are good roads and may even have blue(i think) coloured signaling (like motorways), but are just good 2 lanes roads. Maybe they will be upgraded to motorways in the future.
As for what really is a motorway, I trust in www.viamichelin.com. And also in my personal experience in this case.

Well, as for the other ones, they are motorways, and i must say that croatian has a quite good network of motorways!

How will the motorway Split-Dubrovnik cross Bosnia after Ploce? Is it going to be built in bosnian territory, or is there going to be a bridge to the Peljesac peninsula or to be all in croatia, as i've heard? This would be cool!

PS: Are you croatian AstroBoy? If so, may i ask were from?

Greeting from a croatia's fan!

[long foot]

Originally Posted by Nephasto

Great news to hear that the Zagred-Split motorway is already built!

As for the map, i must say tht not all those green lines are really motorways... maybe more then regular roads, but not motorways.
The ones i'm talking about are those west of Vrbovsko (near Rijeka).
I've traveled on those green lines west of Rijeka and they are good roads and may even have blue(i think) coloured signaling (like motorways), but are just good 2 lanes roads. Maybe they will be upgraded to motorways in the future.
As for what really is a motorway, I trust in www.viamichelin.com. And also in my personal experience in this case.

Well, as for the other ones, they are motorways, and i must say that croatian has a quite good network of motorways!

How will the motorway Split-Dubrovnik cross Bosnia after Ploce? Is it going to be built in bosnian territory, or is there going to be a bridge to the Peljesac peninsula or to be all in croatia, as i've heard? This would be cool!

PS: Are you croatian AstroBoy? If so, may i ask were from?

Greeting from a croatia's fan!

You are right, Nephasto, there are some sections between Rijeka and Vrbovsko (some 30 km) which are not real motorways, but some kind of fast roads. Rest of this network on the map are real motorways. But they are going to rebuild these sections in couple of years, so it will be full motorway.

Motorway Split-Dubrovnik will cross Bosnian border near towm Neum, but it will have one more direction to Pelješac peninsula. I am not sure when construction of this bridge will start, I guess this or next year. However, construction of motorway Split-Dubrovnik will start in 2005.

It is unbelieveble, but we have one of the best motorways network in Europe (per capita). They costed a lot of money, but it was nesesery because our country has a strange form. We have many tourists from western and central Europe and these motorways were "sine qua non".

[SkylineTurbo]

I thought Pula was already connected by a motorway.

[long foot]

^Not yet, but it will be very soon. That highway is U/C.

[SinCity]

There is one new motorway that is missing and they have started work on this. Its the Zagreb - Sisak motorway. Sisak is a city that lies south of Zagreb and is an important industrial city.

The Domovinski Bridge shown on the previous page will form part of this new motorway that starts this year.

[SinCity]

Here'a a really good picture of the "Dubrovnik Bridge" to which everyone was whinging about the other pics posted here LOL

This bridge will form part of the Split - Dubrovnik motorway. The construction of the bridge has delayed travel time for motorists by about 45 minutes. Previously travel involved driving the whole perimetre of the bay on the western approaches to the city of Dubrovnik ...

[Nephasto]

Great photo!!
That is a beautifull bridge!

[AstroBoy]

Photos of Dubrovnik's new bridge:

[dadekhr]

Maslenica bridge:

[SinCity]

Welcome dadekhr to the fourm. I sent you a private message.

Puno Pozdrava
SinCity

[Culchie]

Hi Folks,

Any further updates on proposed Peljesac/Komarna bridge?

Is there any website where I can look at planning model etc....

Regards

Culchie

[JohnnyMass]

beautiful brigdes in an amazing country!!! way to go Croatia!!!

[SinCity]

The Maslenica bridge (1961) which once lay north of the city of Zadar and destroyed completely in the last war (1991) has now been completely rebuilt and will open this weekend for traffic

It was built to original design with the except of some more modern engineering methods.

Length: 315 metres
Height: 55 metres
Width: 10.5 metres
Weight: 1400 tonnes
Build: Single span steel bridge
Cost: 50 million HR Kunas

One interesting thing was that the Maslenica bridge was delayed by over 6 months, mainly by over 100 days of the infamous "Bura" winds which hound coastal Croatian with freezing winds that exceed speeds of over 200 km/h



News in Croatian ....

http://www.vecernji-list.hr/newsroom...94924/index.do