SPLIT - Croatia's jewel on the Mediterranean

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Let's take look at Split's road network.

Here is the map:


Orange is the A1 motorway, and yellow are the main expressways.

City map:


In the city, we have two main six lane avenues, that cross the city in the west-east direction.

Ulica Domovinskog rata (on the north side):




Poljička avenue (on the south side):

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There are numerous "medium" 2+2 lane roads crossing the city.
Here is some of them.

Dubrovačka street:


Vukovarska street:


Ulica Hrvatske mornarice (Croatian Navy street):


Kaštelanska street:

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We also have a fully grade-separated bypass road. It starts on the north side, connecting on a expressway from Trogir, near Solin (with 3+3 lanes), continues by the city, with 2+2+2+2 lanes, with the elevated mid-section, and ends near the Lovrinac cemetery, continuing towards Stobreč, as a 2+2 expressway.

Some images:








Large roundabout at Bilice is a main junction between the bypass road and the two expressways.. one leading towards the A1 motorway, and the other, as the D8 expressway, towards Trogir:

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Continuting to the west, we are crossing the Jadro river in Solin:


And driving through Kaštela, towards the 20km distant Trogir:




Trogir bypass:


On the other end, drving east from Split, we are going towards Stobreč:

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If we choose to go north, towards Dugopolje industrial zone and the A1 motorway, we take this attractive road (that is just being widened to 2+3 lanes), that has many tunnels and viaducts, providing excellent views of the city:








Dugopolje:


Interchange between Dugopolje zone, A1 toll station, and the continuation od the D1 road:

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Some places out of the city center.
Split is the most dense populated city in Croatia with average 3,500 people/m^2 (like Berlin) although some areas reach more than 15,000 ppl/m^2.
Average density is this small because city borders include uninhabited areas.

















these remind me on Montreals' buildings built for Olympics

[Vecais Sakarnis]

Incredibly great city, didn't have a clue that Split is so beautiful!

But - what?? Is it really Tele2 logo there on the basketball field? Are they operating even in Croatia?

[Delmat]

Originally Posted by Vecais Sakarnis

Incredibly great city, didn't have a clue that Split is so beautiful!

But - what?? Is it really Tele2 logo there on the basketball field? Are they operating even in Croatia?

Yes, they operate here almost 5 years already and are cheaper than national mobile networks.

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Split has one suburban rail line. It runs from Split, through Solin, to Kaštel Stari.
There are plans to build a branch that would cover the airport and run all the way to Trogir, on the west side of the bay.

The city part of the line runs through two tunnels. The longer one was built in 1979. and has one underground station, that was never completely finished.
There are plans to open it in the near future, as well as building a second carriageway and a new electrical power system.

Map of the city railroad:


Red are the tunnels, and green is the station.

Digging the tunnel, and building the station:




The works are nearing completion:

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North tunnel entrance:


Inside:


The station:


South tunnel entrance, near the main rail terminal, in the city port:

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The rail terminal in Split is not up to standards, unfortunately. It's very old, rather small, and from the time when the city wasn't so important and big.

This is the part with the ticket counters:


There are two plans to make a new rail/bus station.
One considers them to move to Kopilica station on the north:


Oposing that idea, there is a plan to make a new rail/bus terminal on the same location as today:


That would include some new buildings, a refurbished platform and a new road system that could feed all that traffic to and back from the rest of the city. That is the main problem, beacuse the same roads are also used by the ferry port, that hanedls 4 million passengers every year and is pretty congested.

[Inferious]

hey great info. looks like a great city

[christos-greece]

Split looks indeed a great, very nice town

[Ballota]

Thanx guys.

Stay tuned...

[zoltan gera]

Ballota I forgive you cuz you stole few my photos only for one reason,
your report is '' get a f*** out of here'' - amazing

[Ballota]

Hahaha! Thanx!

Too bad I can't find enough time to post here on a daily bases...

[Ballota]

Let's see some of the shopping malls...

Joker:

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Mercator:


Emmezeta:


City Center One (u/c):


There are many more of these, but they all look the same anyway...

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I personaly much more like to go shopping in the city center.
The whole old city core is like a big shopping mall.. with stores and caffes.

The main shopping street is Marmontova:








Here you can see all the important streets with stores and shops:


Marmontova is the largest one.. to the west, connecting the theater square with the Riva waterfront.

[MHN]

very nice and interesting shopping area.
like in the big cities around the world...