Second Phase of Construction of Corridor 5C Begins in RS – Doboj Bypass Route to be Six Kilometers Long, Works to be Completed in Three Years

In the Rudanka settlement near Doboj, the beginning of the works on the second section of the highway on Corridor 5C in the territory of Republika Srpska has been made official.

The event at the Kostajnica Interchange was attended by the prime minister of Republika Srpska, Radovan Viskovic, the minister of transport and communications of RS, Nedeljko Coric, the chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zoran Tegetlija, and the minister of communications and transport at the Council of Ministers, Vojin Mitrovic, writes RTRS.

Also present were representatives of the EU Delegation to BiH and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the director of Autoputevi Srpske, Dusan Topic, and the mayor of Doboj, Boris Jerinic.

Topic stated that, on Friday, November 26, in Doboj, the second phase of the construction of Corridor 5C through Republika Srpska began and that the works in the third phase would begin in mid-2022.

The EBRD head for BiH, Manuela Naessl, said that the beginning of the works on the second section of Corridor 5C through Republika Srpska and the corridor itself were indicators of progress.

Jerinic stated that the local community would become a hub of highways upon the completion of the construction of Corridor 5C, which is a development potential for this city, which is a traffic hub of Republika Srpska and BiH.

The second section of the highway on Corridor 5C on the route from Kostajnica to Putnikovo Brdo, known as the Doboj Interchange, is six kilometers long.

The deadline period for the completion of works is three years.

This is a very demanding section, on which the construction of two tunnels around two kilometers long, Putnikovo Brdo 1 and Putnikovo Brdo 2, a bridge on the Bosna river of around 330 meters and a viaduct of around 290 meters is planned.

The construction of nine supporting walls with a total length of 2,200 meters is also planned.

The contractor is Integral Inzenjering Laktasi, and the works are supervised by IRD Engineering from Rome.

The project is financed with the proceeds from a loan of the EBRD in the amount of EUR 150 million and co-financed with the grant of the European Commission through the Western Balkans Investment Fund in the amount of EUR 38,768,800.

All the highway sections in RS and BiH that are either built or are under construction can be seen on our info map.

Autoputevi RS

Integral inženjering

EBRD

City of Doboj

Government of RS

IRD Engineering

Boris Jerinić

Manuela Naessl

Dušan Topić

Corridor 5C

Corridor VC

Rudanka

Putnikovo brdo 1

Putnikovo brdo 2

Corridor 5C in RS