Downtown Subotica closed to heavy freight traffic - Permanent relocation requires construction of new road

(Subotica)

Relocation of heavy freight traffic from downtown Subotica started with the regulation of traffic regime in certain streets in that city, representatives of the Subotica City Development Directorate announced Wednesday (28 November 2012).

As Directorate Director Snezana Pejcic explained at a press conference, there are now several new traffic signs directing freight traffic in the opposite direction to the previous one.

The decision to relocate freight traffic was made on the basis of conclusions and solutions from a traffic study designed by the Belgrade Faculty of Transportation back in 2007.

According to Nebojsa Janjic, assistant to the mayor of Subotica in charge of infrastructure, the protected city core is closed to heavy freight traffic to increase the safety of all road users.

Janjic reminded that the Subotica Urban Planning Institute had started working on a plan for building a new road 1.5 kilometer long. Once built, it will allow permanent relocation of freight traffic gravitating from the Horgos-Belgrade highway to Djordja Natosevica Street via the city center.

Janjic expects aforementioned plan to be adopted at a session of the City Assembly in early 2013 and hopes that the construction of this road will start in early 2014.