
"I manage to sell some vegetables and chickens to the workers," added the man who did not want to be named, reflecting also that dirt mounds from the construction site stop the river from flooding. Some managed to sell their land and leave, which was impossible before," said one villager, whose two-storey home now sits metres from gargantuan concrete pillars propping up the four-lane highway. "This story has some good sides for us villagers.

"It's like buying an expensive car and just leaving it parked in the garage."Ĭritics question how the rest of the road will be paid for and highlight environmental damage caused by the construction along with corruption allegations over the awarding of work contacts.īut locals are inclined to talk up the positives. "The construction looks impressive, but we must not stop at this," says 67-year-old Dragan who retired to the village of Matesevo. The government has already burnt through $944 million in Chinese loans to complete the first stretch of road, just 41 kilometres (25 miles), making it among the world's most expensive pieces of tarmac.Ĭhinese workers have spent six years carving tunnels through solid rock and raising concrete pillars above gorges and canyons, but the road in effect goes nowhere.Īlmost 130 kilometres still needs to be built at a likely cost of at least one billion euros ($1.2 billion).

Novoizgrađena obilaznica Bijelog Polja kategorisati kao dio magistralnog puta M-21 Ribarevine – Barski Most.Two sleek new roads vanish into mountain tunnels high above a sleepy Montenegrin village, the unlikely endpoint of a billion-dollar project bankrolled by China that is threatening to derail the tiny country's economy. ^ "Informacija o prekategorizaciji dionica državnih puteva" (PDF) (in Montenegrin).Drumski saobraćaj u Crnoj Gori (PDF) (in Montenegrin). ^ Doderović, Miroslav Ivanović, Zdravko (Fall 2012).^ Platije pojele 1200 života (Montenegrin) English: Platije took 1200 lives.Оvај put pоvеzuје dеsеt оpštinskih cеntаrа u Crnој Gоri, а njimе sе Crna Gоrа uključuје u mеđunarоdnu putnu mrеžu. Naјznačајniјi је оd njih, svаkаkо, јаdrаnski put M-2, pоpulаrnо nazvаn Јаdrаnskа mаgistrаlа, kоја prеdstаvljа kičmu putnе mrеžе Crnе Gоrе, јеr sе оd njе оdvајајu ili sa njom ukrštајu skоrо svi vаžniјi putni prаvci u zemlji. ^ a b "Pravilnik o kategorizaciji državnih puteva".In northern Montenegro, the M-2 was realigned from Ribarevine now going north via Bijelo Polje to the border with Serbia, instead of going via Berane and Rožaje to the border with Serbia, which is now the newly established M-5 highway. With this new categorisation, M-2 highway was no longer following the coastal road, from the border with Croatia to Petrovac na Moru, which is now part of the newly established M-1 highway. In January 2016, the Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs published bylaw on the categorisation of state roads. The M-21 highway would now run along the bypass, no longer running through the city center. As a result, on 27 March 2014, the Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs officially realigned the then M-21 highway to the current alignment. As a means to alleviate traffic in the city, the Montenegrin Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs commissioned a project to create a bypass around the city. Part of M-2 highway, which was known as M-21 highway before January 2016, flowed through the center of the city of Bijelo Polje and caused heavy traffic delays.

Part of the Bar-Boljare motorway that was built from 2015 to 2022 is a new and safe connection between Podgorica and Kolašin avoiding Platije Canyon.Ĭonstruction of the historical M-2 highway began in 1953. Most notorious part of this road is Platije Canyon, where more than 1200 people have lost their lives. The road is considered to be the "backbone of the Montenegrin road network". In 2016, the highway was shortened, and its route changed.

It goes from Petrovac na Moru in Budva Municipality, through the capital city of Podgorica, and the towns of Kolašin and Mojkovac, to the border of Serbia north of Bijelo Polje. The M-2 highway is the oldest and most important connection between the coastal region and the North of Montenegro. The M-2 highway ( Montenegrin: Magistralni put M-2) is a Montenegrin roadway. M23 / E763 in Barski Most (border with Serbia)īudva, Bar, Podgorica, Kolašin, Mojkovac, Bijelo Polje
