- Published: 07.07.2015.
PM: Zagorje is densely populated area and in need of modern roads
Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic and Transport Minister Sinisa Hajdas-Doncic on Monday toured three construction sites and completed sections of state roads in the northwestern Krapina-Zagorje County, in which the national road operator Hrvatske Ceste has invested around 1.7 billion kuna to improve traffic flows within the county and between the county and the capital Zagreb and beyond.
They first visited 11-km-long renovated sections of state road D29 (Marija Bistrica-Kasina-Laz), with renovation costs totalling HRK 61 million.
As part of the renovation work, 11 landslides were repaired, new pedestrian lanes were built along a route used by pilgrims arriving from the direction of Zagreb at the Marian shrine of Marija Bistrica, and a parking area on the fringes of the Medvednica Nature Park was upgraded.
The PM and his minister then visited the Bedekovcina interchange and the construction site of the Mokrice-Marija Bistrica expressway with a connection to Breznicki Hum, which is an integral part of a route connecting the area behind Mt Medvednica with Zagreb and completes the Zagreb area road ring.
The value of that investment is around 1.6 billion kuna, and currently work is under way on a section of the Zlatar Bistrica - Andrasevac expressway and on the Andrasevac - Mokrice section, including an interchange.
Milanovic and Hajdas Doncic eventually toured a flyover at Sv. Kriz Zacretje, namely the construction site of the Zabok-Krapina junction, where work is under way on a six-kilometre section connecting Zabok and Sv. Kriz Zacretje. The project is estimated at HRK 43.6 million.
Accompanying the prime minister and the transport minister were Hrvatske Ceste officials and Krapina-Zagorje County officials.
In a statement to the media, Milanovic underlined the importance of work on roads in that county, stressing that roads there were built before they were built in most other parts of Croatia, which meant that they were very old and needed to be upgraded.
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