A new bridge across the Kaštela Bay is being built!

By the end of this year, Croatian Roads will announce a tender for the technical and design solution of the new bridge over Kaštela Bay, which will connect Split and Kaštela and at the same time represent the fastest connection of the second largest city in the country with the highway, the state-owned company confirmed for tportal.

This facility is part of a more comprehensive project called ‘New entrance to Split’, and it includes the construction of a new road from the Vučevica intersection on the highway, through the Kozjak tunnel and over the two-lane road to Kaštela, then over the bridge mentioned above to Split and finally to its ferry port. It is worth several billion kuna and four years ago it was included in the list of strategic projects of the Republic of Croatia.

It was announced that Croatian Roads will finance the part from Vučevica to Kaštela from its own resources, including the tunnelling through Kozjak. For that part of the investment, public procurement for the execution of the works has already been initiated. The documentation of the bridge itself will be prepared for financing from European funds.

Completion of the entire project is not expected before 2027.

In addition to the traffic connection of the congested Split agglomeration, the ‘New entrance to Split’ should bring a twenty-kilometre shorter journey between this city and Zagreb, and finally enable Kaštela to have a direct connection with the highway. In addition, it will bring new road access to Split itself, a city located on a peninsula, which has been dependent on two roads on its eastern part for decades.

Croatian roads, apart from the confirmation of the tender for the new bridge, did not want to provide any additional information on this topic.

This company in the wider Split area is currently implementing several projects worth several billion HRK, but despite the announcements, physical works have not yet started in most of them. It is precisely in this area that the two busiest points in Croatia are located, the intersections of Solin and Stobreč, which are used by about 60,000 vehicles on a daily basis, while the ferry port with five million passengers a year is almost impossible to access in the summer months.

source: morski.hr