Struma motorway

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Struma motorway
Автомагистрала „Струма“
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Struma motorway highlighted in red and yellow
Route information
Part of E79
Length: 86.7 km (53.9 mi)
156 km (97 mi) planned
0 km (0 mi) under construction
Major junctions
From: Pernik, Mw A6 BG.svg
To: Kulata, Greece
Location
Major cities: Pernik, Dupnitsa, Blagoevgrad, Sandanski
Highway system
Motorways in Bulgaria
File:Pan-European corridor 4.svg
Pan-European corridor IV highlighted in red

The Struma Motorway (Bulgarian: Автомагистрала „Струма“, Avtomagistrala "Struma") is a motorway currently under construction in Bulgaria. The motorway follows the route Pernik-Dupnitsa-Blagoevgrad-Sandanski-border to Greece. It is part of the Pan-European Corridor IV and also is part of Е79, that runs from Miskolc (Hungary) to Thessaloniki (Greece), via the Romanian cities of Deva and Craiova.

The Struma motorway extends the Lyulin motorway (A6), running from Sofia to Pernik. The total planned length of Struma motorway is 156 km. It ends at the border crossing to Greece, at the village of Kulata. About 86.7 km of the motorway are already built and are in service, from Pernik junction to Blagoevgrad and from Sandanski to the village Kulata, nearby the border of Greece.

The motorway is named after the Struma River.

History

The motorway was divided into 5 construction lots: lot 0 is Pernik-Dolna Dikanya, lot 1 is Dolna Dikanya-Dupnitsa, lot 2 is Dupnitsa–Blagoevgrad, lot 3 is Blagoevgrad–Sandanski and lot 4 is Sandanski–Kulata. The construction of lot 1 started in September 2011 and was completed in July 2013,[1] while the construction of lot 4 started in April 2012 and was finalized in July-August 2015.[2] A contract for the construction of lot 2 was signed in February 2013,[3] and it was completed in October 2015.[4]

Due to the high construction value of the project the construction of lot 3 has been set back to the 2014–2020 financial period and only a conceptual design had been drafted before that. Further, lot 3 has been divided into 3 sub-lots — 3.1 (Blagoevgrad—Krupnik), 3.2 (Krupnik-Kresna or Kresna Gorge) and 3.3 (Kresna-Sandanski) and is being tendered and managed by NCSIP.[5][6] A design and build contract for the Kresna—Sandanski section was signed on 25 September 2015.[7]

When built, the motorway will provide two driving lanes in each direction and wide emergency lanes so that it meets European motorway standards. The motorway will pass the gorge in combination of viaducts and tunnels in order to be least environmentally destroying to the nature in the Kresna Gorge. The four sections of the motorway are supposed to cost 1.2 billion € because of the difficult construction in the gorge.

Exits

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Exit km Destinations Notes
AB-AS-grün.svg AB-AS-blau.svg (0) Mw A6 BG.svg, Pernik Nat road 6 BG.svg In service
AB-AS-blau.svg (7,4) Studena In service
AB-AS-blau.svg (11,3) Bosnek In service
AB-AS-blau.svg (15) Staro selo In service
AB-AS-blau.svg (19) Dolna Dikanya In service
AB-AS-blau.svg (32.7) Dupnitsa-north In service
AB-AS-blau.svg (41.2) Dupnitsa-south, Kyustendil In service
AB-AS-blau.svg (55.3) Boboshevo In service
AB-AS-blau.svg (66.4) Blagoevgrad-north, Kocherinovo In service
AB-AS-blau.svg (72.6)[8] Blagoevgrad In service
AB-Tunnel.svg Zheleznitsa tunnel Project
AB-AS-blau.svg Zheleznitsa Tendered
AB-AS-blau.svg Simitli, Bansko Tendered
AB-AS-blau.svg Krupnik Tendered
AB-Tunnel.svg Kresna Gorge Tunnel Planned
AB-AS-blau.svg Kresna Design & build contract signed
AB-AS-blau.svg Strumyani Design & build contract signed
AB-AS-blau.svg Sandanski Design & build contract signed
AB-AS-blau.svg Petrich, Melnik In service
AB-AS-blau.svg General Todorov In service
AB-AS-blau.svg Marikostinovo In service
AB-AS-blau.svg Kulata; Thessaloniki, Athens Greece 28px In service

Gallery

  • Struma highway heading north close to Sofia 20090407 006.JPG

    Struma motorway near Pernik

References

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