Future
The government of Croatia and BINA Istra have agreed on a further expansion of the A8 route; additional carriageway and emergency lanes will be constructed between the Rogovići and Matulji interchanges, including the second Učka Tunnel tube. This construction is scheduled to finish by late 2014 or early 2015. The 45-kilometre (28 mi) section is expected to cost c. 300 million euros. As of October 2011, it was in the design development stage, while appropriate permits were expected to be issued in the summer of 2012. In 2003, the government also proposed to build a new route between the Učka Tunnel and the Matulji interchange in order to bypass the Opatija exit with its at-grade intersection, the only one of the route; the changes would also limit the longitudinal grade of the route to 4.9% and increase the design speed to 100 kilometres per hour (62 miles per hour). The new route is planned to intersect with the A7 motorway west of the Matulji interchange (where the A8 currently ends), in a proposed Matulji 2 interchange, with two additional interchanges (Anđeli and Frančići) planned between Veprinac and the new terminus. The existing Veprinac interchange is scheduled for reconstruction for an additional carriageway. The new section is expected to be 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) long; it will be part of the Rijeka transport hub, aimed at improving the road, rail and sea transport facilities in and around Rijeka.
Read more about this topic: A8 (Croatia)
Famous quotes containing the word future:
“Everything I do is done within sight of the Führer, so that my faults or mistakes are never hidden from him. I do my very utmost to live and act in such a manner that the Führer should remain satisfied with me; I am hard-working; but whether I shall always be able to cope with the tasks entrusted to me in the future as well, is an open question.”
—Martin Bormann (1900–1945)
“I would sell my life to avoid
the pain that begins in the crib
with its bars or perhaps
with your first breath
when the planets drill
your future into you....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The planet’s survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)