Bypass route around Dimitrovgrad to be completed in December – Construction in final stage

Seven years since the beginning of the construction of the bypass route around Dimitrovgrad, this modern traffic route, a part of the eastern branch of Corridor 10, will finally be completed. The section is 8.67 km long and the majority of it opened for traffic in mid-September. The remaining works, 750 meters of the left lane and around 900 meters of the right one, near the Gradinje slope, are in their final stage, with asphalt being poured on the final kilometer of the road. The Corridors of Serbia claim, as announced by the acting director, Zoran Babic, during his visit to the construction site in October, that the job will be done by the end of December.

In line with the project, a section around 30-m deep needed to be removed from the hill encountered in the direction of the route. Around a million cubic meters of stone was removed in the past months. The slope will be secured with a protective net and integrated into the surroundings. A wall be raised as well, with green areas planned behind it.

The bypass route around Dimitrovgrad is one of the “slowest” sections in the Serbian corridors, seeing how eight kilometers are being built for seven years. Following the bankruptcy of Austria's Alpine and the termination of the contract with the Bulgarian company Trace, Greece's Aktor also failed to complete the works within the agreed deadline. The construction was planned to end on March 21, but the financial problems of the Greek company, whose accounts were blocked for a year and a half, caused the deadline to be exceeded again. As the Corridors announce, the project is finally to be completed these days.

Another 20 kilometers missing in eastern branch

The eastern branch of Corridor 10, from Nis to the border with Bulgaria, is around 86.9 km long. Once the bypass route is completed, around eight kilometers from Stanicenje to Pirot and around 12 kilometers from the Bancarevo tunnel to Crvena Reka will remain.

Koridori Srbije d.o.o. Beograd

ALPINE Bau GmbH Wals bei Salzburg

Trace Group Hold Sofia

Actor S.A. Greece

Zoran Babic

bypass route around Dimitrovgrad

Corridor 10

eastern branch of Corridor 10

Gradinje slope

Stanicenje Pirot section

Bancarevo Crvena Reka section

Bancarevo tunnel

Bancarevo

Crvena Reka