Jadranska Avenue
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Jadranska Avenue is a mostly six-lane controlled-access avenue in the Novi Zagreb – zapad
city district of southwestern Zagreb
, Croatia
. Legally designated as a part of County road Ž1040, it runs between the Remetinec Roundabout and the Zagreb bypass
, acting as an important thoroughfare both for commuters from southwestern suburbs of Lučko
and Stupnik
and for travellers coming to the city by A1 motorway
. The avenue experiences high amounts of seasonal traffic in summer resulting in traffic jams sometimes spanning the whole length of the avenue. The daily traffic has also been rising in recent years due to former bedroom communities in Zagreb County
from the 1990s becoming new outer suburbs in the 2000s. Novi Zagreb
neighborhoods Blato
, Botinec
and Lanište are located directly south of the avenue. The intersection with Lanište Road was recently converted into an interchange.
The primary entrance to the six-lane Jadranska Avenue is through the Remetinec Roundabout. The three- to four-lane roundabout receives traffic from the grade-separated
Adriatic Bridge
accessway in the north, the Dubrovnik Avenue
from the east, and the Remetinec Road in the south. Jadranska Avenue is also accessible from the nearby neighbourhood of Kajzerica
through a westbound one-way ramp, located near the local Billa supermarket and McDonald's
restaurant, which in turn are accessible from the nearby surface street
s to the north which can be accessed by the means of RIRO interchanges on the bridge accessway.
Jadranska Avenue continues by lightly curving in a southwest direction away from the center of Novi Zagreb
. Noise barrier
s are installed alongside the avenue, on the south side between the Remetinec Roundabout and Lanište Street interchange.
Approximately 800 metre (0.497098189319845 mi) from the eastern terminus, the avenue intersects the Lanište Street at a diamond interchange
. The four-lane street continues south to provide access to the neighborhood of Lanište, the Remetinečki Gaj Street, and Arena Zagreb. The northern leg of this interchange has not been built , as the northward extension would have to cross the river Sava towards Jarun
, so it functions more as a trumpet interchange.
After the interchange, the roadway widens to eight lanes. A gas station opened in February 2008 and owned by OMV Croatia
is open 24 hours a day and offers a convenience store
600 m (656.2 yd) westbound from the Lanište Street interchange.
Directly west of the OMV gas station, there is an at-grade intersection that connects to a nearby roundabout in the south, which in turn connects the Jarušćica Street (providing access to Remetinec
as well as western parts of Lanište) as well as another street that leads to an intersection of the Remetinec Road (extended in 2008), the Karlovac Road, and the Brezovica Road, connecting the suburbs of Remetinec, Blato
, and Botinec
, respectively. The aforementioned Jadranska Avenue intersection also has a northern outlet, marked Local Route L10054, that leads north towards the University Hospital (currently inoperative) and the Zagreb Golf & Country Club. This intersection is the only at-grade intersection of Jadranska Avenue.
The avenue continues along a straight line trailing the northern border of Blato for another 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) before bridging the Sava-Odra
floodwater canal by the means of a 435 m (1,427.2 ft) long viaduct. After the bridge, the road enters a collector/distributor road setup, which accompanies it through the last few interchanges. Two RIROs provide entry and exit to the Karlovac Road in Blato, Lučko
, Hrvatski Leskovac
and the Brezovica
city district. Immediately thereafter, the Lučko stack interchange
with the Zagreb bypass
is located.
Noise barriers are also planned to be installed at the Lučko interchange
.
–Karlovac
highway (today part of A1
), the first highway in Croatia. Together with the Karlovac expressway
, its construction cost 110 million Yugoslav dinars. It was built in 1972 as an extension of Dubrovnik Avenue (then called Boris Kidrič Avenue after the eponymous Yugoslav political figure
) and it spanned from the Dubrovnik Avenue and Adriatic Bridge intersection to the old Lučko Interchange, without any exits. The avenue was 28 metres (91.9 ft) wide and had three traffic lanes in each direction, similar to the A1 lane setup, which also features a 28-meter pavement with three lanes in each direction, but one of them is marked as a hard shoulder. At the time, the Zagreb bypass
was in planning stages and the Lučko Interchange only provided access to Lučko and the old Karlovac Road through two RIROs (still used today) and the large stack interchange
was built and opened for traffic as late as 1979. Like most Croatian highways
, the expressway was planned with a design speed of 120 kilometres per hour (74.6 mph) in mind.
Novi Zagreb - zapad
Novi Zagreb – zapad has the status of a city district in Zagreb, Croatia and as such has an elected council.According to the 2001 Croatian census, Novi Zagreb – zapad has 48,981 residents.-List of neighborhoods in Novi Zagreb – zapad:...
city district of southwestern Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, Croatia
Croatia
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. Legally designated as a part of County road Ž1040, it runs between the Remetinec Roundabout and the Zagreb bypass
Zagreb bypass
Zagreb bypass , is an U-shaped motorway partially encircling Zagreb, Croatia. The largest part by far, between Jankomir and Ivanja Reka interchanges, has been built between 1977 and 1979, while Ivanja Reka - Sveta Helena section has been built between 1996 and 1999. The bypass is long, tracing...
, acting as an important thoroughfare both for commuters from southwestern suburbs of Lučko
Lucko
Lučko is a neighborhood in Novi Zagreb - zapad district of Zagreb, Croatia, located south of the Sava and southwest of the city center, near the Lučko interchange that connects the Zagreb-Karlovac motorway, the Zagreb bypass and the old road to Karlovac. The population is 2,841...
and Stupnik
Stupnik
Stupnik is a municipality in Croatia in the Zagreb county. According to the 2001 census, there are 3,251 inhabitants, 94% of whom are Croats....
and for travellers coming to the city by A1 motorway
A1 (Croatia)
The A1 motorway is the longest motorway in Croatia spanning . As it connects Zagreb, the nation's capital, to Split, the second largest city in the country and the largest city in Dalmatia, the motorway represents a major north–south transportation corridor in Croatia and a significant part of the...
. The avenue experiences high amounts of seasonal traffic in summer resulting in traffic jams sometimes spanning the whole length of the avenue. The daily traffic has also been rising in recent years due to former bedroom communities in Zagreb County
Zagreb County
Zagreb County is a county in central Croatia. It surrounds – but does not contain – the nation's capital Zagreb, which is a separate territorial unit. For that reason, it is often nicknamed "Zagreb ring"...
from the 1990s becoming new outer suburbs in the 2000s. Novi Zagreb
Novi Zagreb
Novi Zagreb is the part of the city of Zagreb located south of the Sava river, on the way from the Pleso airport to the city center...
neighborhoods Blato
Blato, Zagreb
Blato is a neighborhood located in the Novi Zagreb - zapad city district of Zagreb, Croatia. It is spread along the Karlovačka Road, south of Jadranska Avenue. The population is around 2,600....
, Botinec
Botinec
Botinec is a neighborhood located in Novi Zagreb - zapad city district of Zagreb, Croatia. It is famous for having its streets named after famous character from Croatian theater plays and novels. It was founded in 1965 as a refugee camp after the 1964 flood, owing its rectangular street grid to the...
and Lanište are located directly south of the avenue. The intersection with Lanište Road was recently converted into an interchange.
Route description
Grade separation
Grade separation is the method of aligning a junction of two or more transport axes at different heights so that they will not disrupt the traffic flow on other transit routes when they cross each other. The composition of such transport axes does not have to be uniform; it can consist of a...
Adriatic Bridge
Adriatic Bridge
Adriatic Bridge is a six-lane road and tram bridge over Sava River in Zagreb,Croatia....
accessway in the north, the Dubrovnik Avenue
Dubrovnik Avenue
Dubrovnik Avenue is an avenue located in the Novi Zagreb part of Zagreb, Croatia. It is mostly six or eight lanes wide. It runs between the roundabout beneath the southward extension of the Youth Bridge in the east and the Remetinec Roundabout in the west of Novi Zagreb. Its most important...
from the east, and the Remetinec Road in the south. Jadranska Avenue is also accessible from the nearby neighbourhood of Kajzerica
Kajzerica
Kajzerica is a neighborhood located in the Novi Zagreb – zapad city district of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. It is located west of Bundek Lake and east of the Western Rotary and Adriatic Bridge. It has a population of 4,000....
through a westbound one-way ramp, located near the local Billa supermarket and McDonald's
McDonald's
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restaurant, which in turn are accessible from the nearby surface street
Street
A street is a paved public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable...
s to the north which can be accessed by the means of RIRO interchanges on the bridge accessway.
Jadranska Avenue continues by lightly curving in a southwest direction away from the center of Novi Zagreb
Novi Zagreb
Novi Zagreb is the part of the city of Zagreb located south of the Sava river, on the way from the Pleso airport to the city center...
. Noise barrier
Noise barrier
A noise barrier is an exterior structure designed to protect sensitive land uses from noise pollution...
s are installed alongside the avenue, on the south side between the Remetinec Roundabout and Lanište Street interchange.
Approximately 800 metre (0.497098189319845 mi) from the eastern terminus, the avenue intersects the Lanište Street at a diamond interchange
Diamond interchange
A diamond interchange is a common type of road junction, used where a freeway crosses a minor road. The freeway itself is grade-separated from the minor road, one crossing the other over a bridge...
. The four-lane street continues south to provide access to the neighborhood of Lanište, the Remetinečki Gaj Street, and Arena Zagreb. The northern leg of this interchange has not been built , as the northward extension would have to cross the river Sava towards Jarun
Jarun
Jarun is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of Zagreb, Croatia. It was named after Lake Jarun, formed by the Sava River, now located on the southern edge of the neighborhood.-Lake:...
, so it functions more as a trumpet interchange.
OMV
OMV is Austria's largest oil-producing, refining and gas station operating company with important activities in other Central European countries...
is open 24 hours a day and offers a convenience store
Convenience store
A convenience store, corner store, corner shop, commonly called a bodega in Spanish-speaking areas of the United States, is a small store or shop in a built up area that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries, toiletries, alcoholic and soft drinks, and may also offer money order and...
600 m (656.2 yd) westbound from the Lanište Street interchange.
Directly west of the OMV gas station, there is an at-grade intersection that connects to a nearby roundabout in the south, which in turn connects the Jarušćica Street (providing access to Remetinec
Remetinec
Remetinec is a neighborhood in the Novi Zagreb – zapad city district of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. It is located south of the Remetinec Roundabout and Lanište, west of Trokut and the railway triangle and west of Blato. It has a population of 3,428....
as well as western parts of Lanište) as well as another street that leads to an intersection of the Remetinec Road (extended in 2008), the Karlovac Road, and the Brezovica Road, connecting the suburbs of Remetinec, Blato
Blato, Zagreb
Blato is a neighborhood located in the Novi Zagreb - zapad city district of Zagreb, Croatia. It is spread along the Karlovačka Road, south of Jadranska Avenue. The population is around 2,600....
, and Botinec
Botinec
Botinec is a neighborhood located in Novi Zagreb - zapad city district of Zagreb, Croatia. It is famous for having its streets named after famous character from Croatian theater plays and novels. It was founded in 1965 as a refugee camp after the 1964 flood, owing its rectangular street grid to the...
, respectively. The aforementioned Jadranska Avenue intersection also has a northern outlet, marked Local Route L10054, that leads north towards the University Hospital (currently inoperative) and the Zagreb Golf & Country Club. This intersection is the only at-grade intersection of Jadranska Avenue.
The avenue continues along a straight line trailing the northern border of Blato for another 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) before bridging the Sava-Odra
Odra
Odra may refer to:* Oder, a river in Czech Republic, Poland and Germany* Odra , a computer once made in Poland* Name of several Polish football clubs, e.g...
floodwater canal by the means of a 435 m (1,427.2 ft) long viaduct. After the bridge, the road enters a collector/distributor road setup, which accompanies it through the last few interchanges. Two RIROs provide entry and exit to the Karlovac Road in Blato, Lučko
Lucko
Lučko is a neighborhood in Novi Zagreb - zapad district of Zagreb, Croatia, located south of the Sava and southwest of the city center, near the Lučko interchange that connects the Zagreb-Karlovac motorway, the Zagreb bypass and the old road to Karlovac. The population is 2,841...
, Hrvatski Leskovac
Hrvatski Leskovac
Hrvatski Leskovac is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D1 highway.-References:...
and the Brezovica
Brezovica
Brezovica or Brezovitsa may refer to:* Brezovica Municipality, Slovenia* Brezovica, Hrpelje – Kozina Slovenia* Brezovica, Radovljica Slovenia* Brezovica, Velika Polana in Slovenia* Brezovica, Sabinov, a village in Sabinov District in Slovakia...
city district. Immediately thereafter, the Lučko stack interchange
Stack interchange
A stack interchange is a free-flowing grade separated junction between two roads.In countries where one drives on the right, left turns are handled by semi-directional flyover/under ramps...
with the Zagreb bypass
Zagreb bypass
Zagreb bypass , is an U-shaped motorway partially encircling Zagreb, Croatia. The largest part by far, between Jankomir and Ivanja Reka interchanges, has been built between 1977 and 1979, while Ivanja Reka - Sveta Helena section has been built between 1996 and 1999. The bypass is long, tracing...
is located.
Noise barriers are also planned to be installed at the Lučko interchange
Lučko interchange
The Lučko interchange is a stack interchange in Zagreb, Croatia. It is named after nearby Zagreb neighborhood of Lučko. The interchange represents the northern terminus of the A1 motorway and it connects the A1 route to the A3 motorway between Jankomir interchange and Buzin exit, also representing...
.
History
Jadranska Avenue was conceived as an expressway approach for the ZagrebZagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
–Karlovac
Karlovac
Karlovac is a city and municipality in central Croatia. The city proper has a population of 49,082, while the municipality has a population of 59,395 inhabitants .Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County...
highway (today part of A1
A1 (Croatia)
The A1 motorway is the longest motorway in Croatia spanning . As it connects Zagreb, the nation's capital, to Split, the second largest city in the country and the largest city in Dalmatia, the motorway represents a major north–south transportation corridor in Croatia and a significant part of the...
), the first highway in Croatia. Together with the Karlovac expressway
B1 (Croatia)
The state road D1 is a national highway in Croatia. It is a one-lane highway that spans from Macelj border crossing in the north via Krapina, Zagreb, Karlovac, Slunj, Gračac, Knin, Sinj, ending in Split...
, its construction cost 110 million Yugoslav dinars. It was built in 1972 as an extension of Dubrovnik Avenue (then called Boris Kidrič Avenue after the eponymous Yugoslav political figure
Boris Kidric
Boris Kidrič was a leading Slovenian Communist who was, jointly with Edvard Kardelj, one of the chief organizers of the Partisan struggle in Slovenia from 1941 to 1945....
) and it spanned from the Dubrovnik Avenue and Adriatic Bridge intersection to the old Lučko Interchange, without any exits. The avenue was 28 metres (91.9 ft) wide and had three traffic lanes in each direction, similar to the A1 lane setup, which also features a 28-meter pavement with three lanes in each direction, but one of them is marked as a hard shoulder. At the time, the Zagreb bypass
Zagreb bypass
Zagreb bypass , is an U-shaped motorway partially encircling Zagreb, Croatia. The largest part by far, between Jankomir and Ivanja Reka interchanges, has been built between 1977 and 1979, while Ivanja Reka - Sveta Helena section has been built between 1996 and 1999. The bypass is long, tracing...
was in planning stages and the Lučko Interchange only provided access to Lučko and the old Karlovac Road through two RIROs (still used today) and the large stack interchange
Stack interchange
A stack interchange is a free-flowing grade separated junction between two roads.In countries where one drives on the right, left turns are handled by semi-directional flyover/under ramps...
was built and opened for traffic as late as 1979. Like most Croatian highways
Highways in Croatia
Highways in Croatia are the main transport network in Croatia.The Croatian classification includes several classes of highways:* The main motorways are named A accompanied by one or two digits...
, the expressway was planned with a design speed of 120 kilometres per hour (74.6 mph) in mind.