The current local government has made a decisive move to address one of the most significant problems for the city under Orijen. Thus, after almost a decade of the original idea, Herceg Novi Municipality budgeted one million euro in 2019 for the implementation of the new bus station project at Šištet. The goal of the local government is that the city under Orjen, in 2020, will get a representative building that will be the foundation for the further development of Igalo, and Herceg Novi in general.
Design of bus station
The Agency for Construction and Development of Herceg Novi has done a study which elaborated the locations for the construction of a new bus station. The study showed that the advantage of the location at Šištet is that it is located on the west side of the city and gravitates towards border crossings with Croatia, but also towards the branch of the future bypass and the highway route starting in Sutorina. In addition, this is a land owned by the Municipality that covers an area of about 21,000 sqm.
"First of all, we will build it with everything we need, and then expand it later on with the business and economic aspects," explained the Director of the Agency for Construction and Development of Herceg Novi, Boro Lučić.
PROJECT THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
As stated in the preliminary design, a significant number of tourists visiting Herceg Novi emphasized the fact that bus station is an important public building for the functioning of the utility city system, but also the first urban element of visitor experiences coming to the city.
Complex of the bus station
In the completed design solution, the surface, content and appearance of a new modern bus station are defined. The new bus station with accompanying facilities will occupy approximately 30 thousand sqm. It is designed as a complete functional zone, consisting of a terminal building, an object of accompanying business and commercial content, manipulative spaces for buses, an access road with a parking area and a maintenance facility with parking spaces. The conceptual solution envisages a total of 326 parking spaces, of which 99 are over-ground and 227 underground.
According to the conceptual solution, the bus station with additional facilities would be built in three phases, i.e. three mutually functional and technologically separate facilities.
The first phase involves the construction of a bus station building with a plateau and a supporting business space, totaling 15,169 m². As a precondition of the first phase, an access infrastructure will be built - a crossroad with the Adriatic highway and access street and parking in front of the main station building.
The second phase implies the construction of facilities for accompanying business and service facilities, while the third phase foresees the construction of a commercial center.
"Herceg Novi is an important tourist destination of Montenegro, and the proposed solution builds the first impression of Herceg Novi through the arrival of a complex urban ambience, conceived of a variety of facilities, organized into a unique functional unit that broadcasts the modernity, originality of interpretation and color sensations of the Mediterranean," reads the conceptual solution.
FREE TRANSPORT FOR CHILDREN, PUPILS AND PENSIONERS
The local administration has provided transportation to pupils from the villages and suburban settlements in Herceg Novi free of charge throughout the whole year, as well as for those whose families are in a difficult financial situation and to the children of the Children's Home "Mladost." In addition, free transportation was provided to the retirees with the lowest incomes from the territory of the Herceg Novi.
For the first time in three decades the city bus line has been extended, so buses are now moving to Sutorina, making the Municipality respond positively to the numerous requests of the citizens. In this way, it meets the needs of numerous citizens, residents of Bajkovina and Njivice, as well as numerous employees of large business centers in this part of town, to whom the extended line will make much the transport to work much easier. In addition, another station will be introduced at the intersection towards the settlement Servisna zona and Bajkovina for citizens who live and work in this part of the city.
Text by Promo, on January 18th 2019, read more at Vijesti
