The Traffic Administration will not need an environmental impact assessment study for the project to build a 22-kilometer highway from Čevo to Nikšić. This section is planned to run from Čevo to the Nikšić village of Paprati, while it will connect to the Danilovgrad-Nikšić highway near Bogetic.
This decision was made by the Environmental Protection Agency. It is expected that work on this project will last about three years, and the highway is planned as a continuation of the Cetinje-Čevo road, which was officially opened in mid-June, with the 23 kilometers being built over five years, costing more than 33,04 million.
The construction of the entire Cetinje-Nikšić section will cost around 80 million euros and is being built with the aim of relieving traffic along the coast and towards Podgorica.
The route begins at more than 800 meters above sea level in Čevo and exceeds 1000 meters in altitude at the place Vranačke ljuti, goes above Javorovo dol and ends at about 500 meters above sea level in Paprati.
"The planned route of the Čevo-Nikšić main road does not pass through protected and classified areas (strict nature reserve, national park, special nature reserve, nature park, natural monument, area of exceptional features and areas and areas of historical, cultural or archaeological importance. When it comes to the vegetation and flora of the subject area, the negative impact is greatest on those parts of the route where the vegetation cover will be completely removed. Given that we do not have data on the state of populations of endemic and protected plant taxa, nor precise localities in the subject area, it is almost impossible to assess the magnitude of the negative impact on individual endemic and protected plants," the documentation states.
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