The cabinet adopted on Thursday the programme for the construction and maintenance of motorways in 2007. The EUR 734.5m plan includes opening 17.7 kilometres of new motorways and construction of over 100 kilometres of existing and new sections.
Transport Minister Janez Bozic told the press after the session that the opened sections would include: Maribor-Spodnja Senarska in the NE; Peracica-Podtabor in the north; and the first phase of the Sentvid-Koseze motorway near Ljubljana. Construction will meanwhile begin on the 14.8-kilometre Pluska-Ponikve and Ponikve-Hrastje sections in the SE part of Slovenia while works will continue on 101.9 kilometres of motorways and 18.7 kilometres of dual carriageways. The costs are meanwhile the highest yet and will be financed through the budget and EU funds as well as with loans, bonds and other means, the minister added.