Bosnia and Herzegovina has constructed a little over 200 kilometres of motorways, half of which belong to the Corridor VC, a pan-European road link, connecting Budapest and eastern Croatia to the Adriatic coast through Bosnian territory. However, the country's two biggest cities, Sarajevo and Banja Luka, are still not connected with a fast road.

Bosnia's Federation (FBiH) entity has 102 kilometres of motorways, which fully belongs to the Corridor VC. Republika Srpska (RS) entity constructed three kilometres more, but none of it makes a part of this pan-European road link.

To connect Sarajevo and Banja Luka, RS has to construct some 10 more kilometres, while FBiH needs to build the part of the corridor from the central city of Zenica to Doboj in the north.

“Traffic parameters show that the road section Sarajevo-Zenica-Doboj is still the busiest one, and we had to construct that,” said traffic expert, Osman Lindov.

“We don't build the motorways strategically, systematically, according to parameters that is,” he warned.

The parts of the Corridor VC that Federation has built so far are disconnected. On the other hand, Republika Srpska linked all of its constructed sections with the biggest city, Banja Luka.

According to general manager of public road construction enterprise Autoputevi RS, Dusan Topic, this entity plans to be done with the remaining ten kilometres, which will connect its motorway network with the Corridor Vc, within three years. If the plan is fulfilled, connecting the two country's centres will be down on Federation, which has a far more complex work to be done, almost 60 kilometres long Zenica-Doboj motorway leg.