Belgrade closes Terazije Tunnel for overnight film shoot
The Secretariat for Public Transport says the Terazije Tunnel will be shut in both directions from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. on August 2. Sixteen bus routes change, seven of them night lines.
Belgrade’s Secretariat for Public Transport published a notice on July 31 stating that the Terazije Tunnel will be closed to traffic in both directions overnight between Saturday and Sunday. The shutdown runs on August 2, from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., and during that window 16 public transport lines will run on altered routes. Seven of them are night lines, and every one of them crosses the Sava over Branko’s Bridge.
The reason is not the event at the Arena. The notice states that the tunnel is being closed for the filming of promotional content for the City of Belgrade, and the same document is posted as a PDF on the website of city operator GSP, in its section on route changes, under number 6789. The timing overlaps with the hours when the Arena empties out after a show, but the notice draws no connection between the two. Neither the Interior Ministry (MUP), nor the City of Belgrade, nor GSP had published any statement by this morning dealing explicitly with security or traffic management around the Arena. We have covered the venue’s entry rules and parking separately; everything stated officially about traffic that night concerns the shoot.
Which lines are rerouted
The change covers night lines 15N, 18N, 72N, 95N, 603N, 706N and 707N, along with daytime lines 3A, 16, 27E, 35, 65, 77, 94, 95 and 600.
Line 95N heading for Novi Beograd will run via Trg Republike, Brace Jugovica, Decanska, Trg Nikole Pasica, Kneza Milosa, Nemanjina, Balkanska, Gavrila Principa and Branko’s Bridge. In the opposite direction, towards Borca, the same line takes Branko’s Bridge, Zeleni venac, Prizrenska, Terazije, Trg Nikole Pasica, Takovska, Svetogorska, Makedonska, Brace Jugovica and Bulevar despota Stefana.
Line 72N towards Nikola Tesla Airport runs via Trg Republike, Makedonska, Brace Jugovica, Decanska, Trg Nikole Pasica, Kneza Milosa, Nemanjina, Balkanska, Gavrila Principa and Branko’s Bridge, then follows the regime already in force on that stretch because of roadworks in Nedeljka Gvozdenovica street.
What about the lines to Zemun, Batajnica and Dobanovci?
They all follow the same pattern, over Branko’s Bridge. Line 18N towards Zemun turns off Slavija Square into Nemanjina, then Balkanska, Gavrila Principa and onto the bridge. Lines 603N to Dobanovci, 706N to Batajnica and 707N to Zemun Polje do the same. On the sections altered for the shoot, meaning around the tunnel and on the Ada Bridge, vehicles use the existing public transport stops.
The second night in a row
This is the second overnight closure in a row. From 11 p.m. on July 31 until 5 a.m. on August 1, the Ada Bridge was fully shut in the direction from the Belgrade Fair towards Novi Beograd, including the slip road from the Fair to the bridge and the approach from Rakovica. During that closure, line 94 reached Novi Beograd via Bulevar vojvode Misica, the Mostar interchange and the Gazela bridge, with line 600 taking the same path to the airport.
Earlier the same evening, from 7 p.m. to midnight, the lane next to the Careva cuprija restaurant on the Ada Bridge was also closed, sending line 3A down the exit ramp towards the Fair. The notice also flagged intermittent stoppages of three to five minutes from Novi Beograd towards Rakovica, with instructions for transport vehicles to wait on the route during those breaks.
A third change is running through the network at the same time and has nothing to do with filming. In the Vozdovac district, work on Miska Jovanovica street, on the section between Peke Pavlovica and Husova, lasts from today until August 8. Lines 26, 30 and 26N are diverted because of it, and new temporary bus stops have been set up for them in Darvinova. It is the only one of the three regimes that lasts for days; the other two are lifted before dawn.
