Summary. A summary of the expert article from the society's 35th anniversary volume. The full article is available to download below.
As part of the Drava region road corridor, a modernisation of the two-lane G1-2 main road between Ptuj and Ormož is planned, connecting the two towns and linking part of the Prlekija region with the Slovenian interior. The road will be reserved for motor traffic, with grade-separated junctions, designed for 100 km/h and with a cross-section 11 metres wide. As early as 2007, DARS opened the link between Hajdina and Ptuj with the 433-metre-long Puh Bridge over the Drava.
The new link was originally conceived as a tolled expressway, but after the A5 motorway was built and Slovenia joined the EU it proved justified as a two-lane road. Construction is divided into three sections: Ptuj, Markovci; Markovci, Gorišnica; and Gorišnica, Ormož, totalling roughly 23 kilometres.
The most demanding is the Ptuj, Markovci section, where the northern variant S1 was first proposed, but local communities opposed it, so preparation of the national spatial plan was halted. Since 2020 several northern and southern variants have been examined, some with tunnels. The article was written for the 35th anniversary of DCM SV by Boris Stergar.
