Buses Full tourists often stand for hours in the dark and a kilometer column trying to reach the Bosnian National Park Una, due to the lowered ramp between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is a suitable checkpoint from the beginning of the last century.
BiH authorities are working 23 years to merge a prefabricated container on the electromic, water supply, sewerage and fixed internet at the ripper in the northwest of the country.
At the hole, on the Croatian side, they captivate with a modern facility built according to the standards of the European Union.
“Road to Ripča is OK, but that transition seems very poorly, people who are tired of heat and ‘Žara’ priced beauty in our national park, and what the entrance to us is” emir radio.
Bosnian borders and customs officers were opened from the opening of the international border crossing in June 2002. relied exclusively to the gasoline aggregate.
In July 2021. they received less solar panels – investment worth about 15,000 euros.
If the aggregate at night makes, coach buses and cars are piling up for each other or turning north and another, 50 kilometers away from the election, famous per kilometer columns in both directions at any time of the year.
Border policemen and customs officers work in almost no terms. The toilet has no “wet node” and use water from the cistern – to the first winter minuses.
“When it is strong cloudy, we light up the aggregate, and then our passport readers do not do us only by insight into the documents,” he asked for a name for him because he had no authority for giving statements.
Why is the problem lead to electricity?
The border crossing Ripac in Bosnia and Uzjebic in Croatia are roughly just as far away from the closest to the villages of the same name.
From the Board of Indirect Taxation (UINO) of the BiH, which is responsible for collecting customs and governs boundary facilities, they said for the RSE that they addressed the competent electricity of BiH.
“Due to the high costs and the distance of the first possible connection of several kilometers, the implementation was delayed,” they stated from the UNI to BiH for RSE.
They also addressed Croatian Elektroprivreda, due to the proximity of their electricity, but regulations in Croatia do not allow the connection of new facilities outside Croatian state borders.
From the UNE BiH, they say that the process of adaptation of the transition, which includes the improvement of electricity supply.
For the electrodistribution in Bihać, they said that it is necessary to build a substation and the medium voltage “of the” appropriate length “and that the costs are shared by Elektroprivreda BiH and the applicant in this case.
They notice that 2011 were issued by electricity consent to join the border facilities and submitted a proposal for mutual relations and construction contracts.
“However, contracts have not been signed nor is the realized payment needed to initiate the connection process”, they stated in response to RSE from electricity distribution in Bihać.
Further say that the condition for joining the electromic is that the user submits an official request for the issuance of previous electricity consent.
“To date, such a request has not been received,” they said for the RCE from the Electricitystribution.
How much would all that cost, they did not respond from the UNITA or Elektroprivreda BiH.
Without the current, the fixed phone and Internet should also lead to this border crossing, as the communication, connecting computers and passport controls are used for mobile phones.
Tourist ramp
Locals say that this way goes by majority towards Zadar and Split and the Adriatic Sea, they do not have to circulate around Plitvice Lakes and use the highway that connects land Croatia and Dalmatia.
“I went a couple of times on that border crossing. He is also sad. But the people pass. I passed the other day and I met two buses for renting for renting nearby cottages to tourists.
As one of the biggest problems for tourism, see border crossings because people most often go to Izačić and Maljevac where, says, there are not enough open tapes and crowds are created.
Tourists who come to Dalmatia, explains the Esad, most often from Split and Zadar are going to Plitvice Lakes, from BiH and Bihac, Virgin I Una, Japod Islands and go south to Krupa.
“Most Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia. There are also Austrians, Czechs, Hungarians, Swedes, and from Finland. Rse Emir leading this job.
The road to the entrance to Una National Park was macadam, but is currently paved and should be ready until the beginning of the summer tourist season.
“There is a huge increase in the number of tourists. I haven’t opened up to this summer yet, and we have been able to get together with our homes,” the Emir is too high, “says Emir who takes care and private accommodation near the Una River.
Bed and breakfast costs about 35 euros per person, rafting on UNI, through the national park, costs about 50 euros, and if guests want barbecue, music, archery, depending on the wishes of guests.
Is it closer to Tirana or Ljubljana
Bihać and Una-Sanski Canton border with the Croatian and European Union, the main export and import market for businessmen from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“It happened that our two trucks go from Cazin, one for Slovenia, Albania, arrived at the destination, and the other was just crossing the Croatian border, the truck driver and co-owner of the transport company from this city.
At the exit to the election or large beam, he says, the trucks on average wait six, and at the entrance to BiH for three hours.
“For small cars let two strips, third for trucks. There is a lot of buses on weekends and then put them in front of the truck and additionally burdened freight traffic,” Bajrić adds.
Jasmin Emrić, the state representative, said for the RSE that about ten years ago, the reconstruction and expansion of border crossings in Bosnian Krajina.
It all says, the rest of the talks “while for years, this unbearable situation at borders is just watching.”
He says that as a representative comes from Buži, a Western Christian city of about 50 kilometers from the border with Croatia, initiated the issue of overcategorization of border crossings in Krajina 2016. in order to easily cross the passengers.
This initiative adopted the House of State Parliament, after which the BiH Council of Ministers in charge of the Indirect Taxation of BiH to join the overcategorization of several transitions, in agreement with the Croatian side.
“To date, nothing has been done,” Emrić said.
The total borders of BiH is about 1,550 kilometers long, of which the land is around 905, river about 625 and a sea twenty kilometers.
BiH has 86 border crossings, 58 of which are international while 28 transitions are intended for local border traffic locals, which may also have special passes.
