evidence: With Croatia due for admission to the Schengen area in 2024, the Bosnian border blip was set to become a massive hurdle. A requirement of Schengen membership is that travelers and their vehicles are checked both on entry to, and exit from, Schengen territory. An additional checkpoint on Bosnia's Neum coastal strip would worsen already lengthy traffic backlogs during baking-hot summer months. [...] In Bosnia's Neum, which will lose much of its through traffic when the bridge opens, local predictions about what the future holds run the gamut. Nikita, a waiter in the Motel More restaurant on Bosnia's brief strip of coastal highway, is not optimistic. [...] In the City Bar and Cafe near the Neum waterfront, owner Davor is hopeful that opening easy access to the beaches of the Peljesac Peninsula will lure more Bosnians down to the coast, and points out a section of a major new road about to open that will shorten the trip south from Mostar to Neum.