evidence: If you take a really close look at the map of the Eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea you will notice how, south of the Croatian city of Split, a narrow strip of land gives Bosnia and Herzegovina its access to the sea. The name of this strip of land is the Neum corridor, after which, the Croatian coast resumes. [...] Besides the above-mentioned bridge’s 2,4 km, the support infrastructure include an additional 32,5 km of new roads. Thus the extended network will reduce the journey between the two ends of the D8 motorway on each side of the Neum corridor by 37 minutes. The trip to reach South Dalmatia from mainland Croatia, which used to take at best 59 minutes will now only take 22 minutes. This will ensure smoother accessibility and more fluid traffic. [...] Croatia considered a number of alternative solutions to bypass the Neum Corridor bottleneck, such as a highway corridor, a ferry connection or the construction of tunnels.