Orehovica interchange

{{Short description|Trumpet interchange in Rijeka, Croatia}}

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|name= Orehovica interchange

|image=Cvor Orehovica Rijeka 060708.jpg

|image_caption=Orehovica interchange, the southern terminus of the A6 motorway

|image_alt=A trumpet motorway interchange

|other_names={{langx|hr|čvor Orehovica}}

|location= Rijeka, Croatia

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|roads={{jct|country=HRV|A|6}}
{{jct|country=HRV|A|7}}

|type=Trumpet interchange

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The Orehovica interchange ({{langx|hr|Čvor Orehovica}}) is a trumpet interchange in Rijeka, Croatia. The interchange represents the southern terminus of the A6 motorway and it connects the A6 route to the A7 motorway between Škurinje and Draga exits, also representing a part of Rijeka bypass.{{cite web | publisher = Autocesta Rijeka–Zagreb | url = http://www.arz.hr/index.php?page=3&sub=17&lng=2 | title = Rijeka bypass | accessdate = October 12, 2010}} The interchange is a part of Pan-European corridor Vb.{{cite web | publisher = European Union | url = http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-02-1275_en.htm | title = Transport : launch of the Italy-Turkey pan-European Corridor through Albania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece | date = September 9, 2002 | accessdate= August 3, 2014}} It also represents a junction of European routes E61 and E65.{{cite web | publisher= United Nations Economic Commission for Europe | url=http://www.unece.org/trans/conventn/ECE-TRANS-SC1-384e.pdf | title=European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries | date=March 13, 2008 | format=PDF | accessdate=September 6, 2010}}

The interchange was originally executed as Zagreb–Rijeka motorway terminus exit, connecting the motorway to the city of Rijeka itself directly.{{cite news | newspaper= Žmigavac | publisher= Primorje-Gorski Kotar County | language= Croatian | url= http://www.ppv.pgz.hr/dokumenti/ZMIGAVAC_7_1.pdf | title= Od Lujzijane do autoceste | trans-title= From Louisiana to the motorway | author= Igor Žic | format= PDF | date= February 13, 2008 | accessdate= October 7, 2010 | url-status= dead | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110721101457/http://www.ppv.pgz.hr/dokumenti/ZMIGAVAC_7_1.pdf | archivedate= July 21, 2011 }} Following construction of Rijeka bypass towards Škurinje (westward), the interchange was expanded, but it was still used as a motorway exit. Once the bypass, i.e. A7 motorway, was extended eastward to Sveti Kuzam, the motorway exit was scheduled to be cancelled. A subsequent intervention into the design documents allowed preservation of one directional ramp facilitating exit from the southbound A6 motorway at the interchange.{{cite web | publisher = City of Rijeka | language = Croatian | url = http://www.rijeka.hr/RekonstrukcijaIDogradnja | title = Rekonstrukcija i dogradnja čvora Orehovica na državnom cestovnom pravcu D3 | trans-title = Reconstruction and expansion of Orehovica interchange on D3 state road route | accessdate = October 12, 2010 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110726075010/http://www.rijeka.hr/RekonstrukcijaIDogradnja | archivedate = July 26, 2011 }}