The bridge is located just west of Obrenovac, spanning the river from the village of Urovci, right next to the TPP Nikola Tesla power plant (TENT).

The bridge is part of the Sremska gazela ("Syrmian gazelle") road, as of 2017 still under construction, which is to connect Obrenovac with the interchange loop at Dobanovci, on the European route E70.

[3] The bridge was originally projected as the carrier for the district heating pipeline, hence the closeness to the power plant.

),[4][5] The foundation stone was set on the Obrenovac side in 1994,[1] during the mayoral tenure of Nebojša Čović,[3] and it was supposed to connect the plant with the New Belgrade.

Due to the financial constraints, the works were halted in 1998 and the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 pushed this project out of any future plans as so much other infrastructure had to be repaired.

In the next years nothing new was done as works included only the maintenance of the already placed steel construction and the reparation of one of the pillars which was damaged by the barge.

[5] Initiated by mayor Dragan Đilas, tentative works on further building began in April 2010[3] and the full blown construction ensued in 2011.

Old pipes can't be used as they deteriorated, and they served for the draining of the Kolubara mines after the catastrophic 2014 Southeast Europe floods, but the concreted canal can, and will be unearthed.

[6] However, only in October 2023 the annex of the contract with the Power Construction Corporation of China (PCCC) was signed regarding the works.

Chinese contractors said they will "expedite" the procedure, while Belgrade's mayor Aleksandar Šapić said the project will be finished in two years, by October 2025.