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Political movement Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own on March 28 warned that following a temporary suspension of rail services between Belgrade and Bar [Montenegro], Serbia’s capital city had been left without any rail line with other countries in the Balkans.
“Along with destruction of international rail services, the local rail network has been devastated. While the ruling Serbian Progressive Party has been bragging about investments in the railway sector and refurbishment of 75 kilometers of the Belgrade-Novi Sad railroad, the situation in railway transport has been deteriorating,” the movement said in a release.
The movement recalled that in the past, Belgrade was connected by rail with Vienna, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Budapest, Timisoara, Istanbul, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Skopje, and other European cities, while today there was only one international rail service available in Serbia, connecting Dimitrovgrad and Sofia and operating once a day.
Movement’s transport coordinator Zoran Bukvic said that “in Western Europe, high-speed trains represent a more efficient mode of transport than airplanes for distances of up to 400 kilometers.”
“A combination of high-speed rail and parking on city outskirts as well as intermodal integration of trains with city public transport and bike-sharing systems can rival private cars as the dominant mode of transport for longer travels between cities,” Bukvic specified.
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