Train (Beta/Milan Obradovic)
Minister for Transportation and Infrastructure of Serbia Aleksandra Sofronijevic announced on March 3 at the Kopaonik Business Forum that the establishing of passenger traffic between Serbia and Hungary on the Belgrade-Budapest high-speed railway and the opening of road expressways were expected by the end of March.
“We have the last meeting with our Hungarian colleagues on Thursday (March 5), when we will precisely define when passenger traffic can start moving. The expected date, as announced by the Hungarians, is March 27,” the minister stated. She recollected that the first freight train from Hungary arrived in Subotica on Feb. 27, marking the establishing of cargo traffic between Serbia and Hungary.
“All the international safety standards have been fulfilled. Serbia has procured five new electric-powered train sets for this route (Soko trains) and, with the three Hungarian sets, we will have eight sets of electric trains that will run 16 times, i.e. have 16 departures per day,” Sofronijevic stated.
She said that this year’s plan was to open 131 kilometers of motorways and expressways, and that 394 kilometers of such roads was currently under construction. She said that legal amendments had allowed the state to serve as investor in local road maintenance, so the plan for this year was to reconstruct between 800 and 1000 kilometers of such roads with assistance from the state.
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