NEWS FLASH
Construction of the rail link connecting Belgrade’s central railway station with the airport is progressing steadily. The 18.3-kilometre line includes six major structures - four bridges, a viaduct and an overpass. Works are most advanced around Zemun Polje station, where structural construction has been completed and tracks have already been laid along roughly 4.5 kilometres of the route.
The section between Zemun Polje and Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport spans eleven kilometres, while the stretch from the airport to the National Stadium extends for a further seven kilometres. One intermediate stop is planned between Zemun Polje and the airport, near the future Singidunum residential complex by the Dobanovci interchange. Final works are ongoing on the bridge over the motorway, while power supply masts have been installed along the entire alignment, and underpasses and lift shafts at future stations have been completed.
A projected 3.5 million people are expected to use the line per year, or 10.000 per day. Between November this year and March next year, nine new electric multiple unit trains, which will be used on the line, are due to be delivered. More than 500 people are engaged on the railway construction site each day, including approximately 200 engineers. Construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year, after which a testing phase will commence, with the line expected to enter service next spring.
We should learn something in Slovenia as that rail link from Ljubljana to the airport in Brnik will probably happen in more than 15 years from now.
ReplyDeleteForget Slovenia. Hopeless case
DeleteTicket price? Sounds like an arm and a leg.
ReplyDeleteA ticket on the Belgrade-Novi Sad fast rail costs 697 dinars (6 euros). I don't know why you think the ticket to the airport would cost the same or more. Btw public transport in Belgrade is free.
Delete12 euros return is a day pass in Frankfurt which includes the airport.
Delete^ so? The ticket to BEG airport will be cheaper than that.
DeleteIf they decide to run BG:Voz services on the line, those would be free, as they are considered public transport
DeleteProbably by the time this line becomes operational, public transport would not be free any longer.
DeleteIn Canada, a project like this would take 15 years and cost billions.
ReplyDeleteIn the UK the distance would be cut in half, the cost would double and project would finish at least 5 years late.
DeleteIts built through fields. Its hardly complex or mega engineering.
Delete^ lol you really are seething.
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