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.
Delete^ My goodness. First the guy makes up that the ticket will be expensive. Then when he is told it's unlikely as even on intercity routes the fare is not expensive someone comes to inform us about Frankfurt fares, alluding how this Belgrade line will somehow be more expensive. Then when someone notes that suburban rail in Belgrade is free, another person comes to explain how 'probably' it won't be free when the line becomes operational in 11 months. Some people need help.
DeleteIt's him, one person only.
DeletePlot twist, all the comments are the same person
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.
DeleteNot at all. I'm glad a rail link has been built. Just lets not pretend its revolutionary
DeleteAnd where in any of the comments did he say it's revolutionary?
Delete@14:18 you're talking about the country with extensive rail network. But do pop off.
DeleteWho said it won't be expensive?
DeleteRegardless of whether some people here think it will be expensive, the rail link is much needed and will be appreciated by locals and visitors alike.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is being constructed in record time. Approval and construction of such a project in the US would take years.
The comparisons with other country's infrastructure records is perhaps not always something Serbia comes up will in however...
ReplyDeleteBut yeah great its being built.
And, Airport railway station will be 800-1000 meters from airport terminal building,Bravo💱💱✈️✈️😭😭
ReplyDeleteNo. It has been reported that it is 500 metres away.
DeleteThere will be a free shuttle bus between the terminal and the station.
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