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Belgrade’s New Main Train Station – Downtown Belgrade, the popular Prokop, is far from the center, but also from the final look. Although several statesmen have promised completion of the works in recent years, all deadlines have been missed. And today new ones are promised again.
From the most modern train station with shops, cafes and other accompanying facilities, the first plate from which the accessories protrude is visible from the street. On the platform, a slightly different image. Trains carry passengers in and out of the country.
In recent years it has been widely promised that the station will be finished. The current president, Aleksandar Vučić, and the former prime minister, announced the completion of the works by January 2016. And when that date arrived, the unfinished station was ceremoniously inaugurated and the first trains departed. A new promise has arrived.
“In the next two months, if we can finish signing the definitive contract and go immediately, use the construction season, to do that. That’s why I told him to do it for 2018, and not for 2019,” he said. Vučić, then Prime Minister of Serbia, January 26, 2016.
The ministers were also generous in their words, so the former infrastructure minister vividly described the appearance of the station. In July 2018, it announced that the station would have better access and escalators.
However, they did not wait for the new minister. The works of the station were visited step by step. When asked about missing deadlines, he says …
“I think his impression is correct. I also had that impression. But when I went deeper, I saw that these people were working in the most correct way possible, within the established deadlines, with very good dynamics,” said Tomislav Momirovic, Minister of Infrastructure and Construction.
It was also dynamic with platforms that resemble those of European countries. Next to them are digital information panels about the schedule.
Although the train station is called “Centro”, to get from here to the city center it takes between 20 and 30 minutes by public transport. The lines that run are 34, 36 and 38A.
Passengers cannot yet heat up at a service facility, because they do not yet exist at the station or in the immediate vicinity. It can be especially uncomfortable if you are in Prokop overnight.
They announce again that it will be their turn. But when? The minister says it will take citizens a few more years to “see” the entire railway station.
“In a way we are pushing all the deadlines until the end of next year. But that’s really not realistic when we talk about the entire train station. It will take us around three years, from now, to complete. We are not talking about it. of commercialization of space but only to be fully operational, that we will no longer talk about the construction of this train station, ”says Minister Momirović.
According to him, the value of the current works is around 11 million euros, while negotiations with the World Bank are underway in the second phase, which will cost between 25 and 30 million euros.
The third stage is the construction that will be carried out by a private investor who must use the widest space of the station for commercial purposes. Only then will passengers be able to “shorten” the November days with tea or coffee while they wait for the trains.
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