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The general meeting of the Arterial railway for Europe initiative dispute on TEN-T 17

Dopravoprojekt, a.s. Company Bratislava became a general partner of the third international general meeting of the Arterial railway for Europe initiative, which holds this week in Bratislava and Vienna. The initiative enforces rapid rebuild-up the whole Paris – Bratislava / Budapest railway axis to the high-performance railway track for passengers and goods transport, as Petra Pauerová, the manager for communication of Doprastav Company, informed. The General meeting will inform attendees on priority of the TEN-T 17 project, whereas it pays partial attention to the over-border railway connection between Austria and Slovakia and concrete projects to fortify the railway junction TEN-T Bratislava and Vienna.

The Arterial railway for Europe in the railway corridor from Paris via Strasbourg, Munich and Vienna to Bratislava is situated between the Northern Sea and the Mediterranean Sea and it is the main axis from eastern to western of Europe. Cities, regions and business chambers along the Paris– Budapest railway axis established the Arterial railway for Europe initiative in 1990 aimed at fast modernization of this connection. Modernization of the railway line is necessary condition for economy, political and cultural integration of eastern and western Europe. Bratislava has been a member of this initiative since year 2007.

Dopravoprojekt, a.s. is the designer of Bratislava Suburb – Bratislava Petržalka stations railway connection in the frame of TEN-T by the tunnel line of 6.43 kilometres length under the city centre and under the bed of the Danube River as well as the designer of connection between Bratislava airport to railway structure of the city on Bratislava site. In December last year deputies of the city authority approved amendments to the city planning scheme of Bratislava, which make projection of the Railway connection of TEN-T corridors project with the airport and the railway network to the city planning scheme. Realization of the project is counted on the period of years 2010 – 2015 according to the timetable of the project preparation, so that inhabitants of Slovakia and Bratislava will have high quality connection with Europe involving the city transport and solution for mass urban transportation.

 
 
Autor: SITA - Slovak News Agency, Dátum 27.01.2009