The Sofia’s third future metro line, will cover 50% of the entire city transport in Sofia, Stoyan Bratoev, Executive Director of Metropolitan EAD said, during an interview for FOCUS News Agency.
For this project, on 28 September the company signed six of the contracts – five contracts for construction and one with the supervising company that will be providing the engineering consultation. By the end of November Metropolitan should initiate the contract agreement so that the 2019 deadline could be met.
The length of the new metro line is 16 km and cover 16 stations, and soon will be launched the the construction of seven stations start one more by next spring.
Relating to financing issue, under the EU’s Operational Programme Transport and Transport Infrastructure 2014-2020 it has provided enough funding for the successful completion of the entire third metro diameter. ”There is additional financing provisioned by the Sofia Municipality, as all major projects have compulsory co-financing from the municipality or the state. This funding will be absorbed during the construction so that we finish the third metro diameter by the end of 2019,” Bratoev said.
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