President Vučić presented the national strategy “Serbia 2030”: We will build 1,219 kilometers of railways

“The plan is to do 1,219 kilometers for the railways,” said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, presenting the 7th International Railway. marta u Palati Srbija nacionalnu strategiju „Srbija 2030“.

The plan is presented in ten points, as a comprehensive, most ambitious and most extensive program so far, which includes the most important parts for the development of Serbia and the acceleration of the growth of the Serbian economy, in the period until 2035. Year.

Speaking about the development of the railway, President Vučić said that he knows that the Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Aleksandra Sofronijević, thinks that this plan is pretentious and that it is not certain that we will do so much.
-I believe we will. Now we know who is working faster, who is slower, we know who we can work with and I believe that these experiences will mean a lot to us, and that people have taken courage and realized that we have to work and build honestly and responsibly, but that we have to work and build, and not for politics to stop us from building and progressing, and important infrastructure, – said the president.

Speaking about the projects that are now underway and that are under construction, the President listed the following railways:
-Zemun Polje – Airport “Nikola Tesla” – National Stadium 18.3 km, Niš – Brestovac 23.4 km. The bypass railway around Niš is very important because of the accidents we had there, we lost many lives and because of all the citizens who live there, but also because of the industry and everything – 22.5 km. The railway Sobovica – Lužnica – Batočina branch, this is very important because of the connection to the industrial zone of Kragujevac, cannot function if we do not do it – 16.2 kilometers and that is the eastern branch of Kragujevac – 16.2 km. We are going to the section of the railway Niš – Dimitrovgrad – 86 km, we are doing Belgrade – Niš, the section Stalać – Junis 23 km, Belgrade – Niš, that part from Paraćin to Trupalo near Niš, which was also the target of NATO aggression, which is what they are known for – 79.7 km and the modernization of the Šarganska Eight, in the west of Serbia – 20 kilometers. It is 289.1 kilometers,” said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, presenting railway projects from 2026 to 2030.

The President then spoke about what will be done in the field of railway reconstruction by 2030, listing the following projects, with a total length of 162.65 kilometers: Rimski Šančevi – Sajlovo – Futog (8 km), Kragujevac – Kraljevo (18 km), Knjaževac – Niš (32 km), Majdanpek – Vražogrnac (4 km), Brasina – Donja Borina – Zvornik Grad (5.6 km), Rasputnica 3 – Rgotina (27.05 km), Doljevac – Žitorađa (10 km), Sokolovica – Negotin (18 km) and Šarganska osmica (40 km).

And finally, President Vučić spoke about the projects in the plan, for the period 2026 to 2035.
-Section Velika Plana – Paraćin 61.75 km, section Resnik – Velika Plana 85.5 km. This is all a part of the great railway Belgrade-Niš, the lifeline, which is not connected to the Subotica-Novi Sad-Belgrade railway. And there the trains will go somewhere 160, somewhere 200 kilometers per hour,” the president said.
The reconstruction and modernization include the railways Pančevo – Zrenjanin – Subotica (200 km), Vrbas – Sombor (53 km) and Valjevo – Vrbnica – state border with Montenegro (209.8 km).
-The Valjevo – Vrbnica – state border with Montenegro railway is a terribly large project. We have some ideas here, 210 of the most difficult kilometers, the most difficult terrain, the most complicated for us, but terribly important, of vital importance railways and we will invest a lot of money there,” Vucic explained.
The President then mentioned the railways Ruma – Šabac – Loznica (110 km), then Zaječar – Prahovo Pristanište (74 km), which he said was of great importance for the east of Serbia, and Rimski Šančevi – Orlovat (65 km).

Speaking about the construction of the railways in the period from 2026 to 2035, the president highlighted four projects.
-Construction of the National Stadium – Obrenovac railway (18 km). I don’t have to say that Obrenovac thus becomes something like Niš and Čačak, a nodal hub for all exits to important infrastructure projects. Beli potok – Vinča – Pančevo (Danube) – 29.9 km, it is part of the total bypass around Belgrade, i.e. sectors C, D, E. Until we finish it, there will be no end to the bypass and until that big bridge near Vinča is built, which is already estimated to cost more than a billion and be magnificent, to raise the entire area, and the Gročanski region, but also the southeastern part of Belgrade. Subotica – Baja 13 kilometers and Negotin – state border to Vidin in Bulgaria 10 km. That’s a total of another 929.95 kilometers.

When 289.10 km of railways are added to the railways planned for the period until 2035 (929.95 km), a total of 1,219.05 kilometers of railways will be built.
If we achieve that, then it will be more significant and successful, and the development of Serbia much greater than it was after the Second World War. I am talking about both road and railway infrastructure, concluded Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic at the presentation of the part of the national strategy “Serbia 2030”, which refers to railways and railway infrastructure