After the rehabilitation of the railway line Plovdiv - Bourgas we shall reduce the travel time between the two cities by 40 minutes, announced today Deputy Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Velik Zanchev during the groundbreaking ceremony of the railway section Straldzha - Tserkovski. It is part of the project on the rehabilitation of the whole railway line from Plovdiv to Bourgas, for which 800 million BGN have been provided by OP on “Transport and Transport Infrastructure” 2014-2020.
In the words of Deputy Minister Zanchev by 2022 the entire direction will be completed, as well as the signaling and the telecommunication systems. "During this programming period we shall ensure full interoperability of all systems in the directions from Sofia to Bourgas and from Plovdiv to Svilengrad", he added.
The railway section "Straldzha - Tserkovski" is 2 km long and the funds that will be invested for its rehabilitation amount to 4.2 million BGN. The construction completion deadline is January 2018 and the design speed of the track is 130 km/h.