The first new carriages as part of the project to renovate Ukrzaliznytsia’s rolling stock will carry passengers on the flagship train as early as April 28. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Svyrydenko. “We are proceeding with the systematic modernisation of Ukrzaliznytsia’s rolling stock. This upgrade includes the delivery of 100…
Amid funding shortages, the state-owned company VSIA Latvian State Roads (LVC) is currently commissioning new road reconstruction projects only for locally critical road sections, LVC Construction Department Director Gints Alberins has said at the company’s annual Latvian road sector conference. According to him, these are sections where the road condition already threatens passability. In all…
Ukrzaliznytsia in partnership with Visa is adding six new children’s compartment carriages to its fleet. All of them will undergo major renovation, will be supplemented with educational and interactive components and adapted for comfortable and safe travel with children. The first three carriages have already undergone complete re-equipment and set off on their first flight…
The Transport Administration plans to thoroughly reconstruct Estonia’s most accident-prone intersection, the Juri roundabout in Rae Parish, so that the Tallinn Ring Road runs straight through it. The Juri interchange is a unique interchange in Estonia, where traffic passes through a large roundabout with a diameter of 390 meters. The Tallinn ring road is interrupted…
A consortium led by the US company Hill International has been awarded a 1.6-billion zloty (EUR 373 million) deal to act as the general contract engineer for the construction of a major new airport near Warsaw in central Poland The deal was announced on April 17 by CPK, the state-owned firm overseeing the wider 132…
Lithuania plans to complete the multibillion-euro Rail Baltica project, including connecting Vilnius to the international line, until the end of 2033, according to a government-planning document. The target date is outlined in a special infrastructure development plan prepared by the Transport Ministry for the Kaunas-Vilnius section, estimated to cost about 2.5 billion euros. The plan…
The metro stations on General Vladimir Vazov Boulevard – Georgi Asparuhov Stadium, Vitinya, and Gen. Vladimir Vazov – on Line 3 of the Sofia Metro are 98% complete and are expected to open in July. Sofia Mayor Vasil Terziev announced this on Facebook. Comprehensive testing of the trains is expected to be completed in May.…