"When I say 'Soko' I mean fast train": Vesic says Serbians will travel to Hungary in less than 3 hours by 2025

Photo: Srbija Voz

From March 20 last year, when the Belgrade-Novi Sad high-speed railway was put into service, until January 3, 2023, a total of 2,305,175 passengers chose to travel between these two cities by train, says Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesic.

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Of that number, 1,318,174 passengers used Soko trains.

Precisely because of the construction of the high-speed railway, the year 2022 represents a historic turning point in the development of Serbian railways and the operations of Srbija Voz, said Minister Vesic.

The launching of the high-speed line Belgrade-Novi Sad changed the image of the company Srbija Voz, as well as the railways in general, in the country and in the region.

"Interestingly, survey data shows that when the word 'Soko' (Serbian for, 'falcon') is mentioned - as many as two thirds of Serbian citizens' first association is the high-speed train," said Vesic.

The minister noted that we have all been hearing stories about high-speed trains forever, but President Aleksandar Vucic was the first Serbian leader to realize Serbia's decade-long dream of introducing them.

"Over 1.2 million citizens of Serbia, who used the high-speed trains between Belgrade and Novi Sad in just nine months, speak to how popular these will be when they start going to Subotica, Nis and Budapest," stressed Vesic.

Photo: Tanjug/MGSI/Predrag Mitic

He said that the construction of the section of the high-speed railway from Novi Sad to Subotica is worked on at full speed, so that as early as 2025, we can travel from Belgrade to Budapest by high-speed train in only two hours and 45 minutes.

"Next year will be a year of major investments in the railways, in the reconstruction and construction of new railways. The railways will be more and more competitive, more and more goods and people will be transported by trains, and the rail transport will get the place it deserves," Minister Vesic said.

(Telegraf.rs)