The new metro trains can run on the autopilot, but there will also be a driver

The new metro trains will be able to run on an autopilot, but there will also be a driver for more security for travelers. This was announced by Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, who showed the first train of Siemens arrived in Sofia at the new metropolitan depot on Jitnitsa Street

Third subway line of the small town theater behind the Krasno Cbad Market Center The Village in Ovcha Kupel will be put into operation in the autumn of 2019. The new depot, which will serve the trains on the line, will be completed by the end of the year

Nearly 420 million from BGN for 20 metrovlakka

A total of 20 meters will be delivered for the third subway line o. The Order was won by the "Simetro" unification for 418.3 million BGN excluding VAT. The merger includes Siemens Bulgaria EOOD, Siemens Austria AG and Nevag Poland. Thus, a metro costs nearly 21 million leva without VAT. The funding comes from European funds under the transport program

The Siemens contract was signed in mid-2015, and only a few days before the arrival of the first completed metaboulak. The following Monday will arrive the second and the third will be on August 2nd.

"The trains are very modern and have the option of driving without a driver, but for the moment they are going to run with train drivers for training. "The capacity of self-driving trains requires the purchase of special software that we will not take at this stage, as the drivers will travel with them anyway," says Fandakova

. Stoyan Bratoev, executive director of "Metropolitan"

He badured that trains running on the third line of the metro are fully in line with the flow of pbadengers. The first measure 60 meters long and the last 80 meters, because the section "Slatina" will be released and the load will be greater, explains Bratoev

"The trains do not have cameras and they are placed because There are a lot of ramps because the floor is low and comfortable and that there is no need of them, and there are special places for disabled people in the cars themselves, "Bratoev said. ] All stations of the third subway beam will be equipped with separation walls between platform trains to prevent suicide attempts in the subway, said Bratoev. He said that there was such an experience today. "A woman tried to throw herself in front of a station in one of the railway stations," said Bratoev, "the purpose of the glbad barriers is to limit such cases and to give more security. ", Said the director of the subway

Geostroy built the new dump

The new depot, located on Zhitnitza Str., In the Zhellyane garage territory, will serve the third subway line.] It is built without disturbing its A significant part of its activities has already been completed to more than 75% and will be completed by the end of the year, said Fandakova

Geometro Zemlyane, lead partner of the project, with Geostroy AD and Transremontstroy, BIAS – M ". The value of the site is 58 million BGN without VAT, and the financing comes from the Operational Program "Transport"

The metro reaches Gorna Banya in 2020

The plans are the third subway line to be put in operation in the autumn of 2019.

Currently, the implementation of the first stage of the 8 km and the first 8 subway stations on the third subway line is about 70%. At more than 3 km from tunnels, a tunnel drill, which is currently NDK subway station, has already been searched. Thursday, she will visit the next station on the Boulevard Patriarch Evtimii, said Fandakova

The second stage of the third line, of a length of 4 km, which is built of Ovcha Kupel at the ring road of Gorna Banya, must be ready in the early 2020s, the mayor of the capital declared

Jitnitsa Street will be renovated in 2019.

Jitnitsa Street and Lincoln Street will be completely renovated next year, promised Fandakova. She added that this part of Sofia – from Krasno selo to Ovcha Kupel will have an entirely new vision after one year.

Sofia Metropolitan Mayor also verified the construction of the metro station at the crossroads of Bulgaria and Geshov boulevards.