foto: RAILTARGET Archive/Feasibility Study Underway for High-Speed Rail Link Connecting V4 Countries
The line is planned to run from Warsaw to Brno, where it will split towards Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest. A feasibility study is currently being prepared.
The planned construction of a high-speed railway line between the capitals of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary will not be possible without European Union funding. According to the State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport of the Slovak Republic, Jaroslav Kmeť, the technical solution in the Bratislava railway junction is important for Slovakia. "A feasibility study is currently being prepared," commented Kmeť on the social network.
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The upgrade of the high-speed railway was discussed last week by representatives of the ministries of transport, infrastructure, and construction of the Visegrad Four (V4) countries in the village of Stará Lesná in the sub-Satranská region. The line is planned to run from Warsaw to Brno, where it is to split towards Prague and Bratislava, and Budapest. "The expected line speed will be from 200 kilometers to 350 kilometers per hour on individual sections," the state secretary said.
Last December, Slovak Railways awarded the contract for the preparation and delivery of the national feasibility study of the high-speed line interconnection of the V4 countries for the line sections on the territory of Slovakia to the Czech-Slovak Association of Companies NDCON, s. r. o, Valbek SK, spol. s r.o., and Reming Consult, a. s. They undertook to deliver the study for EUR 680 thousand, excluding value-added tax, within 24 months from the effective date of the work contract, i.e., by the end of 2024.
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At the aforementioned meeting, they also discussed the liberalization of transport services in public passenger transport. According to the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on public passenger transport services by rail and road, it will not be possible to award public service contracts directly from 25 December 2023. "Apart from the exception of transport services, the aggregate of which per year does not exceed the value of 500 thousand train kilometers or the average annual value of losses for transport services contracted in this way is estimated at a maximum of EUR 7.5 million," Kmet explained. However, the regulation does not address the public tender and contractual relationship between the ordering parties of interstate lines. "That is why, at the joint meeting, we jointly sought solutions," the state secretary added.
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Source: SITA