Within a month Bulgaria will open the first project funded under OPTTI 2014 - 2020

Another metro station and 1.3 km of new metro lines will be put into operation by the end of July, said the Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Ivaylo Moskovski during an inspection of the project on the extension of the second metro diameter. The new section with one metro station is completed and currently testing of all equipment and systems along the track is being carried out.

"During the realization of this part of the project we had to apply flexibility to provide the necessary funds under Operational Programme "Transport ", said Minister Moskovski and added "We divided the project into two parts, the one was funded within the old programming period and the second phase is funded under OP "Transport and transport infrastructure".

The expected effect after the launch of the new track is to increase passengers using the metro to more than 20 000 passengers per day. Thus, the total number of the people traveling in a working day will reach 350 000.

Contractor of the project "Extension of Line 2 from „James Bouchier" metro station to "Vitosha" metro station" is “Metro Cherni Vrah - 2013". The total funding under both programs is  at the amount of slightly over 41 million BGN, 19.5 million BGN of which is provided under OP "Transport 2007-2013” and 22.1 million BGN under OP "Transport and transport infrastructure 2014 – 2020”. After the completion of the project the total length of the metro shall reach 40 km with 35 metro stations.