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On the route of the second railway track between Koper and Diva?a, the construction of the last, third Vinjan viaduct was completed. The Prime Minister Dr. Robert Golob and Minister of Infrastructure Alenka Bratušek. Both the prime minister and the minister assured that a parallel one will be built next to the second track.
As Minister Bratušek said in her speech, the set time dynamics of the construction are demanding, at the beginning of the mandate we re-examined and accelerated it in cooperation with all partners in the project, starting from the commitment not to promise the impossible, but to consistently demand high-quality and full of commitment from everyone involved in the realization of this ambitious project in one way or another.
That these are not just words, but actions, is proven by today's event and the pace that leads to the final goal: the completion of construction by the end of 2025, so that in 2026 the first train will be able to run on the line.
The Vinjan Viaduct is the first railway viaduct in Slovenia that was built using the cantilever construction technology. This is how the ?rni Kal highway viaduct was built. This is important above all from the point of view of the revival and professional growth of the Slovenian construction industry, which in the past already knew how to build bridges with the technology of free-standing construction, but with the collapse of large construction companies around 2008, this knowledge unfortunately largely died out, said Minister Bratušek .
Many more important milestones will be reached on the second track project very soon: in the second quarter of the year (presumably in May) all the tunnels on the second track route will be excavated. It is about 37 kilometers of tunnels, which is more kilometers of tunnels than were built on the entire highway network in independent Slovenia. Therefore, more tunnels will be built in four years than were built on the highway network in the 1930s, emphasized Minister Bratušek.
Preparatory work for Package 3, i.e. the railway and tunnel systems, will also begin soon. Part of this work will be carried out simultaneously with the construction work that is now taking place on the route, which means additional time saving, said Minister Bratušek, and at the end of the ceremonial address, she said that we can't wait to be able to drive along this route in 2026 and looked at the wonderful views of the Adriatic Sea, which are most visible from the middle of the Vinjan viaduct.
