Mayor of Novi Sad Zarko Micin announced at the session of the City Assembly at the end of July that part of Railway stations could be open for use in mid-September. However, it is certain that it will not happen.
Mićin told portal 021 that he contacted the Infrastructure of the Railways of Serbia in order to get information about the inspection of part of the station facility and when it could be opened, but he has not yet received feedback.
"The work that the Infrastructures of the Railways of Serbia gave to the expert firm on the stability assessment is still not finished, that is, the findings have probably not arrived yet, so we are waiting a little longer. If the analyzes show that everything is fine, they will proceed with the arrangement of that carriageway. I am still waiting for information, but I have no information on when that could be. I did everything that I personally could do, knowing how much the opening of the station in Novi Sad means to the citizens, as well as to the citizens of Petrovaradin who suffer traffic chaos because of it that the station is actually not adapted to that number of passengers," Mićin told portal 021.
He added that he, as mayor, will not put any pressure on the faster opening of the station.
"I am more in favor of checking the stability well and doing everything properly, rather than hurrying with any kind of opening. My intention was to ask with my authority to do it as soon as possible, but obviously the work is not yet completely finished. What is very important is that this work has been started and now it is only a question of when they will come with a positive finding that the facility that was used for the carriageway can be used for the passage to the platforms and adapted so that passengers can use it and "We have a functional railway station. Not like before, but fully functional so that passengers can enter the platform normally," Mićin said.
What is the potential solution?
At the end of July, Mićin talked about a potential solution for the station in Novi Sad.
"It was determined that there is one large car passage that goes out to both platforms in building D, which is some 100 to 150 meters physically separated from the building where the tragedy happened, and that could potentially be the only solution in which the station could be operational in the near future," Mićin pointed out at the session of the City Assembly on July 31.
Mićin added that for this reason, a public procurement was conducted to test the stability of facilities A, C and D, but not facility B, because facility B is still under investigation.
At that time, he also said that when the examination is completed and if it is determined that these facilities are stable and safe for use, from that moment on, the adaptation of the carriageway can be started.
Statics check
At the end of July, the checking of the static part of the Railway Station building in Novi Sad began.
Wing D and wing A are the subject of a stability check, i.e. an Elaborate on the assessment of the state of the structure.
That job was won by a consortium of bidders led by the Institute for Testing, Condition Assessment and Rehabilitation of Structures from Novi Sad. The group that will analyze the stability of part of the building consists of Axis Construction Bureau from Sremska Kamenica and Geomehanika from Belgrade.
In total, they will receive 17,5 million dinars for the assessment.
The total estimated value for the analysis of the stability of the entire building, i.e. both wing B and wing C, is 30 million dinars.
The lot, which would include an assessment of the condition of wing C and wing B, in which the canopy was located, was estimated at 12 million.
Only one bidder
The consortium that applied for this job was the only bidder, but it was not ready to commit to the work of checking the wing whose part collapsed, but applied only for the lot that includes the other two wings of the station. He should complete the inspection of the other two wings within a period of no longer than 60 days from the day of introduction into the business.
The director and owner of the Institute, which leads the consortium, is Vlastimir Radonjanin, otherwise a professor of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geodesy at the Faculty of Technical Sciences.
FTN originally concluded a contract to check the statics of the entire station building, but that contract was terminated and none of FTN's experts allegedly entered the building, because they did not receive a permit.
Source: 021
