It will not be possible to get to the Prokop railway station because there are not enough GSP lines, say the association "Naša mesna zajednica" and with a petition they are asking for the introduction of trolleybuses, which are three times cheaper than buses.
It was announced that the opening of the main railway station "Belgrade Centar" (Prokop) will be on October 20 of this year. It was also announced that eight office buildings will be built around Prokop. Both imply an increase in traffic.
However, currently there are too few city transport lines leading to Prokop.
That is why the civic association "Naša mesna zajednica" launched a petition "to redirect the trolleybuses on lines 40 and 41 so that they directly serve the entrance to the railway station, to acquire new trolleybuses, to extend the operating time of the existing lines 34, 38L and 40 so that to enable the arrival of passengers on early morning and late evening train departures, to redirect line 51 so that after the Mostar loop it runs to railway stations, and to reinforce lines 36 and 34 with new buses".
"We also believe that it is necessary that Belgrade Center" (Prokop), as the main railway station, be connected to other parts of Belgrade by the first metro line. This is important because the train station in Prokop is designed to be used daily by 40.000 passengers from all over Serbia. In addition, if the first metro line were to run through Prokop, then a station would be built near the University Clinical Center of Serbia and a connection with the largest hospital complex in Serbia would be established."
"Our local community" says that their demands are achievable. They remind that the last tender of GSP Belgrade for the procurement of 80 new trolleybuses was suspended in April 2022.
They say that the tender was worth 53 million euros, while based on the rebalancing of the budget of the JKP GSP Belgrade for the year 2023, the Belgrade City Assembly adopted a decision to borrow 325 million euros from the City of Belgrade for the purchase of 200 new buses.
"For one trolleybus, according to the last tender, it was necessary to allocate around 660 euros, while according to the latest calculation from the GSP budget rebalancing, the price of one bus is 1,6 million euros, which is almost three times more than the price of one trolleybus," they say. in the explanation of the petition.
They state that "the price of BMC gas-powered buses at the last tender in June 2021 was around 340 euros, and now it is planned to allocate 5 times more money for one bus."
"Since there is obviously money for the purchase of new vehicles, we demand the immediate purchase of new trolleybuses and the necessary investment in the trolleybus subsystem in Belgrade, which has been neglected and systematically destroyed for years."
The new trolleybuses, they say, would "enable better service on lines 40 and 41 that serve the railway station "Belgrade Centar" (Prokop), but also on all other trolleybus lines. Trolleybus lines 19, 21 and 22 have been shortened and run to Slavija instead of Studentski trg. Replacement buses have been running on line 21 for more than two years instead of trolleybuses, and this is happening more and more often on line 40 because there are not enough trolleybuses", according to "Our local community".
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