Pan-European Corridor X

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Pan-European Corridor X
Pan-European corridor X.svg
Pan-European Corridor X highlighted in red
Major junctions
Start end Salzburg (Austria)
End end Thessaloniki (Greece)
Location
CountriesFlag of Austria.svg  Austria
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia
Highway system

The Corridor X is one of the pan-European corridors. It runs between Salzburg in Austria and Thessaloniki in Greece. The corridor passes through Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia, and Greece. It has four branches: Xa, Xb, Xc, and Xd.

Contents

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has given loans to support infrastructure improvements along Corridor X. [1]

Branches

X: Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Belgrade - Niš - Skopje - Veles - Thessaloniki.

Branch A (Corridor Xa)

Corridor Xa runs between Graz, Austria and Zagreb, Croatia through Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria.

Branch C (Corridor Xc)

Corridor Xc follows the route Niš - Sofia - Plovdiv - Edirne - Istanbul.

The road in Serbia from Niš to the Bulgarian border nearby Dimitrovgrad is recently upgraded to a motorway standard. The construction works in all sections are completed on November 9, 2019. [2]

In Bulgaria, I-8 road connect Sofia with the Serbian border, but Kalotina motorway is planned to supersede it. Currently the transit traffic has to pass via the Sofia Ring Road, but a new bypass Northern Speed Tangent is under construction since 2015 [3] and is expected to be completed in 2016. Trakia motorway (A1) runs from Sofia to Chirpan, where Maritsa motorway (A4), completed in October 2015, [4] branches off to Turkey.

In Turkey, Otoyol 3 motorway runs from Edirne to Istanbul.

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References

  1. "Railway Gazette: Corridor X funds awarded" . Retrieved 2010-10-31.
  2. "Mission accomplished: Corridor 10 officially released for traffic today VIDEO/PHOTO".
  3. "The Construction of North Speed Tangent Starts up". RIA. 18 February 2015.
  4. "След 36 години АМ "Марица" най-после е готова!". plovdiv24.bg (in Bulgarian). 28 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.

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