April the 5th, 2023 - One large Sisak-Moslavina County project is set to boost the public transport offer in that county, which is a bit of good news for this particular part of Croatia after the devastating earthquakes of 2020, from which it still hasn't recovered.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, at the recently held presentation of the "County transport for all" project in Sisak, Transport Minister Oleg Butkovic and Sisak-Moslavina Prefect Ivan Celjak signed the first contract on the co-financing of public passenger road transport services, which will provide local people with safe and acceptable public transport.
Butkovic arrived on a working visit to Sisak and Petrinja with the Vice-Presidents of the Government Branko Bacic and Tomo Medved, and apart from the aforementioned, they also got better acquainted with all of the details of the construction of the section of the A11 highway from Lekenik to Sisak, including the access road to the city, and the modernisation of various streets and locations.
Butkovic pointed out that this is a big event for Sisak-Moslavina County and for the ministry itself because it is the first such project that will provide safe and acceptable transportation to all students, employees and other people.
"60 million euros have been secured for this transport project, and the value of the signed contract itself stands at 2.5 million euros. At a time when many bus lines are being terminated because the carriers have no economic justification to maintain them, many people have become wary and dissatisfied, especially those living in more rural areas. With the implementation of this project, smaller, more rural places will be properly connected to larger centres,'' he said.
Butkovic added that this is the third attempt at this project in Sisak-Moslavina County, and he invited other counties across the rest of the country to implement the same. He pointed out that there is greater interest in the project in central Croatia but still invited the counties of southern Croatia to get involved.
The project covers the next two years, and the ministry recently signed a contract for the purchase of new buses. That's why Butkovic is currently actively calling on carriers to renew their fleet(s).
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