Yesterday, on Wednesday, we informed you about the fact that Bratislava is unlikely to be connected to the rest of Europe via a high-speed railway link. This was a statement made by MEP Jaroslav Paška at the European Parliament session on Tuesday.
Paška pointed out that European lawmakers approved the proposal on the development of a Trans-European transport network that has since been re-routed and no longer continues from Vienna to Bratislava, but instead will go through the Hungarian city of Gyor to Budapest and Ukraine as well as southeast to Turkey. The Slovak Transport Ministry reacted to this claiming that Bratislava is to be one of the cities that will be part of the high-speed rail Rhine – Danube Corridor. The transport Ministry admitted that the original proposals left the Slovak capital out from route however, they managed to push through a change in this thanks to intensive lobbying.
