March 15 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's transport ministry said on Thursday that over half of the construction works on the first stage of Line 3 of Sofia's subway system are already completed.
The first stage of the project envisages the construction of a 7.8 km long twin-track subway line with eight metro stations and a train depot. The total estimated cost of the first stage is 288 million euro ($355.4 million).
At end-2019, Sofia will have a total of 48 km of subway lines and 43 stations, the transport ministry said in a statement following an inspection of construction works carried out by transport minister Ivaylo Moskovski and Sofia's mayor Yordanka Fandakova.
Subway Line 3 is planned to be 16 km long, with 19 stations. When completed, it will increase the total length of Sofia subway network to 56 km of lines, with 53 stations.
Nearly 500 million euro of EU funds were invested in the first two lines of the Sofia subway during the 2007-2013 funding period.
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