Better Railways for Croatia
The Croatian government announces a large investment to renovate train services
Highway projects in Croatia have been successful: now the government is looking at the railway system.
Last summer I drove into Croatia on beautiful, wide new highways, but if I hadn't had a car, it wouldn't have been such an easy trip. Highway construction projects between Zagreb and Rijeka and Zagreb and Split made my trip smooth and simple.
Now it's time for the train system to get a facelift. The government's working on the National Railway Infrastructure Construction and Maintenance Programme 2007-2011 with 15 billion kuna (about US$2.5 billion) set aside: two thirds of it for new railways and a third for their future maintenance. So come next decade, we can expect to have some nice train trips around this beautiful country.
