Further capital of 16 million leva had been made available for Bulgaria’s railway infrastructure, Transport and Communications Minister Petar Moutafchiev said, as quoted by Focus news agency.

Moutafchiev said that the reforms and the measures introduced to Bulgaria’s railway had proved ineffective. Nearly two-thirds of the railways in the country were in bad condition, Moutafchiev said. The poor state of the infrastructure had led to a number of railway accidents in the past few months.

Eighteen million leva had been invested in repairing passenger coaches, Moutafchiev said, as quoted by Focus.

Another programme to repair cargo carriages, worth 41 million leva, would also be launched, he said.

Bulgaria railways’ main priority in the next few years was to speed up transportation, Moutafchiev said.

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