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Pan-European Corridor X | |
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Major junctions | |
Start end | Salzburg ( Austria) |
End end | Thessaloniki ( Greece) |
Location | |
Countries |
Austria Bulgaria Croatia Greece Hungary North Macedonia Serbia Slovenia |
Highway system | |
The Corridor X is one of the pan-European corridors. It runs between Salzburg in Austria and Thessaloniki in Greece. The corridor passes through Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia, and Greece. It has four branches: Xa, Xb, Xc, and Xd.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has given loans to support infrastructure improvements along Corridor X. [1]
X: Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Belgrade - Niš - Skopje - Veles - Thessaloniki.
Corridor Xa runs between Graz, Austria and Zagreb, Croatia through Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria.
Corridor Xc follows the route Niš - Sofia - Plovdiv - Edirne - Istanbul.
The road in Serbia from Niš to the Bulgarian border nearby Dimitrovgrad is recently upgraded to a motorway standard. The construction works in all sections are completed on November 9, 2019. [2]
In Bulgaria, I-8 road connect Sofia with the Serbian border, but Kalotina motorway is planned to supersede it. Currently the transit traffic has to pass via the Sofia Ring Road, but a new bypass Northern Speed Tangent is under construction since 2015 [3] and is expected to be completed in 2016. Trakia motorway (A1) runs from Sofia to Chirpan, where Maritsa motorway (A4), completed in October 2015, [4] branches off to Turkey.
In Turkey, Otoyol 3 motorway runs from Edirne to Istanbul.