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.

Pan-European Corridor X
Pan-European Corridor X runs across southern Eastern Europe from Austria to Greece
Pan-European Corridor X highlighted in red
Major junctions
Start endSalzburg (Austria)
End endThessaloniki (Greece)
Location
Countries Austria
 Bulgaria
 Croatia
 Greece
 Hungary
 North Macedonia
 Serbia
 Slovenia
Highway system

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has given loans to support infrastructure improvements along Corridor X.[1]

Branches

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X: Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Belgrade - Niš - Skopje - Veles - Thessaloniki.

Branch A (Corridor Xa)

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Corridor Xa runs between Graz, Austria and Zagreb, Croatia through Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria.

Branch C (Corridor Xc)

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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.

References

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  1. ^ "Railway Gazette: Corridor X funds awarded". Retrieved 2010-10-31.
  2. ^ "Mission accomplished: Corridor 10 officially released for traffic today VIDEO/PHOTO".
  3. ^ "The Construction of North Speed Tangent Starts up". RIA. 18 February 2015.
  4. ^ "След 36 години АМ "Марица" най-после е готова!". plovdiv24.bg (in Bulgarian). 28 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.

See also

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