Trams to return to Nis? – France offering help in preparing feasibility study

The mayor of Nis, Darko Bulatovic, and the ambassador of France to Serbia, Jean-Louis Falconi, met at the Town Hall to discuss economic cooperation.

Bulatovic said that France and the French Development Agency would support the city in preparing a feasibility study, not just for tram transport, but also for the use of land after the railway is moved.

– These are the activities that await us in the next three years. We have started the preparatory activities related to the study which should provide a response to the challenges of a new era. In realizing a project such as the construction of a waste water treatment facility, it is very important for institutions with great experience in that area to be involved, and the French Development Agency of course does have that experience. There's also the European Investment Bank, which will provide support in preparing the study, as well as financial and professional support – Bulatovic emphasized.

As Bulatovic added, the city has a proposal for several hundred hectares of land which is now unused, and which will be free after the railway is moved.

Falconi said that, at the meeting, they had also discussed archaeological sites in Nis, the waste water treatment facility, the opening of the Science-Technology Park and the cooperation between SMEs from the two countries.

In Nis, tram transport was available between November 16, 1930, and August 10, 1958.

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