Pan-European Corridor X

Pan-European Corridor X
Pan-European Corridor X
	Pan-European Corridor X highlighted in red
Major junctions
Start end	Salzburg (Austria)
End end	Thessaloniki (Greece)
Location
Countries	Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Greece
Highway system
	Pan-European corridors;

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, , , and .

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

Branches[]

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

Branch A: Graz - Maribor - Zagreb
: Budapest - Novi Sad - Belgrade
: Niš - Sofia - Plovdiv - Edirne - Istanbul via Corridor IV
: Veles - Prilep - Bitola - Florina - Igoumenitsa (Via Egnatia)

Branch A (Corridor Xa)[]

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

Branch C (Corridor Xc)[]

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[]

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

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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.

[com-4] "След 36 години АМ "Марица" най-после е готова!". plovdiv24.bg (in Bulgarian). 28 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.

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