About 6,200 passengers boarded Trieste-Rijeka trains

(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 10 SET - Six thousand and two hundred and eleven passengers have boarded the train connecting Trieste and Rijeka, Croatia. The experimental line, activated on April 24, leaves from Villa Opicina, passes through the stations of Divaca and Pivka in Slovenia, and reaches the port city on Kvarner Bay.
    A service review, with data reported at the end of August, was presented today in Trieste during a roundtable discussion with local stakeholders of the Sustance project. The European Regional Development Fund co-finances the project through the Interreg Central Europe program.
    The international train service will run until September 30.
    So far, 366 bicycles have also been transported.
    Sustance, coordinated by the Executive Secretariat of the Central European Initiative, aims to ensure efficient and sustainable mobility for those living in rural or peripheral areas of the vast area of Central Europe shared by Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Hungary.
    "The Trieste-Rijeka line is a project with a very high cultural value. Indeed, it has reconnected territories that historical events had driven apart. From this point of view, this railway line represents a real revolution," said FVG Regional Councillor for Infrastructure and Territory, Cristina Amirante. (ANSA).