Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I was in Croatia last week, and I saw:

- scarce passenger transport offer, single- track lines. No plans for any revamp, as if there was some lobby working to not to develop rail transport in Croatia.

- no passengers in trains, virtually empty passenger trains. Occasionally, a family with a child arrived, took a child for a trip with the train, just to show to the child a railway as a tourist attraction.

-no through ticketing with busses and public transport in many cities- it is a good reason for the railway being out of use.

- no passenger trains in Zadar, in Sibenik etc.

- there is a huge potential for a decent passenger service on the Sibenik- Split rail line (with a change of train direction). I was in Sibenik trying to figure out what went wrong, and, definitely, the rail terminus for a DMU railcar is too far away from the bus station and ferry terminal. I attached a short drawing, how to add a new platform, a short one, for a dmu, by adding some 500 meters of track in the direction of the Sibenik city centre. 

Cheers,

Adam Fularz

editor, economist