European Union Metro Station

European Union Metro Station (Bulgarian: Метростанция „Европейски съюз“; Metrostantsiya „Evropeyski sayuz“) is a station on the Sofia Metro in Bulgaria. It opened on 31 August 2012. Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov and the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso inaugurated the new section of the Sofia Metro, which was funded with EU money. Barroso expressed his delight that the metro station was named after the European Union.[1][2]

European Union
Coordinates42°40′46.43″N 23°19′17.56″E
Owned bySofia Municipality
Platformsisland
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typesub-surface
Platform levels2
Other information
Station code2979; 2980
History
Opened31 August 2012 (2012-08-31)
Previous namesSt. Naum; Hemus
Services
Preceding station   Sofia Metro   Following station
toward Vitosha
M2 line
toward Obelya
M2 and M4 lines
All stations are wheelchair accessible
Moderno predgradie
(proposed)
Obelya
Lomsko shose
cont. as M2
cont. as M4
Slivnitsa
Beli Dunav
Lyulin
Nadezhda
Zapaden Park
Han Kubrat
Vardar
Knyaginya Maria Luiza
Konstantin Velichkov
Central Railway
Opalchenska
Lavov most
↖Serdika↘
↙Serdika II↗
NDK
SU St. Kliment Ohridski
European Union
Vasil Levski Stadium
James Bourchier
Joliot-Curie
Vitosha
G.M.Dimitrov
 Musagenitsa
 Mladost 1
M1
Aleksandar Malinov
Mladost 3
Akademik Aleksandar
Teodorov - Balan
Inter Expo Center –
Tsarigradsko shose
Business Park Sofia
Druzhba
 Iskarsko shose
Sofiyska Sveta gora
 Sofia Airport
Detailed track map
line end
-8'
 Vitosha
 
↑Opened 2016↑
-6'
 James Bourchier
-4'
 European Union
built 1981
opened 2012
Perlovska
-2'
 NDK
built 1981
opened 2012
Serdika
M1 to Slivnitsa/Business Park Sofia
 
0'
 Serdika II
Vladayska
2'
 Lavov most
3'
 Central Railway Station
5'
 Knyaginya Maria Luiza
BDŽ National Rail
to Pernik-Kulata/Kyustendil
BDŽ National Rail
to Dragoman/Radomir/Bankya
00'
Future extension
 
00'
Ilyantsi branch
Lev Tolstoy
Svoboda
Iliyansko shose
Ilyantsi
Ilyanysi branch end
7'
 Han Kubrat
Suhodolska
9'
 Nadezhda
11'
 Beli Dunav
13'
 Lomsko shose
↑Opened 2012↑
 
15'
 Obelya
Kakach
Moderno predgradie
(proposed)
National Rail
to Dragoman/Radomir/Bankya
 
↑Opened 2003↑
 RED line
to Depot
 
↓Opened 1998↓
-13'
 Slivnitsa
-11'
 Lyulin
-8'
 Zapaden Park
Suhodolska
National Rail
to Pernik-Kulata/Kyustendil
-6'
 Vardar
-4'
 Konstantin Velichkov
 
↓Opened 1999↓
Vladayska
-2'
 Opalchenska
 
↓Opened 2000↓
0'
 Serdika
Serdika II
M2 to Obelya/Vitosha
 
 
↓Opened 2009↓
3'
Perlovska
5'
 Vasil Levski Stadium
8'
 Joliot-Curie
WTC
Novachitsa
10'
 G.M.Dimitrov
12'
 Musagenitsa
Darvenishka
14'
 Mladost 1
00'
M1 to Business Park
 
00'
 
↓Opened 2015↓
 
16'
 Aleksandar Malinov
18'
Banishka
20'
 Business Park Sofia
Mladost branch end
00'
 
↓Opened 2012↓
 
16'
 Mladost 3
18'
 
↓Opened 2015↓
20'
 Druzhba
23'
 Iskarsko shose
National Rail
to Ihtiman/Karlovo
25'
 Sofiyska Sveta gora
27'
 Sofia Airport
Terminal 2
Airport branch end

History

As the Sofia underground network was planned in the late 1970s, the station, along with the NDK Metro Station, was originally built in the early 1980s, along with the building of the National Palace of Culture.[3] The original project name of the station was "Hemus" (the name of the large hotel next to the station); during the building of Line 2 of the Sofia Metro, it was planned to be called "Sveti Naum" (as it is located at the intersection of the Cherni Vrah and Sv. Naum boulevards). Shortly before the opening of the station, the city council (dominated by the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party) controversially voted to change the name to "European Union".[4] As the timing was so close to the opening of Line 2, many of the maps in the trains still retained the name "St. Naum" even after station was opened to the public.[5]

Interchange with other public transport

Location

The European Union Metro Station is situated nearby the Earth and Man National Museum and City Center Sofia.

References
  1. Sofia Expands Its Metro, Barroso Pleased, Novinite.com, 31 Aug 2012. Retrieved Dec 2012.
  2. Barroso: I'm glad you named a metro station adter the EU Sega.bg (in Bulgarian), 1 Sep 2012. Retrieved Dec 2012.
  3. "EU" Metro Station - Todor Zhivkov made the first dig before the EU even existed, btv, (in Bulgarian), 30 Aug 2012. Retrieved Dec 2012.
  4. Next Station: European Union, Dnes.bg (in Bulgarian), 14 Jun 2012. Retrieved Dec 2012.
  5. Where is "EU" Station? Archived 2013-01-15 at Archive.today, BNT (in Bulgarian), 2 Sep 2012. Retrieved Dec 2012.

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