This video provides a detailed, visual update on the construction progress of the Sofia Metro extension through Tsarigradsko and Slatina, showcasing the status of individual stations and the tunneling machine's advancement.
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Hello, Skypint friends. In this
video I will show you what is happening with
the construction of the metro from Tsarigradsko
through Slatina in Sofia. As usual, I
will go through all the metro stations,
trying to show them from both the top and
bottom, as I have been doing in the last
reports. I have also added some maps of
drawings to the projects and I hope you find them
interesting. We start with the
metro station, which is located on
Tsarigradsko Shose. As you can see here, the
top plate is already completed. What they are
doing right now is waterproofing and
protective concrete on top of the
waterproofing itself. As you can see from the drawing, there
will be two connections that will pass on the
other side of Constantinople and which,
unfortunately, I was unable to catch. The construction company
started building them a few days ago
. They showed photos
from inside from the beginning of these construction
activities and I will try to get
inside with the drone, but as you will see for yourself,
these activities are not visible here. However,
these shots are from before
these tunnels were started, so you won't see
them themselves, but I still hope you find the shots
shots
interesting enough. I haven't been able to
sneak out of this country before. You can see
here from this side, from this side, at this level there should
be the future parking lots
of the Beto station itself, and the
metro itself will pass a little lower
below, but I guess they will
build the levels here first. concrete will come out
, then they will dig from below,
using the post from below for formwork for the
foundation, so they don't have to do this thing.
Then I turn right, turn
left. You can see the equipment here, and
somewhere here should be the beginning of the
tunnel itself, but as I say,
unfortunately I wasn't able to catch that moment here,
and I avoid flying when there are
workers. As you can see, there is no
one at the construction site at the moment.
The reason is that simply because I don't want to bother them
with the drone and cause any problems, it's not
nice to have some flying
chickens. I try not to fly during exact
working hours and to be able to show you from
all perspectives. Unfortunately, this
also means there are no workers. This
is the reason you can't see anything. Move
here. There is work going on at the construction site itself
, but during working hours. I continue
a little further towards the shaft, where
the card starts. I've shown you a lot about her
. You
won't see her in this report because she is still
inside the tunnel. As it turned out, she
managed to break through today, but I'll show you
footage of that a little further on in the video.
A look further ahead. This is actually
the place where they collected
the card and it started digging towards the
center through Slatina. They don't
dig soil here anymore, even though there are strips.
Actually, no. I think they're
still taking the soil out of here, because the
other one might still be
taking the soil out of here. I don't know why. Maybe they
could have done it earlier, but apparently it
's just more convenient for them so they don't have to
move, interrupt the line,
build new mini local landfills to
dig their holes in. We continue to the
next metro station. This was
the card the second to last time. I
couldn't show it to you here. In the next
metro station, there are shots in which she is
seen, where the great flood itself was
. Here I will try to
sneak out of a few places to show you
what is happening inside the
metro station itself. First I'll try here on
the right, where one of the
entrances to the metro station itself will be.
You see where the space for
the stairs is being formed. From here, people will enter and
exit so they can enter the
metro station. There's some water
here right now, it should be, and probably will be the
elevator shaft too, if I'm not mistaken.
Right here ahead, where you can see. And here I am
, lowering the drone down and trying to
see what's happening on this side of the
subway station. The multiplier is no longer there
, but the tape still passes here
. Here is a diagram of the
metro station itself. The business park is here on the
south side and the metro station itself,
as you can see, should be
built next to the arena, but
that's not happening yet, as far as
I know. From here, another undergrowth should start somewhere
to pass under the
boulevard, but I repeat, this
construction has not yet begun. I'll
try to look down from here as well to
show you what's happening a little
better, because it was a little impossible on the other side
. I've been successful
on this side in the past, and here you can see the machine
that distributes the tubing, as well as the
conveyor belt for the finger that
takes out the card. I'll try to look inside a little slowly and carefully
carefully
, because the opening here is quite narrow
and it's a little uncomfortable for the fins. Here is the
machine itself, I repeat, with which the
tubing is carried. They bring them in from
the first metro station that I showed you a
moment ago and they take them through the tunnel from
behind the card. You can see that the nail itself
is already mostly built up
here on the right. As you look to the left, they have
n't built just the wall here yet,
but it looks like they're still building the
top slab of the platform. I sneak her out
and we go to the next
metro station. Here I am carefully and slowly
getting out. It's a good thing the fins have
fuses, because I could easily
blow them out somewhere, but we successfully get
outside and continue to the next
metro station. Thirdly, there are also interesting
things that you will see in the video. Before
we get to the metro station itself, however,
I want to show you something else that I
always pass by and every
time I promise myself to include in the
reports, but every time I forget.
This time, there is no such thing as the
Red Flag sports complex, which is
in terrible condition and which should
also give the name to the next
metro station, as you sometimes
point out to me that it will have a new
name. This time I'm paying special attention
to this. Here is where the complex is and where the
metro station itself is located.
This will be the fourth metro station along the
route. There are no workers here either, as
you can see, so I can sneak in and take a
look. Still, I have to not
interfere with people doing their jobs. It
's interesting here because the
river, which was causing some
problems, passes very close by. This is where it had
filled up with a lot of water.
I showed you in one of the previous reports. Fortunately,
this did not interfere with the card's operation in any way
, even though there was
a lot of water inside the metro station.
Fortunately, it continued to work and reached the
next metro station, but I'll
show that in a moment. However, they have
taken precautions here and, as you can see,
they have closed the entrance so that no one can
enter, so that no water can enter from
this side. I say it again because the river is
quite close. No, you'll see her in a
moment. From this side, it is not possible to
look inside the metro station itself,
only slightly and partially, because there are many
hanging cables that get in the way. But
you still see a spot where the card
started to push out. This is a
structure that is built in each
metro station so that the card can
start being pushed forward through the
tunnel to the next metro station.
a view from above again on the
metro station itself and for a moment I'll
try to look inside it again here through
one of the technological openings. That is,
this is not a technological hole. I'm not
sure here, but I assume they'll
bring the escalators in from here and maybe
close this opening. I'm not sure,
by the way. We don't get much from
the drawings. From here I'm raising the drone to
show you how close the river is.
It passes quite close to the subway and
in fact the subway tunnel passes almost, if not in
part, here underneath it. Fortunately, there were no
problems, there was no flooding in the
tunnel itself, after the card managed to
reach the next metro station,
which you can see in the frame right now - I'll
freeze the frame for a moment, I'll stop to
show you the place where
that metal element popped out. As far as I understand,
it's some kind of metal profile. Maybe a rail
that the card hit as it passed
underneath and somehow
pushed it out with the shield in front. Hopefully there won't be
any problems, but fortunately he has already
restored the section. Here is a drawing of the
metro station itself. From here we move
forward. I'll try to sneak inside
the subway station and show you the place
where the card managed to break through and
get in. But here I will remind you again, these are
shots that were taken before the
event itself, before the card was entered
. So fortunately, or rather
unfortunately, I didn't get to
meet her. I wasn't able to take a picture of her
teeth, which I think was the last time I did it
at the first metro station,
when they were putting her together. This will be one of the
entrances to the metro station and, accordingly,
Podles. And here on the right is
where the card came out. He gives
his teeth to enter the
subway station quite successfully. This is
a shot that I managed to find on
Facebook, and fortunately we have at least some
footage so that the card can be seen
entering. Again, this is right
here on this right wall. Meanwhile,
look to the left to see a
structure currently being built
inside the metro station itself. This whole
scaffolding has to disappear so that the
abbreviation can move forward to the
next station. And we go outside
carefully so we don't hit
any propellers and I have to go and
fix my drone. May it be very
pleasant. Fortunately, we exit successfully and
continue on top to show you
what's happening there too. There's still a
lot of work to be done here, construction is underway
, and so on. But the important thing is that
the card successfully passes through the entire
tunnel. Here is the place again, the intersection,
where this metal profile had popped up
, this ace look, and on the
other side, the entrance, the exit to
the metro station. There's almost
nothing interesting up there anymore. I hope that after the
card itself passes in front of
the metro station, the final
work on the outside of the field will begin so that
traffic can be restored. The workers
can work from below, but still from
above would improve the situation a lot and
make crossing much
easier, because there is a huge
construction site here. This is where the
tubing is piled up here. It seems that once
the card starts reaching this
section, they will start delivering the tubing
from this metro station, which should
reduce the time for their delivery and
make things easier. Here we
head to the next metro station, the
penultimate one, which I will show you today
and which you will see in the next shots.
Here is the school in question, which
cracked. In one of the previous reports,
I had assumed that it was about
another school. This time I will go and
show you the whole school. Here is the second
metro station in a row,
Sulatina, and here are the entrances to the
metro station. What's interesting here is that they don't
build on the other side either. Maybe
because there is no space. Some surprises
need to be made here. The building on
the right. The metro is something that is
built once in many years. Somehow it
seemed appropriate
not to spare any minor
alienations, but apparently that's not exactly the case here.
Maybe there were some problems or he
just messed up the procedure. They have
activated. Here's this entrance on this
side, which by the way seems to be at a
much more advanced stage than
all the other entrances I've seen and
which I showed you at the metro stations themselves
before, on the sections that are
interesting, but it's also great that they work,
that they don't waste time. This
technological opening, which will
then be used to insert the
escalators, will be closed. They will
do it in absolutely all metro stations
so that they can bring in materials using
oversized equipment. And here is this entrance,
which also looks much more finished
compared to the other metro stations. I'll
turn it the other way so you can
see it. Here is the staircase, and a little
further ahead is the elevator shaft, which you can
see in the shot. I'll turn around here and
try to enter the metro station itself, a
place where the card should then
go. This will happen,
I hope, very soon, maybe within a
month. Personal guess.
The card will pass down here in the direction of the
last metro station. I'm dropping the drone
down. I was able to show you footage here quite a few
times, because fortunately there is a
large opening, which allows me to lower the
drone down without any problem. Much
easier than in the previous
metro stations. Here is what is seen here.
Just escape from these
fortifications and you will be able to see the
future metro station itself. This is
where the card should go.
You see that the nails on the left and right
are also preparing them and are not delaying. They don't wait for
the card to pass. They prepare whatever they can.
Concrete activities and works are ongoing. Below here you
can see the waterproofing and
the place where the card will bite to
continue to the last metro station. We
climb up carefully so as not to
break any iron. This is where the
card itself will go. To dig quite
shallowly. I hope the concerns of those
living here are not that there are no
serious problems and no
failures, but as you know, the
card itself is quite shallow.
Still, I hope there won't be any
problems and that the residents will be at peace.
Here is the school itself. I'll take
a tour here so you can see where
it falls, where the construction site itself is. It
's not even close. However, there are
some cracks that, according to
the Metropolitan Police, according to experts, are unrelated
. Of course, I have no way of
knowing that. The only thing I can
do is just stop by and show you
some footage of the school and the
construction site itself. there is maybe about
10 meters distance from it. I have no
idea, but that's why we turn around and
head to the last metro station,
where there are also interesting activities that
I want to show you. What's interesting here is
that on the left and right you can see a variety of different
types of buildings, including old buildings,
much newer cooperatives, and much
taller apartment buildings. Here we are
at the last metro station. Here on the left you can
see some large construction. There will
certainly be no
problem with the subway passing through it,
because they have built very serious
large foundations with this underground parking lot
underneath. Apparently, they are using the fact that
construction here will invite
construction of the metro, which will raise
prices, and they are in a hurry to get
this building done. Fortunately, I
also have the opportunity to land the drone here.
The hole they left is still
very large. Here the mole should
enter from behind where
the drone is coming from. And here we are descending so
you can see that they are also operating down here.
You see that they are currently making pearls
left and right. They did some
waterproofing. There is some water inside,
but still the metro station is
quite open at the moment. Here's a place where
the card will continue to dig, but I'll
turn back the page on why, which I'll show you a little later. I had an
assumption that the card would reach
here and be disassembled here. That's
not actually going to happen. She will continue and
dig a tunnel a little further ahead. We're sneaking
ahead so I can show you what it's all about
. Here, this soil still
needs to be removed and they will continue
with the construction of the platforms on the left and
right until the shortcut itself arrives. We
move forward to reach the
boulevard and we will move a little further,
where we will also see the military history
museum, under which the mole itself will pass
, to reach all the way down to the
river on the other side of the boulevard,
where it will also make the connection with the existing
existing
metro line, as you will see from this
drawing, which shows a tunnel that
the mole has to dig to
reach all the way to Evlogi Histo Georgiev,
where there is a shaft laid out in which
the mole will reach and there it will be
partially disassembled, and some part of
it will forever remain in the tunnel. With that,
I conclude this report. I hope you found it
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