December the 20th, 2025 – A tunnel directly to Zagreb Airport is currently being planned, which will shorten and simplify all journeys significantly.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Zagreb Airport could soon get a brand new transport link with the very heart of Zagreb. Velika Gorica is set to get a new branch of the new railway line that will connect the airport terminal and Zagreb by high-speed rail, while also getting a new railway station in Pleso. This will give both the northern and southern parts of the capital city their own railway stations, according to Velika Gorica-based portal vgdanas.hr.
The view of the entrance to the city is also changing with a new railway bridge at Velika Mlaka, after which the railway will enter the tunnel towards Zagreb Airport. This is currently the shortest description of the agreed plan for the new railway line for the airport, and it could be built in the next decade, HŽ Infrastruktura revealed to vgdanas.
This is the plan contained in a document consisting of about 500 pages that has been in the making for more than a year now. The selected route of the railway connection starts from Zagreb Main Station (Glavni Kolodvor) and goes via the Zagreb Klara railway station, finally reaching Zagreb Airport.
From the Odra interchange to Zagreb Airport, planned at the existing Odra stop, a new section of the railway intended for passenger traffic will extend. The new railway will be 6.2 kilometres long, and two official stations are currently being planned on it: the Zagreb Airport – Old Terminal station and the final station Zagreb Airport – New Terminal station.
“After the Odra interchange, a railway overpass is being planned to bridge Zagrebačka Ulica (Street) in the Velika Mlaka area and the railway. After that, the railway line will descend to ground level, and in the area of the intersection of Ulica Rudolfa Fizira and Zagrebačka, the current plan is to then descend below ground level – to the so-called tunnel ramp. Approximately from the intersection of Ulica Rudolfa Fizira and Avenija Ivana Pavla II to the end of the route, i.e. the new Zagreb Airport passenger terminal, the plan is to have the railway be entirely within a tunnel which will be about 2.8 kilometres long,” they concluded from HŽ Infrastruktura.
