After the earthquake, a project was started for a major reconstruction of the city, authored by Kenzo Tange, a Japanese architect, but which has not been fully implemented.
The construction is supported by earthquake-proof concrete pillars[5] and covered by a tubular platform hall.
[5] The station was originally designed for 18 million passengers per year, but this was never never fully realised, as a result five of the ten track troughs remained unused.
[6] In 2020 The EU Delegation North Macedonia funded the City of Skopje in turning a corner of its transport centre into an urban bike-parking, thus responding to the needs of a constantly growing number of cyclists.
[7] The main north–south line from Niš in Serbia to the port of Thessaloniki in Greece on the Aegean Sea (Corridor X), passes Skopje.