The Subway in Sofia Proved to be not Effective Enough

Not well and poorly serviced by Sofia's public transport are not only the areas on the periphery of the city but also those that are relatively close to the center. The pride of the management of the metropolitan at Sofia municipality in the last decade - the metro, is far from beneficial for the entire capital and suburban areas, but mainly for the neighborhoods situated along it. This is due not to the good enough connection with the ground public transport.

These problems, as well as slow travel and waiting at stops, are the main reason many people still move to and from their jobs with their own cars and not with public transport. This shows a study of the team of "Vision for Sofia", which should be used in the development of a new master plan of the capital. It explored the move to places where the city's business was concentrated.

Travel time

The study shows that for most people, traveling by public transport to or from work takes an average of 22 to 32 minutes. To this is added walking from 9-13 minutes and waiting at the stop between a minute and a half and three and a half minutes. The study itself, however, states that waiting data is probably not accurate.

The analysis of the data shows that most of the surveyed parts of the city have average, good, very good or excellent service - 88%. Weak or badly served 12 per cent of them. "A precondition for choosing public transport as a way of moving people would be to improve accessibility rates for each of the stops," he said in the analysis.

Issue

It is a serious problem that the metro does not serve Sofia and the suburban areas, but only the neighborhoods through which its two operating lines pass.

"We think this is a very serious problem, and it should be...