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Important information for residents and guests of the capital. Today the transport in Sofia will run on holiday schedules. Trams no. 5, 6, 7, 20 and 22 tonight, trolley buses No. 1, 2, 5 and 9 and buses no. 85, 102, 213, 285 and 310 will be traversing tonight. The subway will work until 1.30 am. Night transport is scheduled.

About eight months ago, I wrote here about how well the Athens metro system generally functioned but that investment in the city's bus system couldn't come soon enough. Specifically, new buses are needed as the current fleet seems to date largely back to the early years of the new millennium - when the city hosted the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Residents of Stamboliyski will be able to travel on buses without money, both in the city and in the neighboring villages, reported NOVA TV. 

A fire that broke out on a bus on northern Athens's Mesogeion Avenue on Monday, at least the fourth incident of its kind in the past year, has drawn fresh attention to the advanced age and disrepair of capital's urban bus fleet.

Checks will continue until February 24th, reported Nova TV. 

From 24 February to 24 February there will be a traffic police operation for the control of trucks and buses. It is part of the TISPOL calendar - the European Traffic Police Network - and similar action takes place in the territory of all Member States.

Elderly man died in a trolleybus accident on the Acad. Ivan Evstratiev Geshov", reports Darik. 
 
According to the Ministry of the Interior, the man traveled in the trolley. At the stop of the Hygiene Center, the man went off the vehicle and fell. According to the police, the trolley driver did not assess the situation and departed earlier, NOVA reported.
 

In an interview with the National News Agency AGERPRES, the managing director of the Bucharest Transport Society (STB) Andrei George Creci is confident that when the public transport in the Romanian capital city will be at European levels, then the STB could think of raising the pay for a travel ticket.

30 new buses will start running along routes 72 and 84, said Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, Focus News Agency reports.

The ministries of Citizens' Protection and Transport have signed an agreement to boost security on the Greek capital's public transportation system by assigning officers of the Greek Police (ELAS) to guard duty in exchange for free transport.

Public transport services in Athens will be slowing down over the New Year's holiday, operator OASA announced.

On January 1-3 and 6, buses and trolley buses will run at less frequent intervals, according to the Sunday schedule, while on December 31, they will start pulling off Athens's streets by around 9 p.m.