Controlled-access highway

Citing analyses of the World Bank, Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova has suggested that Bulgaria needs to substantially increase investments in roads and to increase road tolls.

The Belokopoitovo - Kaspichan section of the Hemus motorway and the biggest road junction in Bulgaria, Belokopitovo, open for traffic on Monday.

The motorway section is 4.898 km long and the road junction will provide a connection to the roads Ruse-Varna and Koritna-Belokopitovo.

The Struma motorway section between Sandanski and Kulata is to open for traffic after 6 p.m. on Friday.

The 14,7-kilometer motorway section will be inspected by Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova and Lazar Lazarov, Chair of the Management Board of Bulgaria's Road Infrastructure Agency.

Bulgaria's Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) has allocated an additional BGN 3 M to anti-landslide fortification in two sections of the Struma motorway.

People from the western part of Romania can now easily get to Budapest or Vienna, using the new interconnection between Romania's A1 and Hungary's M43 highways.

Romanian authorities on Saturday inaugurated the 40-km-long segment of the Arad-Nadlac motorway and a new border checkpoint between Nadlac and Csanadpalota, in Hungary.

Bulgaria needs to focus efforts on the completion of the motorway ring so that traffic along smaller roads can be alleviated, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.

Asphalt is now being laid on the Struma motorway section between Sandanski and Kulata, whose completion has been repeatedly delayed.

The 15-kilometer motorway section is being built by Greek construction company Aktor.

Bulgaria's Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova has vowed that repair works at roads leading to the Black Sea coast will stop on July 1 in order to ease traffic during the peak of the summer season.

On June 7, an 8.6-km section of the right lane of the Maritsa motorway section connecting Svilengrad and Kapitan Andreevo will open for traffic.

The project was implemented with funding from the state budget under the New Construction program of Bulgaria's Road Infrastructure Agency.

The traffic on Danube Bridge between the Bulgarian city of Ruse and the Romanian town of Giurgiu will be hampered due to repair works starting on the Romanian side.

The Romanian National Company of Motorways and National Roads informed the Bulgarian Road Infrastructure Agency of the forthcoming repair works on the DN5 road.