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A new service for the sharing of electric scooters is presented in Sofia. It is in support of the growing interest in alternative methods of transportation in the city and is part of the strategy to improve air quality.

Mounting of the stands begins on Monday, reported NOVA TV. 

200 free parking spaces for bicycles, drones, mopeds and scooters in Sofia. Putting the stands will start as early as next Monday.

So far, the envisaged locations for free parking of two-wheeled vehicles are around Largo, at ''Moskovska'' Street and ''Dondukov'' Blvd.

Electric scooters will only be able to be rented if registered and with a speed limit. Experts from the State Agency for Road Traffic Safety held the first of a series of meetings announced with local authorities about the forthcoming amendments to the Road Traffic Act to regulate the use of such vehicles.

The delivery riders who, rain or shine, rush about with our orders, risking their lives on badly maintained mopeds for the lowest wages, are a symbol of our time.

Last year, for every new vehicle purchased five were second hand, more than ten years old as well, according to the Traffic Police, according to the daily Dnevnik. Total fleet in the country has grown by 306,421 vehicles, vans, minibuses, trucks, buses and motorcycles. Among them the brand new are 39 094. Manufactured more than ten years ago are almost 200 thousand motor vehicles.

A Thessaloniki misdemeanors court yesterday handed a 10-month suspended prison sentence to a 43-year-old man who was allegedly caught masturbating at a bus stop near a school in the northern port city's Ambelokipi neighborhood shortly after the end of school hours.

Delivery workers and couriers are going on strik on Thursday to protest low wages, according to a video posted by a group called the Workers Driving on Mopeds on YouTube, and posters on walls throughout the capital.

Workers say they are underpaid and that most have no insurance.