Rapid transit in Bulgaria

''The third line of the metro, especially in the first phase, runs on schedule and we expect the first stage to be launched by autumn 2019'', said Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova.

Night lines of public transport will be launched in Sofia within a few months. Probably they will start April-May and will be tested for 3 months in the summer. The lines will be three and will connect different parts of the city. Soon, a new bus to Vitosha is expected to go to the city center.

On the eve of marking the 20th anniversary of the launching of the first metro section in Sofia, Metropolitan Municipality and Metropolitan organize free music and artistic performances, the press service of the Municipality announced.

A technical problem with the subway trains in the capital blocked the traffic between the stations ''Vasil Levski'' and ''Sofia University - St. Kliment Ohridski'' this morning, the press center of the Sofia Municipality announced, quoted by bTV. 

The movement was temporarily carried on another train in both directions.

The operation of Sofia metro in the section between the stations Mladost 3 and National Stadium Vasil Levski has been restored.

Trains were stopped at about 12:00 hrs after a tragic incident - a woman died after jumping on the rails and being hit by a train at the Jolio Curie metro station.

The Interior Ministry has told BNR that the woman was 46 years old.

Bomb threat interrupted the movement of underground trains on section of Sofia metro's line 2 on Tuesday morning.

An anonymous signal for an explosive device planted on Beli Dunav station was submitted to the 112 emergency telephone number.

At present, police is inspecting the signal and is not allowing passengers to the station.

A man reportedly jumped in front of an underground train in the Bulgarian capital on Monday.

The incident occurred at the Beli Dunav underground station as the man jumped in front of the train going in the direction of the city centre.

The man is believed to have not survived the impact, private NOVA TV informs.

Bulgaria would invest BGN 848 M, VAT excluded, in the first stage of the project for the construction of a third line of Sofia Metro, Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski said on Tuesday.

Bulgarian government will be allocating an additional sum of BGN 15 M for the completion of the Sofia subway. The project has been published by the Ministry of Finance, the Bulgarian National Radio reported.

Traffic on Sofia Metro has returned to normal after being temporarily halted in the section between the Central Railway Station and Serdika Station, the city hall announced on Wednesday afternoon.

Trains didn't run for about an hour on one of the busiest sections of the Bulgarian capital's underground railway system due to a "technical problem".