Sofia Public Transport

The Google Maps mobile application now provides real-time information on the timetable of public transport in Sofia, Vladislav Panev, the deputy from "Democratic Bulgaria - We Continue the Change", announced in his Facebook post. From a discussion below the post, it is clear that the functionality has been available for quite some time, but has not been reported.

Romanian pickpockets have infested Bulgaria recently. For the first time the police had spotted them at the start of the pandemic. Then they were just on a "guest tour." Late last year, however, they came for a longer time, even renting a flat in Sofia, Nova TV reported.

There will be no overtime vehicles on the lines of public transport in Sofia on New Year's Eve, as in the previous years.

The Center for Urban Mobility of Sofia Municipality announces that on December 31st the city transport in Sofia will run with the usual schedule, and there will be no night lines.

The new 52 electric buses which  Sofia Municipality will buy will be two types.

30 of them will be 5.5 to 7.5 meters long and the remaining 22 will be between 7.6 and 9.6 meters long. The shorter ones will have about 25 seats and the longer ones will have 60 seats for passengers. The information was announced on the social network by the Deputy Mayor of Sofia, Doncho Barbalov.

The construction of a new street in the Ovcha Kupel district of Sofia began because of the construction of the subway. The beginning of the construction of "Central" Street will be opened by the Deputy Mayor of Sofia Municipality, Doncho Barbalov.

91% of Sofia citizens like their city, while 57% believe that the capital is becoming a better place to live. This shows a representative poll of more than 2,500 people conducted by Alfa Research. It is part of the large-scale municipal initiative "Vision for Sofia", which should outline how the city will develop until 2050, the newspaper "24 hours" writes.

How will you react if we tell you that Sofia has the capacity to be the home for an additional 1 million people?

Modernization of 14 stations and 6 stops is planned, and those with national funding will be 25, reported NOVA TV. 

Two new stations will be built by the end of 2020. This is the Obelya station in Sofia, which will have connection with the metro and the new Kostenets station.

About 90% of the construction works of the metro station from Line 3 of the metro "Bul.Bulgaria" are done. Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova and the Executive Director of Metropolitan EAD Prof. Stoyan Bratoev checked the progress of the site. Finishing works are currently under way.

On 4th of December the ticket for all public transport lines will cost 1 leva, due to the high levels of fine particulate matter in the air in Sofia. The measure "green ticket" is introduced by the municipality, after the levels of the main pollutant in Sofia reached 7 times the norm according to the official data. High values ​​of fine particles were found in 16 other cities in Bulgaria.