Sustainable transport

Scheme for imposing electric vehicles provides a number of reliefs for their owners, Daily Mail writes. Electric cars will have special, green license plates. Cars with these numbers will have the right to cheaper or free parking and to drive in bus lanes.

Trolley bus drivers in the Greek capital will be walking off the job on Wednesday to attend a general assembly.

The meeting in Athens has been scheduled to take place between 12 noon and 4 p.m.

However, commuters are advised that drivers will start their final morning runs at around 11 a.m., with service expected to resume as normal from 5 p.m. onwards.

Three contracts for the supply of 137 electric vehicles for the improvement of air quality in Sofia have been signed with the Sofia Municipality, the Ministry of Environment and Water announced.

It will affect the operation of part of the metro lines in the capital Athens. They also stop trams, buses and city rail.

Sailors and port officials are also on strike. Ferries and cargo ships will not move and ports are closed.

The railway staff will be on strike in 24 hours, but their protest will start on Thursday morning.

The government will provide incentives for people, and companies, to replace old-technology, polluting cars with zero emission ones from next year, Deputy Finance Minister Apostolos Vesyropoulos said.

The incentives will come in the form of lower registration and use levies for vehicles, including company cars, Vesyropoulos told Skai radio.

Women cyclists across Turkey will go behind the wheel on Sept. 22 for the annual "Fancy Women Bike Ride" in an attempt to give more visibility to women in Turkish society and to demand bicycle-friendly cities.

The rules for electric scooters are ready. They will be equivalent to bicycles - they will be able to cycle on bike lanes or on streets that have a speed limit of up to 50 km / h.

All people aged over 16 will be legally able to drive the electric scooters. Children between the ages of 14 and 16 will only be able to ride the scooters on bike lanes.

But free repairs are not the only unusual thing about the project. Since cycling is not only a matter of lifestyle but sometimes also a necessity, especially for people who can't afford a car or to use public transport, Biciklopopravljaona volunteers, in collaboration with other associations, have also been helping refugees, asylum seekers or other poor citizens outside Zagreb get around.

A 20-year-old man managed to stop a tram on Graf Ignatiev Street in Sofia after seeing that the vehicle was not driven by anyone and was moving by inertia, bTV reported.

Restrictions on vehicles entering central Athens will be reinstated as of September 29, the Traffic Police said Friday.

The restrictions are enforced every year and are designed to reduce traffic congestion in downtown Athens.