Sustainable transport

The average taxi, school bus and minibus fares have been increased significantly at a Transportation Coordination Center (UKOME) meeting on Aug. 27.

Electric vehicles in Europe will increase dramatically in the coming years. 214 electric vehicle models will be available in the European markets in 2021, up from about 60 in 2018. It is expected that by 2025 there will be over 330 available electric vehicle models .

Restrictions on vehicles entering downtown Athens have been lifted on Monday. The free circulation of vehicles will last until September 29, according to the Traffic Police.

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

BDZ put its timetable on Google maps, the state railway carrier announced. From now on, when people are setting a specific route on the territory of Bulgaria on the Internet platform, travel directions for train travel will also provided, which expands the possibilities for choosing the right means of transport.

There will be no restrictions on vehicles entering central Athens as of Friday and through September 29, the Traffic Police said Thursday.
The restrictions are enforced every year and are designed to reduce traffic congestion in downtown Athens.

The three companies that serve the 29 public buses in Plovdiv alerted that the city may remain without public transport.

Carriers said they have accumulated debts to fuel suppliers and are operating at a loss, so they demanded an increase in the municipal subsidy.

You can see more in Antoaneta Chakandrakova's report and the operator Anton Marchev.

Spark, a new car-sharing service, entered the Romanian market offering local customers electric cars to drive themselves and use over the desired period of time, Economica.net reported.

Spark was set up in Lithuania in 2016 by Lithuanian entrepreneurs, after which the Bulgarian entrepreneurs joined in 2017.

There will be no increase in prices for the paid parking areas in the capital.  This was stated by journalists Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Transport and Tourism Zafir Zarkov.

In today's session, the municipal councilours adopted the report on a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan in the capital.

A commuter stands outside a closed Athens metro station on Friday during a work stoppage by employees attending a general assembly meeting. The walkout, from noon to 6 p.m., in conjunction with a pause on the tram from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., put pressure on city buses as temperatures soared to 36 degrees Celsius. [Intime News]

New buses of the line 280 and 85 of "Metropolitan City Transport", using natural gas and which meet the requirements of Euro 6 will be launched in the capital reported Econ.bg

,,For 5 years we renovated 90% of all city buses on line and reduced 2.5 times harmful emissions from public transport'', said Yordanka Fandakova, Mayor of Sofia.