Toll bridges

Sofia. There is heavy traffic of trucks exiting Bulgaria at Kulata, Kapitan Andreevo and Danube Bridge - Ruse checkpoints, Border Police told Focus News Agency at 06:00 am this morning. Traffic at the borders with Serbia and Macedonia is normal.

Sofia. There is heavy traffic of trucks exiting Bulgaria at Kulata, Kapitan Andreevo and Danube Bridge - Ruse checkpoints, Border Police told Focus News Agency. Traffic at the borders with Serbia and Macedonia is normal.

Due to heavy snowfall and storm wind the traffic on Trakia Motorway in the section from Karnobat to Bourgas is stopped, and in the section between Yambol and Karnobat is limited for vehicles above 12 tons, the press center of the Road Infrastructure Agency announced.

Vidin - Calafat Danube Bridge (between Bulgaria and Romania) will be temporarily closed to all vehicle traffic, in both directions, from 13:00 to 14:00 on 18th of October, the press center of the Ministry of Interior announced, quoted by BNT. 

The closure is required due to routine technical maintainance of the bridge, Border Police explains.

The truck queue at the  Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Turkish border has reached 7 kilometers, the Bulgarian Border Police reported, quoted by BNR.

The trucks are waiting to exit the country. At Lesovo checkpoint, the queue is about a kilometer-long.

Bulgarian and Romanian border authorities have agreed to open a permanent third lane for trucks at the exit of the country at border cross checkpoint Danube Bridge 2.

In order to alleviate traffic, vehicles from countries outside the EU will be processed separately.

Border police officials of Bulgaria and Romania will meet near the city of Vidin on Wednesday to discuss the long queues of trucks lining up to cross the Danube Bridge 2 which connects the countries.

Tensions surfaced on Tuesday as truck drivers blocked the bridge, saying they had waited for many hours to pass.

Road haulage workers have staged roadblocks on Danube Bridge 2, connecting Vidin in Bulgaria to Calafat in Romania, private NOVA TV broadcaster reports.

Protesters have moved to vent their anger at Romanian authorities, saying it takes hours to process their papers on the Romanian side.

There is heavy truck traffic at the exit of the Bulgarian - Romanian border. All ferry points are not operating due to the ice flow, announced the Interior Ministry.

This is why there are long queues of vehicles waiting to enter Romanian territory. The queue at Danube Bridge - Vidin is about 14 km, while the queue at Danube Bridge - Ruse is about 13 km.

The government is considering how to alleviate traffic along Danube Bridge near Vidin since kilometre-long queues keep on forming constantly.

On Saturday, there was a 12-km queue and a ban on vehicles weighing over 12 tonnes had to be introduced along the road Botevgrad - Vidin due to difficulties in the operation of the border cross checkpoint.