Yordanka Fandakova

With a highly edited statement, the City Council will probably support the efforts of the Sports Ministry to raise Sofia's bid to host the Youth Olympic Games in 2024 and to modernize the sports facilities needed for the forum. At the moment the ministry's efforts to replace the facilities are undergoing a change in the management plan of the Vitosha Park.

The municipality of Sofia has learned their lesson from the repair of Graf Ignatiev Street and it is that it misses the moment for serious communication with the citizens and just the completion of the job is not enough. This is what Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandakova told Darik radio on Saturday.

The new buses to Vitosha mountain will be running from tomorrow, Simeonovski lift will also be opened, said Mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova, Focus News Agency reports.

From 20 December, trams will again run along Graf Ignatiev Street, Mayor Yordanka Fandakova announced during the inspection of the third subway beam.
 
The previous timetable will be restored, she said, and asked citizens to observe the restrictions and not to run along the track.

The repair is not over, the flooring continues, added Fandakova.

90% of the buses next year will be new and complying with the highest environmental standards, while 10 years ago the bus fleet was 20 years old on average, Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova said about the draft municipal budget for 2019, Focus News Agency reports.

The first electric buses in Sofia will be launched on the lines of the public transport today, announced Sofia Municipality.

Vehicles meet the Euro 6 standard. They will be presented to journalists at 12.00 am in the parking lot of Arena Armeec by Yordanka Fandakova, Mayor of Sofia, and China Ambassador Zhang Haizhou.

Five kilometers from the third subway line are expected to be completed in 2019, according to the financial statement of Sofia Municipality. Mayor Yordanka Fandakova presented the draft budget of the Municipality, which plans to repair part of Bulgaria Boulevard and other major road links.

Forecast of dangerously polluted air in Sofia Municipality.

Exceeding the norm of fine particulate matter is today and tomorrow. According to the site of the municipality, the most dirty is the air over the districts "Druzhba", "Hipodruma" and "Nadezhda".

Sofia Municipality is about to retreat from the strict rules on movable objects and ads, which voted only four months ago. The reason is that the text of the ordinance for this area is now seen on part of the municipal councilors too restrictive. That is why they have introduced new changes to the text in the Sofia Municipal Council, reports Mediapool. 

In 2019, the municipality will launch a pilot programme to provide partial financial support for social innovation, with a budget of BGN 100,000, Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova said at the opening of a conference on social innovation, quoted by Focus News Agency.

Individuals and organisations will have three months to submit project proposals.