Sofia Urban

For the next three days people can park for free in Sofia City Center. Sofia Urban Mobility Centre notes that for the citizens of Sofia and the guests of the city it is useful to know that in the festive 24th and 25th May the blue and green parking zone won't work.

As a rule on Sunday - May 26th, the parking zones are free.

The Urban Mobility Center invites all fans of the retro tram to take it to the capital tomorrow, May 24, on the occasion of the Day of Writing.

The favorite of local residents and guests of Sofia ancient tram will do two courses under the campaign slogan of Sofia Urban Mobility Center 'travel and read. "

Seven start-ups from all over Europe will present their ideas at Sofia's first open-air innovation initiative - Sofia Urban Challenge, reports Mediapool. 

Lyubomir Hristov, the deputy mayor of the Bulgarian capital responsible for transport, has submitted his resignation to Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandakova.

Irina Kotseva, MP from the ruling GERB party, is also to submit her resignation, the chairperson of the party's parliamentary group Tsvetan Tsvetanov is quoted as saying by daily Sega.

The transport committee of Sofia municipality approved on Monday a proposed 60 % increase in the price of public transport tickets.

Six councilors voted in favour of the increase, two were opposed, two abstained and one was absent.

All six municipal councilors supporting the increase are from the largest ruling party GERB.

The municipal company operating the public transport in Sofia has proposed to raise the standard ticket price by 60% in a bid to increase the use of prepaid travel cards.

Continuing construction works on the third line of the underground in the Bulgarian capital will cause changes to traffic, with temporary traffic arrangements entering into force in parts of downtown Sofia from Monday to 1 February 2018.