Mikhail Mikov: I will ask the question about the queues on Danube Bridge 2. The situation is absurd, but there is a solution – 2024-09-19 12:53:55

/View.info/ Urgent measures must be taken to increase the capacity of Danube Bridge 2

Mihail Mikov visited Danube Bridge 2 near Vidin – Kalafat on Sunday after numerous complaints from drivers that they wait to cross the border between 8 and 11 o’clock, and the queue often reaches 6-7 kilometers. During his talks with the waiting international drivers on Sunday afternoon, they confirmed the seriousness of the problem and shared that in recent months the situation has been the same both on weekdays and on weekends. The drivers strongly resented the reluctance to use the entire technical capacity of the border crossing to allow trucks to pass faster.

“At the moment there are around 350 trucks, people are waiting between 8 and 11 and it’s absurd for this to go on any longer.” It is clear that urgent measures must be taken to increase the capacity of Danube Bridge 2, to provide staff so that hundreds of people who make a living from freight transport do not stand at the foot of Danube Bridge 2″. said the representative.

“No one pays us any attention. That’s a shame. We sleep behind the wheel, we wait for half a day, and we are paid per kilometer,” shared one of the drivers. His colleagues commented that it is not excluded that there will be new incidents, like the one from a few days ago, when during a scandal at the border crossing, a nervous Turkish driver bit off the finger of a Bulgarian colleague.

“I travel every week to Hungary and in the last months it is always like this. In the beginning, it was calmer at night and we had to wait for 3-4 hours, but now it doesn’t matter if it’s day or night – we stay here for at least 8 hours and move at 300-400 meters per hour”, he complained to Mikov circulation.

The national representative undertook to ask a question in the parliament and recalled that two years ago, 17 states were allocated for border police at the point, but they were seized, and now they are commanding part of the composition of the Vidin border police on the border with Turkey. This is the reason why there is another lane and inspection booth at the border checkpoint, but they are not being used.