- There are 800,000 cars in the capital, but its streets are not built for that many, Mayor Vesil Terziev reminds
- We lose 5 million a day to traffic jams and breathe 2.5 times more dirty air, GERB calculated
Why is Sofia more congested than ever and getting around now takes hours? Tens of thousands of residents of the capital, as well as the parties in the city administration, are asking themselves this question. In addition, main arteries light up in red – the sign on the navigation screen for congestion, not only in the morning and evening rush hours, but several times a day.
The reason is clear – there are already more than 800 thousand cars, the old infrastructure is not designed for many. Construction is underway on several major routes and the subway is being completed, the mayor explains Vasil Terziev. And when the products are released,
traffic will be easier
Whether pre-election – 10 days before the vote, or because the problem has increased significantly, his opponent in the form of GERB tried to call a special meeting of the SOS on Thursday to listen to Terziev about traffic. It failed due to lack of quorum.
At least 5 are currently blocking points.
It is the first one “Cherni vrah” blvd from “Hladilnika” to the ring road. On Wednesday, hundreds of cars and heavy construction equipment were stuck on the Ring Road for more than an hour. There, the traffic is a real nightmare due to the construction of Todor Kableshkov Blvd and Emilian Stanev St., as well as sewer repairs in the Dragalevtsi area. As early as this morning, traffic will be fully opened in all lanes of T. Blvd. Kableshkov”. Traffic in the area is also controlled by the traffic control center through remote control of the traffic lights, monitoring traffic in real time, explained the Metropolitan Municipality. For the Dragalevtsi region, a change in organization was requested so that construction equipment does not go around the educational centers of the region during rush hours.
For months, the second point is the brain in the direction of “Boyana” due to the closure of the bridge for inspection and possible repairs, for which the city and API argue who is responsible There, cars coming from the center of Sofia go into the community to get on the ring road and the queue is a kilometer long. On October 20, the section at Bulgaria Blvd and the Ring Road will be opened, which is one of the main measures to reduce traffic in the capital. the warden announced Vasil Terziev.
The third dot is red the traffic nightmare due to the Opalchenska upgrade. The opening of “Oplchenska” street and “Slivnitsa” boulevard is expected before the end of October, the mayor also promised.
Very soon, the project on the street “Josif Strosmeier”, whose repairs make traffic difficult in the “Ilinden” area, will also be accepted.
Permanent traffic jams are forming in the “Mladost” housing complex.which is among the fastest developed residential areas. Therefore, boulevard “Alexander Malinov” – the main artery from the community to the center and back to the direction of “Industrial Park”, where thousands of people work, is forever surrounded.
traffic control, but until then red at least in five places and no longer only during rush hour
The second hot spot is there at the intersection of “Andrei Sakharov” and “Jerusalem”. The city has already promised to make 3 connected traffic lights on “Sakharov” with “Jerusalem” and “Prof. Marko Semov”. By early December, they will be synchronized and able to be controlled remotely to prioritize public transport and clear traffic congestion in the area.
More than BGN 400,000 per year will be saved just from speeding up public transport,
because the new traffic lights will work in coordination with those on “Metropolitan Seraphim Slivenski” Street and “Tsarigradsko Shose” Blvd.
Those who move from “Mladost” 1 to the center, however, encounter a new obstacle – the local one on “Tsarigradsko shose” blvd is closed due to the construction of the subway.
For another 2 years, traffic will be difficult in the metropolitan areas “Geo Milev” and “Slatina” also because of the construction of the new subway. Until then, three main sections of Geo Milev Blvd are closed.
One of the entry articles of Sofia – find “Tsar Boris III” and the section from the ring road to Vladaya, also with heavy traffic during rush hour. From there, cars enter and leave on the side from/to Blagoevgrad and Kulata, respectively thousands of workers in the capital come and go home to Pernik and the surrounding areas.
The truth is that there are traffic jams in Sofia and they will continue to exist when there are more than 800,000 cars in the city, and this year they have increased by 70,000. Our desire is to improve the infrastructure in the coming years, when there is still traffic, so that we can walk on European streets and not break our feet on the pavements.
The traffic jams will follow while this town is developing,
Terziev also said.
But he pointed out that one of the most important things in this mandate is to make a new transport model that will help to design better infrastructure and solve transport problems.
The PP-DB-SS group will submit a report in November on the creation of a village initiative, with which
Sofia to return the placement of road signs, road signs and signals into his own hands
GERB calculated that Sofia loses BGN 5 million per day due to traffic jams and we breathe 2.5 times dirtier because of bad traffic. They accused PP-DB-SS, who did not enter the hall for the surprise pre-election meeting, “that they are directly responsible for the chaos with the organization of repairs and traffic”.
However, the attempt at emergency SOS was criticized by Vanya Grigorova from the BSP group, which saw “pre-election noise making” as an objective. They were of the same opinion from “Sinya Sofia”.
2024-10-17 19:30:00
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