Motorways in Bulgaria

The Ministers of Regional Development and Public Works Petya Avramova and Transport, Information Technologies and Communications Rosen Zhelyazkov will find the newly built Kresna - Sandanski section of the Strouma highway, which is 23.6 km long, the press office of MRDPW announced.
 

BGN 1,349,856,000 will be allocated for the construction of the Hemus motorway, said Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Petya Avramova at the weekly government meeting, quoted by Focus News Agency.

From 9:30 am to 4:00 pm the traffic in the "Topli dol" tunnel of ''Hemus'' Motorway in the tube to Varna will be limited.

Due to a tunnel technical survey, the flow of cars will be redirected to the Sofia tube, where the traffic will be two-way, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

Border police officers at Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint caught three Iranians who tried to enter Bulgaria with false Israeli passports on October 31, Border Police spokesperson Lora Lyubenova said, reports Focus News Agency. 

From 9 am. to 22 pm. today will stop traffic on the road Sofia - Pernik section between the station ''Vladaia'' to the junction of ''Gorno Dragichevo'' due to a repair of the asphalt reported bTV.

As an alternative bypass route between Sofia and Pernik, the third-class road ''Suhodol'' - ''Malo Buchino'' - ''Golyamo Buchino'' - Pernik can be used.

Trakia Motorway in the section of Pazardzhik on 23rd of October remains closed for traffic in the direction to Sofia due to a road accident with an overturned lorry with Turkish registration. A long queue of waiting vehicles was formed. The by-pass route is via the Tsalapitsa junction via Pazardzhik. The driver was injured and taken to hospital, BNT. 

Sofia. The Road Infrastructure Agency announced the signing of the engineering and construction contract for 1.4 km of Struma motorway after the tunnel of Zheleznitsa in the direction of Krupnik. The contract is worth BGN 22.1 million. PST Group has 120 days to draft the project and 480 days for construction.

Pazardzhik. 18 illegal migrants have been detained near Trakia motorway's 64th km after early this morning a local resident reported that he spotted the group in a forest area next to the motorway, the Ministry of Interior said. The police found 14 men and 4 children with no identity papers.

Due to bumps on the road of Trakia highway in the section between Chirpan-Stara Zagora on Monday a limit of 90 km / h is introduced, Road Infrastructure Agency announced. The section is 40 kilometers long and was put into operation in 2007.

In this area potholes were formed in the right lane nearly a year after the road was released.

Sofia. On the Bulgarian-Greek border, there is heavy truck traffic in both directions on Kulata checkpoint, according to Border Police data as of 8.00 am.
On the border with Turkey, there is heavy truck traffic from Bulgaria on Kapitan Andreevo and Lesovo.