Traffic congestion

Bulgaria's national weather service has issued yellow code alert for the country's entire territory over a potential risk of ice on the roads and strong winds along the Black Sea coast on Sunday.

The yellow code alert is the lowest degree of potentially hazardous weather on the three-degree scale of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH).

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry has advised people traveling to Greece to avoid the Kulata and Makaza border crossing points due to the kilometers-long queues of vehicles.

Traffic on the roads and motorways leading to the Bulgarian-Greek is intensive due to the decision of a large number of people to head for Greece for the four non-working days until September 22.

After a six-year hiatus and renovation, an old border crossing between Serbia and Hungary at Horgos is now operational again, Tanjug has reported.

According to the report, this is "a move that will certainly ease congestion at the other border crossings between the two countries during the tourist season."

Recently named as the world's second worst city in terms of stop-start traffic, congestion-rich Istanbul can become extremely hard to move around not only for vehicles, but for pedestrians, too.

Hundreds of people, who took the streets to enjoy the sunshine on April 18, jammed an overpass of a metrobus stop in the ?ncirli neirhborhood.

An impressive traffic jam has been formed along the Struma highway close to Dupnitsa as more and more cars are heading to Greece, as announced by the Bulgarian National Radio.

The line of vehicles has been formed on account of the increased traffic and the construction works in the final stages of the Struma highway project.

Zipcar, a U.S.-based car rental company, has entered the Turkish market in cooperation with a prominent auto firm to provide car-sharing services to Istanbulites.

Speaking at a press conference, Massimo Marsili, the firm's head of European operations, said on April 2 Zipcar was excited to enter the Turkish market.

The Turkish government’s new economic plan stipulates a policy that would introduce a fee on motor vehicles in metropolitan city centers, including Istanbul’s Taksim neighborhood.

BELGRADE - There is no major congestion at the border crossings Batrovci, Horgos, Sid, Kelebija, Jabuka, Gostun and Spiljani.

This information was released by the interior ministry's press office on Monday.

Long queues of vehicles that formed at border crossings over the weekend were largely ascribed to this being the last weekend in July, at the peak of the tourist season.

A truck carrying cement rolled and tipped over on Istanbul’s TEM highway early July 4, turning the city’s morning commute into traffic chaos.

The accident occurred at around 7 a.m. in the city’s Bağcılar district as two lanes were closed, causing a traffic jam that stretched across the European side of the metropolis.

Several tonnes of beer have spilled causing a traffic congestion on the main road between Bulgaria's cities of Plovdiv and Pazardzhik after a truck toppled over, Wednesday.