Traffic congestion

Restrictions on vehicles entering downtown Athens have been lifted on Monday. The free circulation of vehicles will last until September 29, according to the Traffic Police.

The restrictions are enforced every year and are designed to reduce traffic congestion in downtown Athens.

There will be no restrictions on vehicles entering central Athens as of Friday and through September 29, the Traffic Police said Thursday.
The restrictions are enforced every year and are designed to reduce traffic congestion in downtown Athens.

A car crash happened early this morning on Trakia Motorway. The traffic jam is few kilometres long, Darik Radio warned.

The incident is in the area of ​​the exit to the village of Tsalapitsa in the direction to Plovdiv. Information taken from drivers on social networks is that there aren't seriously injured people, only material damage.

Kilometric traffic jams and waiting for hours at the Kulata border checkpoint, which are repeating each year during the summer season, forced the Interior Ministry to prоvide more people and mobile teams on site in order to support the work process.

At the moment there are queues only at the crossing point, but the processing of cars takes a few minutes.

The capitals of three neighbors of Bulgaria are among the ten cities in Europe with the greatest traffic congestion. These are Istanbul, Bucharest and Athens, with the first two cities ranked second and third in 2018, only behind Moscow. The Greek capital is in 7th place, ahead of Rome, Warsaw and Ekaterinburg.

The one-day sea that the inhabitants of Kardzali and the region practiced during the summer months has become a mission impossible. Although the nearest beaches of the Aegean Sea are less than 80 km away, fewer Kardzalian people have the courage to get into the car to spend a few hours on the seashore.

Traffic jams are possible, reported NOVA TV. 

On Tuesday, due to the repair of the ''Hemus'' Motorway, the traffic will be redirected to one strip in the direction of Varna between the 28th and the 31st km.

Drivers heading into Athens on the northbound section of Syngrou Avenue on Tuesday were struck in traffic jams stretching several kilometers due to roadworks.

Istanbul is Europe's second most congested city with drivers in Turkey's largest city spending an average of 53 percent extra travel time stuck in traffic, according to TomTom Traffic Index, a report detailing the traffic situation in 403 cities in 56 countries around the world in 2018.

The Coalition for Digital Economy, an independent organization that represents the major ride-sharing and e-hailing companies in Romania Uber, Bolt and Clever, launched the online petition #continuam, an initiative for everyone who wants modern urban transport services to continue working in Romania, the association said in a release.