Yablanitsa

As the March 3 national holiday weekend comes to a close, travelers are advised to brace themselves for heavy traffic on major roads and highways across the country.

The Road Infrastructure Agency (API) calls on drivers to drive carefully and obey the warning signs.

Due to the repair of the asphalt pavement, traffic restrictions on the Hemus highway in the direction of Varna are imposed.

A man has died and four are seriously injured in a car accident, BTA announced at the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior in Lovech.

,,With the construction of HEMUS Motorway, the country's GDP will rise by at least 10-20%.  This is what Prime Minister Boyko Borissov told journalists in the examination of the progress in the construction of the section between Yablanitsa and Boaza section of Hemus Motorway.

Realistic is the goal of the Hemus highway being ready by 2024, Regional Minister Petya Avramova said in a statement on the initiative of the GERB party "Europe in your home" on Saturday.

Around May-June will begin the laying of the asphalt in the section between Yablanitsa and Boaza from the Hemus highway and in autumn will be ready another 10 km from the motorway. The Chairman of the Board of Road Infrastructure Agency Georgi Terziyski has checked the progress in the construction of the section which is on the territory of Lovech region.

The State Motor Company will build 134 km of the Hemus highway. At the end of last year, a contract was signed between the company and the Road Infrastructure Agency for the construction of the section from the Boaza junction to the intersection with the Rousse-Veliko Tarnovo road.

Sofia. The government has allocated an additional BGN 35.3 million for the construction of the 9.3-km section of Hemus motorway between Yablanitsa and Boaza. The money will cover payments for completed construction works and consultancy services.

On May 1, the rehabilitation of the entrance of Burgas from the Trakia highway begins, announced Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Nikolay Nankov, quoted by the press center of the department headed by him. The stretch is about 8 km in length and is very bad condition. On May 1, the Minister will be on inspection of sites in Burgas.

The Mayor of the Municipality of Teteven, Dr Madlena Boyadjieva, signed three contracts for providing a grant amounting to more than BGN 10 million with the State Fund "Agriculture".