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22 new natural gas buses start moving on the streets in Sofia, announced Sofia Municipality.

The machines are the "Yuotong" brand, low-floor, air-conditioned, with the possibility of using the Internet by the passengers.

Some of the buses will run on line 604. From mid-May, they will also serve lines 113, 384 and 75.

Sofia to be declared the European Capital of Intelligent Tourism in 2020.

As of 24th of April, testing begins for the new underground trains Inspiro made by Siemens. The testing will take place in the newly built third line, Sofia municipality said on 22nd of April. The trains will run in the section between "Depot Zamlyane" and "Krasno Selo" staion, reports BNT. 

Metropolitan Mayor Yordanka Fandakova said during the sixth annual meeting of the National Tourism Board that Sofia is increasingly crowded with tourist groups of foreigners as well as guests from the country.

In recent years we have restored 38 monumental busts, said Mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova during the official unveiling of the restored monumental bust of composer Pancho Vladigerov, Focus News Agency reports.

We will be launching 22 new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses in a matter of days, Mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova told bTV. "Next week we have to start the single tests of the metro trains, so that in the autumn we can launch the first section of the third underground line," Fandakova said.

,,There is still much to be done about the safety of children on the Internet.'' This is what the mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova said during the international conference "Building a cyber-resistant society, what can we do more about the safety of children and young people on the Internet?".
The event was organized by the Sofia Security Forum.

Some 10% of Sofia citizens do not use their cars in days with high levels of fine particulate matter, Mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova said during the official opening of the second edition of the European Air Quality Conference - SOFAIR, Focus News Agency reports.

A team of the Emergency Directorate of Sofia Municipality saved a wounded deer found in the Vitosha region. This was announced by the mayor Yordanka Fandakova in her Facebook profile.

The deer will be transferred to the Wildlife Rescue Center.

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