Sofia City News
Under the “Outside” program of Sofia Municipality for temporary art installations in an urban environment, a 13-meter interactive structure of LED displays, resembling a human figure, will be built. Using a special algorithm, the screens will be broadcasting footage from the cameras in Sofia and footage sent by citizens and guests of the capital, especially for the project “One Man.” You can send videos from your favorite places or events in Sofia to subprodukt@gmail.com.
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Only renovated buses will run on bus lines 63 and 66 for Vitosha Nature Park. The vehicles are Euro 6, suitable for mountain terrains, have 55 seats, 20 seats for standing passengers, and a luggage compartment in which passengers can leave large tourist backpacks. Along with the ten renovated Euro 6 buses launched on the lines last year, these two lines now have entirely renovated vehicles.
The shared electric bicycle program has been running for three years now in addition to the renovated buses. There is also a charging station for electric cars in the NHM parking lot.
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Sofia’s citizens and guests can take advantage of the pilot service for shared bicycles in the city. They can be rented and left at over 40 points in the city, most of which are already marked by the Sofia Municipality parking spaces for two-wheelers in the blue and green zone of Sofia. The rental price is BGN 1.50 for 30 minutes. Find detailed information on how the platform works and where bicycles are available in the application at www.nula.bike.
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Sofia Municipality will apply with a project proposal for improving waste management. The pilot project will include 1,000 households from the Vitosha and Bankya regions, which will be provided with containers with installed sensors to collect food and kitchen bio waste from households.
Specialized software will be used for the implementation of control and monitoring to record the movement and quantities of generated waste, both from each household and the total amount for processing and utilization in the municipal enterprise “SPTO.” The software will make it possible to track waste utilization results and determine the optimal routes of garbage trucks.
The aim is to examine the’ readiness of citizens living in suburban areas for separate collection of food waste through individual containers under the door-to-door system, widespread in many European countries. Removing this biowaste from the stream will reduce the amount of municipal waste and increase the recovery rate.
The project also includes the collection and recycling of used car tires.
Sofia Municipality will apply with the project proposal in partnership with the Norwegian Foundation INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NORWAY AS (IDN), part of the SINTEF Foundation – the largest research institute in Scandinavia.
