{"id":10285,"date":"2018-02-08T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=10285"},"modified":"2018-02-08T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:08:42","slug":"sofia-urban-environment-news-in-brief-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/sofia-urban-environment-news-in-brief-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia Urban Environment \u2013 News in Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10157 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shutterstock_649020520-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5573\" height=\"3136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shutterstock_649020520-1.jpg 5573w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shutterstock_649020520-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shutterstock_649020520-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shutterstock_649020520-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shutterstock_649020520-1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shutterstock_649020520-1-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shutterstock_649020520-1-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/shutterstock_649020520-1-133x75.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5573px) 100vw, 5573px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><b>New Routes to Vitosha Mountain<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sofia Municipality plans four new routes to different parts of Vitosha for pedestrians and cyclists. The routes are from Arena Armeec sports hall to Simeonovski lift, from Borisova gradina to Dragalevtsi lift, from South Park to Vitosha eco-trail and from Vazrazhdane Park to Knyazhevo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team of \u201cGreen Sofia\u201d at Sofia Municipality also works on a project for an electric bicycle station in the mountain as well as for the construction of bicycle paths to the end of \u201cBulgaria\u201d and \u201cPushkin\u201d boulevards, where there is a quick and easy access to Vitosha Mountain. The projects will be funded by EU programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>More Destinations from Sofia Airport<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wizz Air will increase the number of its routes from the country to 44 in 2018. The new destinations will include Athens, Nice, Lisbon, Malaga and Vienna. In Bulgaria, Wizz Air has carried more than 2.5 million passengers in 2017, an increase of over 40% for the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total passenger traffic for Sofia Airport rose by over 30% last year, which was the highest increase in Europe, according to the latest data. The airport services 36 airlines, which carried the record high 6.5 million people in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The New Road Connection between Brussels Blvd and Terminal 2 Officially Open<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In early January, Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova and Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski officially opened the new road connection between Brussels Boulevard and Terminal 2 of Sofia Airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The amount of the funds invested reaches BGN 13.7 million from the budget of the Ministry of Transport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new road is expected to ease the traffic in the area of Sofia Airport and the surrounding logistics and office centers. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today a new road that connects &quot;Brussels&quot; Blvd. and Terminal 2 at Sofia Airport was opened. It will ease the traffic from and to the airport and facilitate the access for passengers traveling by car. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sofiaairport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sofiaairport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/newroadtoTerminal2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#newroadtoTerminal2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/newroadtoSofiaAirport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#newroadtoSofiaAirport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5VECrrbGX7\">pic.twitter.com\/5VECrrbGX7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sofia Airport (@SOFIAirport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SOFIAirport\/status\/950699262794452993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Key Urban Spaces to Be Renovated<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sofia will receive BGN 41 million under &#8220;Regions in Growth\u201d Operational Program to modernize key urban spaces in central Sofia. The area around &#8220;St. Alexander Nevsky\u201d Cathedral, \u201cNational Assembly\u201d Square, \u201cTsar Osvoboditel Alexander II\u201d Monument, \u201cSt. Sofia\u201d Church, the building of the Synodal Palace, \u201cVasil Levski\u201d Monument, \u201cSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d Garden, the space between \u201cOborishte\u201d Street and the Central Military Club as well as \u201cGina Kuncheva\u201d Square are the areas that will undergo a renovation. The renovation plans also include &#8220;Graf Ignatiev&#8221; street with its &#8220;Giuseppe Garibaldi&#8221;, &#8220;P. R. Slaveikov&#8221; and &#8220;Patriarch Evtimii&#8221; squares, as well as selected streets around \u201cVitosha\u201d Blvd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The urban areas are to be connected by a common urban design. Procurements procedures are underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Routes to Vitosha Mountain Sofia Municipality plans four new routes to different parts of Vitosha for pedestrians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}