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Sofia Public Transport levies fines worth 1.5M leva in 2008
Photo: Nadezda Chipeva
Fines imposed on the Sofia Public Transport company for 2008 amounted to a total of 1.49 million leva, a company press statement was quoted as saying on August 4 2009.
Drivers have committed in excess of 23 000 violations – most of them pertaining to poor public hygiene in vehicles, the omission of bus or tram stops and flouting schedules as well as premature and dangerous closure of automatic doors.
The Sofia public, reportedly, had also complained repeatedly of "fast and risky driving, foul smell, and loud music emanating from the cockpit".
During the summer, passengers are complaining that the windows are closed or that there is no adequate ventilation whatsoever, while in the winter heating is broken down and buses are freezing cold.
According to the Sofia Public Transport press centre, "control check ups are conducted everyday to ensure the service and safety of the vehicles for the passengers," Investor.bg was quoted as saying.
Drivers have committed in excess of 23 000 violations – most of them pertaining to poor public hygiene in vehicles, the omission of bus or tram stops and flouting schedules as well as premature and dangerous closure of automatic doors.
The Sofia public, reportedly, had also complained repeatedly of "fast and risky driving, foul smell, and loud music emanating from the cockpit".
During the summer, passengers are complaining that the windows are closed or that there is no adequate ventilation whatsoever, while in the winter heating is broken down and buses are freezing cold.
According to the Sofia Public Transport press centre, "control check ups are conducted everyday to ensure the service and safety of the vehicles for the passengers," Investor.bg was quoted as saying.
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The man in the picture is brilliant.
Mark
you are right, but most Bulgarians would never admit that things are improving.
Maybe it's a good thing, but too much complaining can get you out of the real world very easily.
Sofia is cleaner, drivers are much, much more polite than they were 20 years a go - hell 5 years a go, while cars have multiplied.
One can walk on the sidewalks in the center, unlike just a few years ago when they were packed with parked cars, and drivers stop for pedestrians.
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Read the full comment Cars are much nicer and newer, and don't all belong to mutras, as before, but to many ordinary people.
And yes, buses are newer and yes cleaner.
Perspective is important.
Public transport today is light years ahead of the nasty buses and trams that i rode on when I first visited Sofia nearly 20 years ago.
While there is still plenty of room for improvement, the simple fact is that Sofia is NEVER going to become Zurich so expectations have to stay within reason.
Animals in the UK have better transport than people in BG so keep complaining.
Little by little things are changing.
... who's that guy? he seems happy to be riding the bus;)