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The whole country dawned on Sunday with a true winter, snowy and icy, in some places unpleasant due to the wind and ice conditions. The snowfall continued throughout the day, most significantly in the Rhodope region and in the extreme southeast regions.
The tightest restrictions were in the Blagoevgrad region, where the most snow fell, and in some places the highway. “Current“It was frozen. The Highway Agency urged not to hit the road if possible.
By the end of the afternoon Greece partially lifts the ban on vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tons at the Kulata-Promaho border crossingn “. Ilinden-Exohi remains closed to all cars.
The main road arteries in the Blagoevgrad region are passable in winter conditions.
Restrictions imposed by the Greek authorities at border crossings with Bulgaria due to low temperatures and difficult road conditions have resulted in miles of heavy truck convoys freeway “Struma ” before the border checkpoint “Kulata”.
For more than a day, the carriers stayed in the cabins of their trucks, most of which were registered abroad.
At 16:30, the border authorities of our southern neighbor lifted the ban on the entry of trucks into Bulgaria. However, only trucks to Thessaloniki and Athens can enter Greece. This continues to create problems in the border control area, as many carriers are forced to return.
Most of the main arteries in the area are passable and unrestricted. The prohibition of the movement of trucks over 12 tons in Passage of the Papaz chair on the Gotse Delchev-Katuntsi roadas only there it continues to snow.
Dthe movement of vehicles over 12 tons is temporarily restricted on the road from Kyustendil to the Geshevo border checkpoint, due to the “suspension of North Macedonia”, reported by API on Sunday afternoon.
Traffic in the urban conditions of Sofia was also difficult. Most of the central streets and boulevards were not cleaned in the first hours, but then the companies managed to start cleaning the neighborhoods as well.
The road to the Golden Bridges area in Vitosha Park is open to traffic and buses to ski schools must have chains. In Sofia, the main roads were completely cleared, the municipality said. From there they say that the work of the companies continues in the neighborhoods.
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