Avtomagistrala Lyulin
| Awtomagistrala A6 in Bulgaria | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Operator: | Bulgarian state | ||||||||||||||||||
| Overall length: | 19 km | ||||||||||||||||||
| of which in operation: | 19 km | ||||||||||||||||||
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| A6 at Pernik | |||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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The Awtomagistrala “Ljulin” or Awtomagistrala A6 ( Bulgarian Автомагистрала А6 Люлин Awtomagistrala A6 Ljulin , German “Ljulinautobahn” ) is a motorway in Western Bulgaria . It is named after the Ljuling Mountains it traversed .
It connects the Sofia ring road in the west of Sofia with the Awtomagistrala "Struma" (A3) in the south-west near Pernik . From there it continues in the direction of Thessaloniki to the Greek border. The entire length of the Ljulinautobahn is part of European route 79 from Košice in Slovakia to Thessaloniki in Greece .
The motorway junction at Pernik and thus the connection between the Awtomagistrala “Ljulin” (A6) and the Awtomagistrala “Struma” (A3) has been passable since December 17, 2010 . The entire motorway was opened to traffic on May 15, 2011.
The construction costs of € 148.5 million for the relatively short stretch of motorway can be explained by the difficult geographic conditions. Since the simpler crossing of the mountains between Vitosha and Ljuling mountains is already used by national roads 1 and 6, an alternative route through the middle of the Ljuling mountains was necessary.
The Ljulinautobahn replaces the only partially four-lane national roads 1 and 6 and the traffic coming from the south to Sofia is directed directly to the Sofia ring road. Before completion in 2011, national roads 1 and 6 were congested, especially on Sunday evenings, and were badly affected by the massive traffic.
