List of highways in Bulgaria

The current Bulgarian motorway network

Hemus motorway

This list of highways in Bulgaria gives an overview of the motorway network in Bulgaria . The current total length of all highways ( Bulgarian : Автомагистрали ; singular Автомагистрала ) is 812 km. In addition, 135 kilometers of motorway are under construction. The planned motorway network, which consists of seven connections, is to be over 1300 km long. The legally prescribed maximum speed is 140 km / h.

toll

A toll in the form of an electronic vignette is levied in Bulgaria for the entire motorway network . The costs for an annual vignette are currently (2020) 97 leva (50 euros ), for the monthly vignette 30 leva (15 euros) and for the weekly vignette 15 leva (8 euros). The vignette can be purchased either online with bank transfer or credit card or on site from self-service machines with credit card or at cash registers with the national currency.

history

Motorway construction in Bulgaria between 1995 and 2015.

In 1944 there was a single paved road in Bulgaria, connecting the capital Sofia with the second largest city, Plovdiv . In 2008 there were around 476 km of motorways in Bulgaria. In 2008 Bulgaria was one of the EU states, along with Poland and Romania, that did not have a single completed motorway . In 2011 the complete Awtomagistrala “Ljulin” with a length of 19 kilometers was completed and opened. In 2013 the complete Awtomagistrala “Trakija” was completed.

future

According to current plans, the completion of the motorway to the Greek border should take place by 2023; 80% of the construction costs will be borne by structural programs of the European Union. Tenders are also running for the construction of a total of 68 km of the Hemus motorway, financing through loans is being considered, construction was to start in 2019, the route is expected to open in 2022. Construction of the first 16 kilometers of the motorway between the Serbian border and Sofia began in 2020, and the entire route is scheduled to open in 2021. In contrast, further construction of the motorway along the Black Sea coast is not expected in the medium term due to a lack of funding. The planned motorway route amounts to a total of around 1300 kilometers. The total costs are estimated at 3.3 billion euros.

List of highways

number	designation	course	overall length	km in operation	km under construction	km project	km planned	finished	last track opening
	Trakija (Bulgarian for Thrace )	Sofia - Plovdiv - Stara Sagora - Burgas	360 km	360	0	0	0	100%	in operation since 2014
	Hemus (Bulgarian for Balkan Mountains )	Sofia - Botevgrad - Veliko Tarnovo - Shumen - Varna	418 km	175	68	175	0	41.87%	September 2015
	Goiter	Pernik - Blagoewgrad - Sandanski - Kulata ( Greek border)	172 km	134.46	10.72	27.82	0	77.90%	December 2019
	Mariza	Tschirpan - Charmanli - Ljubimez - Svilengrad - Kapitan Andreewo ( Turkish border)	117 km	117	0	0	0	100%	in operation since 2015
	Cherno More (Bulgarian for Black Sea )	Varna - Obzor - Sunny beach - Nessebar - Burgas	108 km	10	0	0	98	9.71%	Further construction unknown
	Europe	Sofia - Slivnitsa - Kalotina ( Serbian border)	65 km	16.5	31.48	17.02	0	25.38%	April 2016
without number	without name	Veliko Tarnovo - Byala - Ruse ( Romanian border)	118 km	0	0	0	118	-	Start of construction unknown
overall length			1358 km	800.86 km	110 km	219.84 km	216 km	58.97%