Public Transport in Bulgaria - Sofia Metro, Su St. Kliment Ohridski Metro Station, Vasil Levski Stadium Metro Station, Musagenitsa Metro Station (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sofia Metro, Su St. Kliment Ohridski Metro Station, Vasil Levski Stadium Metro Station, Musagenitsa Metro Station, Mladost 1 Metro Station, Joliot-Curie Metro Station, Opalchenska Metro Station, Zapaden Park Metro Station, G.m.dimitrov Metro Station, Obelya Metro Station, Serdika Metro Station, Vardar Metro Station, Slivnitsa Metro Station, Konstantin Velichkov Metro Station, Lyulin Metro Station, Burgasbus. Excerpt: Sofia Metro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Sofia Metropolitan (Bulgarian:, Sofiysko metro) is the underground urban railway network servicing the Bulgarian capital Sofia. It is the first and only network of this kind in Bulgaria. As of September 7, 2009 it has been extended to 14 stations and a total length of 18.0 km. Planned since the 1960s, the building of Sofia Metro was not officially launched until the late 1990s mainly because the city did not experience an urgent need for an underground system and lack of funding. Another factor was the construction works depth being one of the oldest cities in Europe, Sofia contains many historical layers right underneath its very core. Evidence of antiquity can be clearly seen at the Serdika Station, a mixture of unearthed Thracian and Roman ruins and modern architecture. During the construction of the National Palace of Culture in 1981, two metro stations part of the future Line 2 and the tunnels connecting them were built. The construction of the system began from the areas that experience the most of the traffic in the capital city, where the largest streams of passengers form, reaching up to 40,000 at rush hour. Map of the Sofia Metro Serdika station The first section of line 1 was finished on 28 January 1998, with 5 stations and a length of 6.5 km from Slivnitsa Boulevard... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1483827