Let's start a thread about Bulgarian motorways and other highways.
I don´t get you exactly, verso.^ If they contain any traffic signs, let nothing stop you!
Few pics of Trakia highway from my short trip to Plovdiv.When I have some spare time I'll upload and post more pics
Some crapy asphalt
Sofia in the distance
yes I understand people have hobbies (between skyscrapers or highways, they're both equally bizarre to others), but to create a whole thread dedicated to Bulgarian highways seems strange to me. I understand some countries have awesome highways, with scenery and everything, but in Bulgarian highways, the little that there is, are rather boringbecause it is interesting. I am interested in all motorways around the world. Everyone it's own hobby eh.
Struma motorway will be the best and most picturesque motorway in whole Bulgaria, you will see the only really high Bulgarian mountains there and the quality will kick ass, i was blown away when i first travelled on. They worked extremly good and now it looks really modern, it also will have many bridges but Tunnels i don´t know, it won´t have that many but it still willbe a great motorway.Well, actually I think the A2 is a very interesting motorway, and very picturesque also, with tunnels and viaducts. It reminded me a lot of Austrian motorways when I traveled on it back in 2004... Well, almost: the asphalt was very bad... :runaway:
Anyway, it's a very great thing that Bulgaria built even those few motorway sections, and now the Struma Motorway - the investment should definitely pay off, in terms of environment and traffic fluidity. To the north, in Romania, our 2-laned "national roads" are now jam-packed with cars and trucks (not to mention the occasional horse-drawn cart or tractor), because our politicians were (and maybe still are) too stupid to see the importance of building a decent motorway system (or any motorway section at all for 10 straight years, for that matter).
Someone on this thread said that, ironically, Ruse is only connected to a foreign capital (Bucharest) via 4-lane road, and not to Sofia. Well, here in western Romania, my hometown is (almost) connected to Budapest by the M5 motorway (which is some 50 km away, near Szeged). In order to get to Bucharest, however, we have to drive some 500 km on crappy 2-lane roads that enter every god-forsaken village along the way.:bash:
Take a look here We have threads about virtually any country of the world. Much more extensive than on the SSC section. :banana:yes I understand people have hobbies (between skyscrapers or highways, they're both equally bizarre to others), but to create a whole thread dedicated to Bulgarian highways seems strange to me. I understand some countries have awesome highways, with scenery and everything, but in Bulgarian highways, the little that there is, are rather boring
The barriers of right and left side are only placed when it is dangerous and goes down at the side. You can see that on the Slovenian motorways aswell. Chris you are crazy, i saw you talking and posting pics of this thread in the netherlands snellwegen or how it was forum. but it´s good, you know more about Bulgarian motorways as some stupid Bulgarian kids.I have a question, about crash barriers, as i see in the above pics, in most of them the barrier is only placed in the center to divide the two lanes, but isn't there a barrier always placed in the right of the road as well? or is it just an old motorway that doesn't have em?
We have a lot of motorway which don't have barriers on both sides, because there is often enough space. I even favor motorways with no barriers on the right side, so you can park your car there if there is a breakdown. (parking on the emergency lane is extremely dangerous with our load of traffic on the roads).have a question, about crash barriers, as i see in the above pics, in most of them the barrier is only placed in the center to divide the two lanes, but isn't there a barrier always placed in the right of the road as well? or is it just an old motorway that doesn't have em?
It is correct man but i like more to travel on a modern even futuristic looking motorway than to travel on a rusty shit.as long as the signage and asphalt is okay, it's no problem to travel a motorway. I wouldn't care about the crash barrier too much. In Belgium, everything is rusty too. Bulgaria probably has better motorways than Belgium has a few years ago. Everything was crap there.