From Sofia to the end of the highway “Hemus” in 22 places there is a change of the speed regime. What highway is this? The new traffic management changes they want to introduce are made so that the road safety fund can be replenished. It currently has about BGN 500 million that have not been spent. This fund is used as a commercial entity and not to solve road safety problems. The money is used to buy cars and cameras to fill it up even more. This was said by the chairman of the Road Safety Institute, Bogdan Milchev, in the program “Offensive with Lyubo Ognyanov” on NOVA NEWS.
The expert pointed out that there are over 2000 road signs from Sofia to Varna. “This means that if we travel for five hours, our brain has to perceive about 6 characters per minute. There is no such brain that can take over such an organization of the movement, that's why we simply do not follow it, he further explained.
The main cause of serious accidents is human error, Milchev said. And he emphasized that the speed limit is wrong, the marking is done in such a way that we get tired and there is zero control over the use of mobile phones.
He believes that mobile applications that notify where traffic police cameras are placed on the road should be banned.
The expert said that we apply good practices from Europe, but we do not adapt them to the reality in the country.